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ECO (Every Child Outside) Madison, formerly called Madison Area Green & Healthy Schools Summit, is affiliated with Green & Healthy Schools Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education.
2026 Updates
The ECO Madison team is in the process of collaborating with more local organizations to restart planning for our next Summit/educational opportunities -- dates/locations/partners TBD.
In the meantime, we will be updating this page with related events that may interest previous Summit speakers, exhibitors, and attendees.
Interested in joining the planning team? Please contact communications@ecomadison.org.
Various days/times
Madison area
Check out upcoming Nature Everywhere offerings at the Madison Public Library, other nature-related events, and more resources for educators and families here.
July 11, 2026
9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday
Lussier Family Heritage Center, Madison
Join Dane County for an Environmental Fun Fair located on the grounds of our Lussier Family Heritage Center facility. This FREE event will be full of hands-on, sensory activities centered around nature, outdoor recreation, and science. This is an inclusive event appropriate for ALL ages and abilities!
August 7, 2026
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday
Milwaukee
The conference is an opportunity to hear inspirational stories, connect with curricular and funding resources, and learn how schools in the Milwaukee area are removing asphalt and enhancing their schoolyards with outdoor classrooms, improved recreation, arts, green infrastructure, and project-based learning. General registration rates are $60/person. Register here to attend.
Nature As A Classroom:
Exploring Madison's Natural Spaces
Nature As A Classroom:
Exploring Madison's Natural Spaces
September 19, 2026
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday
Madison
This professional development event for Madison Metropolitan School District middle and high school educators is held in partnership with Nature Everywhere Madison Region and Madison School & Community Recreation at Olin Park, Lake Monona, and Wingra Creek. Register through the MMSD portal. Organizers hope to open this event up to a wider audience in the future. This opportunity will be free for participants and they will receive PAC credits for their attendance.
The 2025 Nourishing Minds, Sustaining Futures Summit (formerly the Madison Area Green and Healthy Schools Summit: Embracing Nature Connection and Outdoor Learning for ALL) featured student-led projects, nationally recognized voices on food justice, and hands-on indoor and outdoor learning opportunities, exploring how equitable food systems, sustainability and school-based initiatives can work together to create greener, healthier learning environments. Participants also had opportunities to connect with each other and community organizations. Our 2025 keynote speakers featured 40 Acres & A Mule Project founder and chef Adrian Lipscombe and Madison Public Library’s 2024 Naturalist-in-Residence and farmer Alex Booker.
The 2025 Nourishing Minds, Sustaining Futures Summit (formerly the Madison Area Green and Healthy Schools Summit: Embracing Nature Connection and Outdoor Learning for ALL) featured student-led projects, nationally recognized voices on food justice, and hands-on indoor and outdoor learning opportunities, exploring how equitable food systems, sustainability and school-based initiatives can work together to create greener, healthier learning environments. Participants also had opportunities to connect with each other and community organizations. Our 2025 keynote speakers featured 40 Acres & A Mule Project founder and chef Adrian Lipscombe and Madison Public Library’s 2024 Naturalist-in-Residence and farmer Alex Booker.
ECO Madison was thrilled to deepen the summit’s focus on food justice education through a collaboration with REAP Food Group. Over the last two years, REAP Food Group, alongside educators at East High, Capital High, and Shabazz High, have connected students to food justice initiatives led by leaders in the local food system.
ECO Madison was thrilled to deepen the summit’s focus on food justice education through a collaboration with REAP Food Group. Over the last two years, REAP Food Group, alongside educators at East High, Capital High, and Shabazz High, have connected students to food justice initiatives led by leaders in the local food system.
We gather on occupied Ho-Chunk Land
We acknowledge that in Madison, WI, we occupy the ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk People who were forcibly removed by the U.S. Government from this area they call Teejop (day-JOPE). We honor their history in and caretaking of this place, as well as the continued importance of our Indigenous community members today.
"Outdoor learning is the best part of my week! It is how I feel and what I hear so often year after year from students and families. I have been teaching in Kinder-2nd grade for the past 22 years and always try to include one part of my week with students focusing on nature and the world around us. I can successfully find a way to fit outdoor learning into literacy, science, or social studies and will continue to advocate for students to have opportunities outside."
"Outdoor learning is the best part of my week! It is how I feel and what I hear so often year after year from students and families. I have been teaching in Kinder-2nd grade for the past 22 years and always try to include one part of my week with students focusing on nature and the world around us. I can successfully find a way to fit outdoor learning into literacy, science, or social studies and will continue to advocate for students to have opportunities outside."
- Angie Mortensen, Midvale Elementary, Grade K Bilingual
- Angie Mortensen, Midvale Elementary, Grade K Bilingual
Come together with educators in the Madison area to explore resources and ideas to support outdoor learning, food justice, and local agriculture!
Come together with educators in the Madison area to explore resources and ideas to support outdoor learning, food justice, and local agriculture!
Questions? Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Contact communications@ecomadison.org.
Questions? Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Contact communications@ecomadison.org.
With gratitude to our sponsors:
With gratitude to our sponsors:
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