Ryan is a web weaver and a bringer of people and ideas. Ryan is mentoring two Graduate School of Social Work and Regenerative Learning Ecology apprentices for the 2025-2026 school year who have Outward Bound Expedition leading and Case Management Therapy experience. You can read more about the team and see the teaching staff grow here.
Current community partners include Joe Shoemaker Elementary School, La Luz Middle School, The Rock Center, Boston PK-8, University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work and Denver Parks and Recreation.
Ryan has taught and facilitated ecological literacy for over 25 years both inside and outside the formal classroom with ages 3 through 18. He has also worked with adults in school leadership and as a community organizer for the last 11 years and is excited about Mycelium Cooperative as a multi-generational regenerative futures community of learning. He reveres the interweaving of life and organizes for climate justice transitions addressing the human induced Sixth Mass Extinction. He aims to help students and society participate in the global movement to protect life on Earth, sometimes listening to “youth wisdom” before listening to “adults”. For the last several years, while working as an Ecological Literacy Specialist in Denver Public Schools and in Salt Lake City Public Schools, he has been a researcher and practitioner of Land Based and Nature Based Pedagogy and/or Forest Schools and also creating modified Forest School programming for public schools.
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