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School programs

Leslie Science and Nature Center field trips are both fun and engaging for the students in my classroom. I appreciate that LSNC's programs are designed to provide hands-on learning experiences based on my classroom's curriculum.
- Aaron Padgen-Soucy, 2nd grade teacher at Mitchell Elementary

Education

An environment-based education movement—at all levels of education—will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world. ― Richard Louv