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. PEIโs project, โSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS),โ is designed to strengthen teachersโ equitable climate science instruction through locally relevant storylines.
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...
During February 2021, 26 middle school and high schoolโฏeducatorsโฏfromโฏacross the ESD 113 regionโฏattended aโฏthree-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Fire for Secondary Educators, with Pacific Education InstituteโsโฏFieldSTEMโฏCoordinatorsโฏHattie...
During the 2020-2021 school year 28 educators from the ESD 113 region met over the span of five sessions to learn more about climate science, teaching students outdoors and crafting 5E lessons. Information about the first three sessions of this series can be seen in...
During the week of February 8th, 2021,โฏ19โฏteachers from tenโฏCentral and Eastern Washington school districts attended aโฏthree-dayโฏonline workshop,โฏSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines:โฏRenewable Energy-Solar, with Pacific Education InstituteโsโฏFieldSTEMโฏCoordinator...
During the week of February 8th, 2021, 22โฏteachersโฏfromโฏnine districtsโฏacrossโฏWashingtonโฏattended aโฏthree-dayโฏonline workshop,โฏSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines:โฏFood Wasteโฏfor Bilingual Teachers, with Pacific Education InstituteโsโฏFieldSTEMโฏCoordinatorโฏMolly...
During the week of January 25th 2021, 24 teachers from 12 school districts across Washington state attended aโฏthree-dayโฏonline workshop,โฏSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards, with Pacific Education InstituteโsโฏFieldSTEMโฏCoordinators Karen Lippy and...
During the week of December 10th, 2020, 23 teachers from nine districts across Washington attended aโฏthree-dayโฏonline workshop,โฏSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Food Waste for Bilingual Teachers, with Pacific Education InstituteโsโฏFieldSTEMโฏCoordinator Hattie...
The Washington state program ClimeTime, which is facilitated by the stateโs nine Education Service Districts (ESDs) and community partners, was recently cited as a popular and effective model for educator education in climate science. The Journal of Science Policy and...
During the week of December 7th, 2020, 27 educators from six districts across the Eastern Washington region attended aโฏthree-day online workshop,โฏSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Fire, with Pacific Education InstituteโsโฏFieldSTEMโฏCoordinators Mike Nepean and...