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. Participants...
Partner stories
These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
Pacific Education Institute
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.
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Writing Workshop – Focus on Fire
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...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Forest Ecosystems Benefits – Carbon Sequestration
August 15th and 16th, in picturesque Battle Ground, 18 educators, along with 3 community partners, attended a Pacific Education Institute workshop on the role of Washington's forests in climate change resiliency. PEI faculty gave presentations on local anchoring...
PEI-hosted workshop ‘Locally Relevant 3-D Climate Science Storylines’, held on March 2nd at the Squaxin Island Tribe Museum
Participants began the PEI-hosted workshop ‘Locally Relevant 3-D Climate Science Storylines’, held on March 2nd at the Squaxin Island Tribe Museum, on a trail next to a lake that the Tribe created to cultivate traditionally-used native plant species. There, Tribal...
Olympic ESD 114 Elementary Storylines Project Hub #3
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...
Chewelah Students Explore Food Waste and present at the North American Association for Environmental 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...
Indigenous educators, climate literacy and NGSS specialists work with lead teachers to develop first drafts of Solutions Oriented Learning curriculum
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...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS)
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,...