Join funders to learn more about the exciting statewide efforts of Maine Outdoor School for All (MOSFA), a network of overnight outdoor education centers working together with Maine public schools to facilitate learning opportunities that empower our students, and their teachers, to create healthy, vibrant Maine communities. MOSFA is launching a campaign to fund a pilot that would provide three-day, two-night outdoor education experiences to 7,000 Maine students and professional learning to 700 of their teachers in 2025–26. The MOSFA educators leading these programs will become a pipeline of future public school teachers for Maine, helping to address historic teacher shortages. 

The Maine Outdoor School for All (MOSFA) initiative will reconnect middle school students to Maine’s outdoor heritage to:

• positively affect youth health and wellness, raising their connection to the outdoors and career aspirations; 
• promote workforce development among Maine’s youth in our state’s key industries — manufacturing, forest products, life sciences, marine/aquaculture, food/agriculture, outdoor recreation, and clean energy; and 
• meaningfully address Maine’s teacher shortages in 17 subject areas by providing a pipeline of MOSFA educators who could matriculate into Maine public schools

Presenters from the Maine Outdoor School for All network will present and field questions from 12pm to 1pm, followed by an optional funders-only discussion from 1pm to 1:30pm.

The presentation and Q+A will be recorded and shared with registrants after the info session.

Join funders to learn more about the exciting statewide efforts of Maine Outdoor School for All (MOSFA), a network of overnight outdoor education centers working together with Maine public schools to facilitate learning opportunities that empower our students, and their teachers, to create healthy, vibrant Maine communities. MOSFA is launching a campaign to fund a pilot that would provide three-day, two-night outdoor education experiences to 7,000 Maine students and professional learning to 700 of their teachers in 2025–26. The MOSFA educators leading these programs will become a pipeline of future public school teachers for Maine, helping to address historic teacher shortages. 

The Maine Outdoor School for All (MOSFA) initiative will reconnect middle school students to Maine’s outdoor heritage to:

• positively affect youth health and wellness, raising their connection to the outdoors and career aspirations; 
• promote workforce development among Maine’s youth in our state’s key industries — manufacturing, forest products, life sciences, marine/aquaculture, food/agriculture, outdoor recreation, and clean energy; and 
• meaningfully address Maine’s teacher shortages in 17 subject areas by providing a pipeline of MOSFA educators who could matriculate into Maine public schools

Presenters from the Maine Outdoor School for All network will present and field questions from 12pm to 1pm, followed by an optional funders-only discussion from 1pm to 1:30pm.

The presentation and Q+A will be recorded and shared with registrants after the info session.

Join funders to learn more about the exciting statewide efforts of Maine Outdoor School for All (MOSFA), a network of overnight outdoor education centers working together with Maine public schools to facilitate learning opportunities that empower our students, and their teachers, to create healthy, vibrant Maine communities. MOSFA is launching a campaign to fund a pilot that would provide three-day, two-night outdoor education experiences to 7,000 Maine students and professional learning to 700 of their teachers in 2025–26. The MOSFA educators leading these programs will become a pipeline of future public school teachers for Maine, helping to address historic teacher shortages. 

The Maine Outdoor School for All (MOSFA) initiative will reconnect middle school students to Maine’s outdoor heritage to:

• positively affect youth health and wellness, raising their connection to the outdoors and career aspirations; 
• promote workforce development among Maine’s youth in our state’s key industries — manufacturing, forest products, life sciences, marine/aquaculture, food/agriculture, outdoor recreation, and clean energy; and 
• meaningfully address Maine’s teacher shortages in 17 subject areas by providing a pipeline of MOSFA educators who could matriculate into Maine public schools

Presenters from the Maine Outdoor School for All network will present and field questions from 12pm to 1pm, followed by an optional funders-only discussion from 1pm to 1:30pm.

The presentation and Q+A will be recorded and shared with registrants after the info session.