Everything we do is interconnected.
Here’s how.
We play and learn on stolen land, taken from Indigenous people.
We gather where racist flyers were once distributed.
We are all living during climate change.
We respect all genders. Because OWL is mostly kids and kids get it.
OWL recognizes the intersectionalities of living and learning in todays world. Students work for change in developmentally appropriate ways.
We painted a storm drain mural
OWL partnered with Ripple Effects and an amazing local artist, Sonya Sankaran. We collaboratively designed and painted this mural near Hoyt Park. OWL students learned about storm water pollution and this mural is one step towards creating awareness about our role in the health of our lakes. It was both an opportunity for education and civic action, and ART! -Wednesday OWL, May 2024
We plant seeds. (or, scatter seeds)
Working together with volunteers and the city, we helped by spreading a cover crop to help with erosion and soil loss behind the school where we meet.
-Monday OWL, March 2024
We clean up
OWL students playfully worked as they picked up these 2 buckets worth of garbage at a park we meet each week.
-Monday OWL, March of 2023
We Acknowledge the Land
OWL students acknowledge that the land that we meet on is the ancestral and contemporary land of the Ho-Chunk. Students often lead acknowledgements with their own knowledge, feelings, and questions.
Monroe Street Anti-Racism Project (MoSAP)
OWL students helped to raise money to support MoSAP’s recent project of a mural. MoSAP “uses public art to inspire action toward social justice and racial equity.”
Nature programming is for everyone, not just those who can afford it. Donate to the OWL Scholarship Fund by adding this to your cart at check out. By contributing, you are helping to improve OWL programs.
Just like in nature, our diversity makes us stronger! Thank you!
Scholarship Fund
And much like any organization or individual, OWL has intentions and room to grow and learn and be better inhabitants of both our community as well as our earth. Please feel free to reach out if you have any ideas or connections for OWL relating to environmental justice, social justice, racial justice, land justice, and more.