85. Outdoor Education Job: How Mariah Waters Created Her Own Opportunity

Naturally Teaching Elementary: A Podcast for Teachers and Homeschool Families · Aug 31, 2026 · 24m

An outdoor education job seems to be hard to come by in this day-and-age. But would you believe me if I told you that there are people making their own jobs in the outdoor education field?

In today's episode, Mariah Waters explains how she saw an opportunity and seized it. She talks about presenting, accepting, and developing the outdoor education specialist position at a private independent school in Texas for the 25'-26' school year.

You'll definitely want to hit play to hear about how she proposed the idea, how she survived writing a year's curriculum for K-5 grade classes while teaching…