Jan 24, 2023 | Olympic ESD 114, ESD 123, NWESD 189, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
“Teaching climate change is very emotional, and helping students embrace those emotions is vital,” shared a teacher attending EarthGen’s newest training, Climate Grief and Creative Expression. This training is designed to equip teachers with skills...
Jan 11, 2023 | NWESD 189, Teaching for the Climate Collaborative (TCC)
On a beautiful fall morning in October, twenty-three educators joined the Teaching for the Climate Collaborative at Alluvial Farms in Whatcom County. The tour showcased local engineering solutions the farm institutes to mitigate the effects of climate change. Teachers...
Nov 21, 2022 | NWESD 189, Pacific Education Institute
How do you stop a beach from eroding? What do city planners need to consider to save their cities from sea level rise? These are just two of the questions teachers from NWESD 189 tackled at a November workshop with Pacific Education Institute (PEI) FieldSTEM...
Oct 5, 2022 | NEWESD, ESD 105, ESD 112, PSESD, ESD 123, NCESD 171, NWESD 189, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
Teacher Casey Jones’ family includes migrant farmworkers, whose lives are directly affected by climate change and social injustice. The students at Rowena Chess Elementary School where Casey teaches also see the effects of these twin crises in their daily lives....
Sep 7, 2022 | NWESD 189, Pacific Education Institute
Pacific Education Institute (PEI) began a new school year of ClimeTime workshops with Northwest ESD in Anacortes! On August 3, FieldSTEM Coordinators Tressa Arbow, Molly Griffiths, and Amy Keiper led a workshop for 20 K-12 educators eager to learn about PEI’s...
Jun 22, 2022 | ESD 112, PSESD, NWESD 189, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
When Anacortes Middle School teacher Tasha Kirby had her class make applesauce last fall, she wasn’t teaching home economics. She was using locally grown apples to help her students make the connection between climate and the food they eat. Food is central to life,...
Nov 9, 2021 | NEWESD, ESD 105, ESD 112, Capital Region ESD 113, Olympic ESD 114, PSESD, ESD 123, NCESD 171, NWESD 189
Between 2018 and 2021, Washington State Regional Science Coordinators and a tea of dedicated middle school science teachers engaged in field testing OpenSciEd instructional units to help inform the development of a complete Grades 6-8 open educational resource (OER)....
Oct 5, 2021 | NEWESD, ESD 105, ESD 112, Capital Region ESD 113, Olympic ESD 114, PSESD, ESD 123, NCESD 171, NWESD 189
Following our state’s three year participation in helping develop the nationally recognized Middle School OpenSciEd materials, Washington State high school science teachers are stepping up to aid development of OpenSciEd’s open educational resource...
