The intent of Playing by the Rules|Colorado is to encourage greater understanding of the regulatory framework for outdoor learning environments in four types of child care facilities regulated by the state of Colorado—child care centers, family child care homes, neighborhood youth organizations, and school-age child care centers.
Provided by the Natural Learning Initiative, this practitioner’s guide hopes to help designers and child care professionals navigate standards or rating systems that are relative to outdoor programs in early learning spaces.
Authors: Jost, Daniel; Cosco, Nilda; & Moore, Robin.
Published in 2019 for Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) Colorado: an initiative of the National Wildlife Federation in partnership with the Natural Learning Initiative, North Carolina State University.
To view the brief in full, click here.
About the org: The Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) was founded in 2000 with the purpose of promoting the importance of the natural environment in the daily experience of all children, through environmental design, action research, education, and dissemination of information. NLI is a research and professional development unit at the College of Design, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
