These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
Pacific Education Institute (PEI) delivers high-quality professional development and consultation services for educators in equitable, locally relevant, career connected, outdoor STEM education. PEI’s project, “Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS),” is designed to strengthen teachers’ equitable climate science instruction through locally relevant storylines.
On March 12th and 13th, eighteen elementary school teachers learn about NGSS 3D assessment and utilizing FA tasks within the context of a research-based informal formative assessment cycle. The event was designed and delivered by ESD 114 and Pacific Education...
Students from Chewelah alternative school explored why food waste is listed as the 3rd most important thing humans can do globally to drawdown their contribution to greenhouse gasses. The students collected and measured their own food waste for one day, calculated the...
PEI Professional Development: Locally Relevant 3-D Climate Science for Drawdown Storyline Writing On August 1st, 15 educators from 9 school districts participated in a 3-day workshop with project partners PEI, Braided Education Consulting, Cinnamon Bear Enos, Abby...
Design Team meeting at PEI with Cinnamon Bear Enos joining by video conference and Kathryn Kurtz, Laura Tucker and Dave Ketter at the table. The 2-day Performance Task Design meeting was held at the headquarters of the Pacific Education Institute (PEI) in Olympia,...