Feb 13, 2020 | Pacific Education Institute
February 4th through 6th, a dozen educators from around the state gathered in the Pacific Education Institute’s Olympia offices to create Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines that will engage Washington students on the topic of climate science. With input from...
Dec 19, 2019 | Pacific Education Institute
On December 9th and 10th, more than a dozen educators attended the Pacific Education Institute’s two-day workshop at the Water Resources Education Center in Vancouver to learn how to pilot a Solutions Oriented Learning Storyline on Food Waste. Based on research from...
Nov 8, 2019 | ESD 123, Pacific Education Institute
Educational Service District 123 and Pacific Education Institute partnered to bring the Food Waste Storyline to the Tri-Cities at the REACH Museum. The teachers began by learning about how indigenous people of Washington view food, and how those views could inform...
Oct 30, 2019 | Capital Region ESD 113, Pacific Education Institute
On October 23rd, 34 3rd-5th grade educators from the South Sound and beyond gathered in Tumwater at the ESD 113 facility to attend the first in a series of “Locally Relevant Climate Science” workshops put on by that agency and the Pacific Education...
Oct 18, 2019 | Pacific Education Institute
For two days this month (October 9th and 10th), 10 educators learned about the role of regenerative agriculture in Washington’s key industry and its contribution to climate resiliency. PEI’s Central FieldSTEM Coordinator Megan Rivard led attendees in...
Oct 16, 2019 | Pacific Education Institute
On September 19th and 20th, 18 formal and informal educators attended PEI’s two-day workshop at the Salmon Center in Belfair to learn about erosion and food waste storylines that address climate change. Each of these incorporates NGSS aligned 3-Dimensional...
Oct 10, 2019 | Pacific Education Institute
For two days last month (September 26th-27th), 23 educators from around the South Sound gathered at Washington State University’s Allmendinger Center in Puyallup to take a deep dive into the role of Washington’s forests in climate change resiliency....
Sep 23, 2019 | Pacific Education Institute
Over the course of three days (August 19th-21st), half a dozen educators from around the state joined Pacific Education Institute staff in Castle Rock to write curriculum on fire science, with the goal that they will help facilitate PEI workshops on this topic during...
