Nature and Conversation
for Adult English Language Learners
(free and children welcome)
Spring 2025
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Nature & Conversation for Adult English Learners
Practice English conversation skills. English Language tutors walk with us as we practice conversation, make new friends, and learn about nature together. Share tea and nature stories from our cultures. Please dress for the outdoors. Children are welcome. Programs led by Syndallas Baughman and Sacha Dansky.
To register and for more information contact [email protected].
Practice English conversation skills. English Language tutors walk with us as we practice conversation, make new friends, and learn about nature together. Share tea and nature stories from our cultures. Please dress for the outdoors. Children are welcome. Programs led by Syndallas Baughman and Sacha Dansky.
To register and for more information contact [email protected].
Sacha Dansky
Sacha is passionate about the natural world and education. While living in San Diego for the past 15 years, she designed elementary science curriculum for Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center. She was also a Naturalist/Field Guide for Mission Trails Regional Park, San Diego Audobon Society and other environmental and conservation organizations. She spent many happy hours with children exploring ecological reserves in and around San Diego. Sacha enjoys traveling, camping and exploring with her husband and two young kids. Having recently returned to Michigan, she is excited to continue sharing her love of the outdoors with the Coyotes!
Sacha is passionate about the natural world and education. While living in San Diego for the past 15 years, she designed elementary science curriculum for Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center. She was also a Naturalist/Field Guide for Mission Trails Regional Park, San Diego Audobon Society and other environmental and conservation organizations. She spent many happy hours with children exploring ecological reserves in and around San Diego. Sacha enjoys traveling, camping and exploring with her husband and two young kids. Having recently returned to Michigan, she is excited to continue sharing her love of the outdoors with the Coyotes!
Jordan Wyant comes to the Nature Learning Community with years of experience living and learning with young people outdoors. He has led conservation work projects for the Student Conservation Association in Detroit, the San Francisco Bay Area, Yosemite and North Cascades National Parks. Jordan has an M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon as well as an M.A. in Educational Studies from the University of Michigan. He is excited to learn alongside all the members of the Forest Village, and he hopes to foster a mindful and caring approach to relating with the natural world.
Syndallas Baughman grew up on the water and in the forests of Michigan and Florida and earned a B.S. in Biology at University of Michigan and M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. Along the way she’s camped and studied plants and pollinators in the Siskiyous in S.W. Oregon, swamps, forests and fields of Michigan, Kauai, coastal and desert California, and the California Sierra Nevada. She taught at El Cerrito Preschool Cooperative, learning from wise and loving mentors to step back and follow and support kids’ ideas. At Wildcat Community Free School she followed kids through creeks and forests, set up experiments, supervised the use of power tools, knives and fire, facilitated democratic decision making and mediated a lot of arguments about Pokemon Card trades. She’s planted native gardens with preschoolers to high school students, and camped all over the U.S.A. with her two teenage sons.
Syndallas spent much of the past decade at an automotive manufacturing plant where her responsibilities included developing accountable health and safety systems with teams of union leaders, production operators and supervision. She recently served on a Michigan State working group developing guidance for community centers and public events around COVID safety. She is currently earning her Secondary Teaching Certificate at EMU in Biology. She participates in consensus decision making with her neighbors at home at Great Oak Cohousing Community. The beautiful wild world is the place Syndallas wants to be! She loves sharing nature connection with people and other living things and you!
Syndallas spent much of the past decade at an automotive manufacturing plant where her responsibilities included developing accountable health and safety systems with teams of union leaders, production operators and supervision. She recently served on a Michigan State working group developing guidance for community centers and public events around COVID safety. She is currently earning her Secondary Teaching Certificate at EMU in Biology. She participates in consensus decision making with her neighbors at home at Great Oak Cohousing Community. The beautiful wild world is the place Syndallas wants to be! She loves sharing nature connection with people and other living things and you!
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