This fall 24 teachers from the ESD 113 region met to learn more about climate science for K-3 learners. The series included three 2-hour sessions. Topics included climate science connections for young learners, how to get students outside during distance learning, and...
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. PEIโs project, โSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS),โ is designed to strengthen teachersโ equitable climate science instruction through locally relevant storylines.
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards in the Puget Sound
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 Instituteโs FieldSTEM Coordinators Tressa Arbow,...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines Renewable Energy: Solar workshop (Eastern Washington)
During the week of October 19th, 2020, 18 teachers from Pasco School District attended aโฏthree-day online workshop,โฏSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Renewable Energy-Solar, with Pacific Education InstituteโsโฏFieldSTEMโฏCoordinator Mike Nepean and Faculty...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines Renewable Energy: Solar workshop (Western Washington)
During the week of October 19th, 2020,โฏ17โฏteachers fromโฏthe Puget Sound region attended aโฏthree-day online workshop,โฏSolutions Oriented Learning Storylines:โฏRenewable Energy-Solar, with Pacific Education InstituteโsโฏFieldSTEMโฏCoordinatorsโฏMolly Griffiths, Tressa Arbow...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards
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 Instituteโs FieldSTEM Coordinators Julie...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines Writing Workshop: Coastal Hazards
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...
Distance Learning for the Birds
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...
Writing Solutions Oriented Storylines: Focus on Solar Energy
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...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines Fire: Forest Management and Skills
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 Instituteโs FieldSTEM Coordinator, Mike...