Driven 2 Educate

Emma Huvos, an Outdoor Permaculturalist Educator, shares a bit about her background and philosophy for the concentration on nature and natural unbounded environments in early education. While in college, Emma began to explore and evaluate her past and current education. Despite being an accomplished conforming student who followed the structure rules achieving all of the goals and standards set forth in the traditional educational system she still felt unfulfilled. She realized a very large missing component in her life was her disconnection from nature. After graduation she accepted a position in at a charter school in Washington DC. For the first year, because of construction within the school, her students were not able to play outside or regularly experience education and play beyond the confines of the classroom. While doing her best to bring the outdoors in and grow plants taped to windows she knew this wasn't enough. Once construction was complete she was able to take her students the following year ou