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Most children spend more waking hours in school each day than with their parents. Educators can have a profound effect on students’ attentiveness and classroom performance by taking the following actions:

• Encourage school nurses and principals to include unstructured outdoor time, recess and environmental education as part of their daily curriculum.
• Advocate on the school district, county and state level for recess and outdoor time.
• Begin a safe routes to school program to encourage kids to bike and walk to school.
• Post outdoor activities and their benefits on school websites, such as Blackboard, with links to Be Out There resources.
• Encourage school counselors to include outdoor activities as examples of how to build social skills and confidence.
• Get your school involved in creating a National Wildlife Federation Schoolyard Habitat® or register your school as an Eco-School so students can engage in a variety of outdoor activities that help nature.