Nature-immersion pre-school and extended kindergarten, nestled in the forest in Birmingham, Alabama. Together, we are re-wilding childhood. 🦌
05/20/2026
We’re growing our team! ✨🌳✨ is looking for a few nature-passionate, littles-loving, wild-hearted leaders to guide our school for our first year.
We’re offering 15-hours a week of employment, Tuesday- Thursday, with ample time in the wild, weaving a community with teachers, families and the Earth.
Please connect with us on our website, or share with anyone you know who may be interested!
May the forest be with us!
05/12/2026
We're hiring! If you're a nature-loving, wildly compassionate, good-hearted responsible educator who wants to join our team for part-time work for our inaugural year, reach out to [email protected].
We're looking for two part-time (15 hours per week) lead teachers and 1 assistant.
This is a once-in-a -time opportunity to join Birmingham's first forest school on the ground floor-- and weave magic with us!
05/05/2026
Hello families! We are now officially onto a waitlist for our 2-4k class and have a few spaces left for our 5/6k group. If you have been meaning to enroll, now is the time! 🫶🏻
Wild Oaks is a child-led, inquiry-based school, held completely outdoors whose partnership is making@our inaugural year possible. We are centering play, family, Earth connection and JOY and we can’t wait to see you this fall.
Feel free to reach out here with any questions!
04/27/2026
Beloved future families! A reminder that our registration for 2026-2027 opens on FRIDAY morning, May 1 ✨🦌✨
We will have spaces for 24 littles, between ages 2.5 and 6, in two cohorts, and anticipate filling all spaces. Please have access to the app or desktop site, a $25 application fee, and relevant details for your child.
We are so looking forward to weaving these first two cohorts! Expect responses about acceptance by May 10. We will have a waiting pool for anyone who doesn’t get a space, and will continue to pull from it through the year of spaces open.
Here’s to re-wilding childhood in the Magic City!
Hello Wild Oaks families!
If anyone is a lawyer, or knows one personally, we would be forever grateful for an introduction for a couple business admin questions 🙂
Hello, families! Introducing you to Jane Mayer — the other co-founder and co-weaver of our school. Jane has spent the last decade learning from ancient, nature-based cultures and healing modalities and runs her own adult-oriented soul-focused healing practice here in town. A native of Birmingham, she is the mother of a two-year old who will attend Wild Oaks. We love you, Jane! ✨🦌🌳🦌✨
Our amazing co-creator and founder of one of the nation’s only nature-based occupational therapists for children, Magan Higgins Gramling! More of the details about Magan can be found on our website. We are so grateful for her tenacity, clarity, vision, and fortitude ✨🦌✨