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.
During the week of November 2nd 2020, 23 teachers from nine districts across the Puget Sound region attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards, with Pacific Education Instituteβs FieldSTEM Coordinators Tressa Arbow,...
During the week of October 19th, 2020, 18 teachers from Pasco School District attended aβ―three-day online workshop,β―Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Renewable Energy-Solar, with Pacific Education Instituteβsβ―FieldSTEMβ―Coordinator Mike Nepean and Faculty...
During the week of October 19th, 2020,β―17β―teachers fromβ―the Puget Sound region attended aβ―three-day online workshop,β―Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines:β―Renewable Energy-Solar, with Pacific Education Instituteβsβ―FieldSTEMβ―Coordinatorsβ―Molly Griffiths, Tressa Arbow...
During the week of October 12th, 2020, 25 teachers from across the South Sound and the Olympic Peninsula attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards, with Pacific Education Instituteβs FieldSTEM Coordinators Julie...
During the week of August 10th, 2020, 12 educators from across western Washington joined Pacific Education Institute staff and faculty online to write Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines on the topic of coastal hazards. The goal was to create developmentally...
When ESD105 originally partnered with Pacific Education Institute and the Mount Rainier Institute to offer a professional development for secondary educators in June 2020, the idea was to take Yakima area workshop participants into the great outdoors and study the...
During the week of June 22nd, 2020, 16 educators from across the state joined Pacific Education Institute staff and faculty online to write solutions oriented storylines on solar energy, for first and fourth grades and middle and high school. The goal was to create...
During the week of June 9th, 2020, 30 middle school and high school teachers from across Washington attended an online workshop series, Solutions Oriented Learning Fire: Forest Management and Skills, with Pacific Education Instituteβs FieldSTEM Coordinator, Mike...
On May 29th, 2020, 25 nonformal educators from Western Washington came together online to discuss climate science in K-12 schools, climate science within their programs, and review PEIβs Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines on the topics of Regenerative Agriculture,...