Jessica Walters

My approach to creating education systems is based in regenerative nurturing, a concept that interweaves meaningful relationship, neuroplasticity, cognitive science, and belonging. We know that the early years of life are a formative time and that how safe and loved children feel impacts their social emotional skills for the rest of their life. I create systems that honor the differences in each developing mind, and honor parents, caregivers and Earth as the first teachers in a child’s life.

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I decided to become a Early Childhood Educator after taking a class called Cognitive Development & Early Childhood Education, in which I learned a statistic that changed my life; a caregiver in a young child's life who is consistent 20% of the time can mitigate the impact of ACE risk factors in a child's brain development. My life path was carved by the knowing that if I could offer children love and safety in a classroom their lives would be forever changed. After working in traditional classrooms for four years I found myself leading and co-creating a land based education program on a farm in Boulder, CO. It is here that I learned about regenerative agriculture and interwove those concepts into creating a regenerative education system. It is my mission to empower adults worldwide to create sustainable, nurturing, exploratory spaces for children that are balanced in opportunities of freedom and respect. The greatest investment we can make in the world is in the future of our planet, the children.