OTF Presented Lindsay Beaton with the 2025 ‘Outdoor Adventures Educator Of The Year’ Award at Annual Benefit Concert in Dallas
DALLAS, TEXAS – APRIL 14, 2025– Lindsay Beaton of DeWitt Elementary School in DeWitt, Arkansas has been named the 2025 Educator of the Year by Outdoors Tomorrow Foundation. Lindsay was presented with this award at OTF’s Annual Benefit Concert featuring Shane Smith and The Saints on April 10, 2025 at Gilley’s in Dallas.
Founded in 2010 in Dallas, OTF’s K-12 outdoor education curriculum now serves 1550+ schools in all 50 U.S. states and internationally with more than 160,000 students enrolled annually. OTF’s Outdoor Adventures curriculum can be taught as a P.E. course, local elective or with agricultural science and wildlife management in private and public schools.
“I am honored to be named the Outdoor Tomorrow Foundation’s 2025 Outdoor Adventure Educator of the Year.” Lindsay goes on to detail her ultimate goal, “I want to leave a lasting legacy with my students by fostering a deep love for nature, encouraging them to engage in outdoor activities, and instilling the importance of conservation education. My hope is that they become lifelong movers, appreciating the outdoors and understanding the value of preserving it for future generations.”
Lindsay has been the Elementary Physical Education Teacher teacher at DeWitt Elementary School for 19 years and teaching from the Outdoors Adventures Curriculum since May of 2021.
“We are so proud to name Lindsay Beaton as the Outdoors Tomorrow Foundation’s 2025 Educator of the Year. Lindsay is providing a niche for students not involved in other extracurricular activities where they can learn both practical outdoor skills and an understanding of wildlife conservation,” said OTF’s Director of Education, Scot McClure.
Outdoor Adventures is a fun, interactive course where students are taught lifelong skills using an integrated, 40-unit curriculum comprising math, science, writing and critical thinking skills. The 400+ lessons cover lifelong skills including angler education, archery, hunter education, boater education, orienteering, survival skills, camping, outdoor cooking, challenge courses, backpacking, mountain bike camping, paddle sports, rock climbing, shooting sports, CPR/first aid and fauna, flora and wilderness medicine. OA teachers can pick units specific to their region and local ecosystems.
About Outdoors Tomorrow Foundation
The Outdoors Tomorrow Foundation is a public nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based in the Dallas, Texas area. OTF’s Outdoor Adventures K-12 curriculum may be taught in any public or private school, and is most often taught as a PE course. More than 28 million classroom hours of outdoor education have been taught since the program started.
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