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. PEIβs project, βSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS),β is designed to strengthen teachersβ equitable climate science instruction through locally relevant storylines.
Educators in southeast Washington joined Pacific Education Institute FieldSTEM Coordinators Megan Rivard and Amy Dawley for an adventure in solar energy this February. Through a series of three synchronous Zoom sessions and asynchronous tasks via Canvas, participants...
PEI FieldSTEM Coordinator interviewed Tara Clark for the workshop's virtual field trip. Mother Earth Farm manager, Tara Clark, shared that she left a film career in Los Angeles to work the land on behalf of her community. Pacific Education Instituteβs (PEI) first ever...
Workshop participants took on the role of trees and competed with each other for carbon, nutrients, and water. When Pacific Education Institute and two Central Washington Educational Service Districts thought about how to best serve the teachers in their region, an...
In late June 2021, 33 teachers from 16 Coastal and West Sound school districts attended a three-day hybrid workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Wetlands, with Pacific Education Instituteβs FieldSTEM Coordinators Karen Lippy and Julie Tennis and PEI...
During June 2021, 12 educators and Pacific Education Institute (PEI) staff worked together to adapt Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines on the topic of Regenerative Agriculture. The current Regenerative Agriculture storylines were created for eastern Washington...
During May 2021, 25 middle and high schoolβ―educatorsβ―fromβ―across Eastern and Central Washington attended aβ―three-day online workshop,β―Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines:β―Fire for Secondary Educators, with Pacific Education Instituteβs (PEI)β―FieldSTEMβ―Coordinator...
During the month of May 2021, 27 educatorsβ―fromβ―eight districtsβ―across the state attended aβ―three-day online workshop,β―Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Urban Forestry, with Pacific Education Instituteβs FieldSTEM Coordinators Molly Griffiths and Megan Rivard...
In early May 2021,β―29 teachers from nine school districts in Thurston, Pierce and Lewis countiesβ―attended aβ―three-day hybrid workshop,β―Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Wetlands, with Pacific Education Instituteβs FieldSTEM Coordinators Hattie Osborne and Karen...
During the months of March and April 2021, 10 educators from across Washington joined Pacific Education Institute staff and faculty online to write Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines on the topic of urban forestry. The goal was to create developmentally...