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. PEI’s project, “Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS),” is designed to strengthen teachers’ equitable climate science instruction through locally relevant storylines.
For two days this month (October 9th and 10th), 10 educators learned about the role of regenerative agriculture in Washington's key industry and its contribution to climate resiliency. PEI's Central FieldSTEM Coordinator Megan Rivard led attendees in engaging...
On September 19th and 20th, 18 formal and informal educators attended PEI's two-day workshop at the Salmon Center in Belfair to learn about erosion and food waste storylines that address climate change. Each of these incorporates NGSS aligned 3-Dimensional...
For two days last month (September 26th-27th), 23 educators from around the South Sound gathered at Washington State University's Allmendinger Center in Puyallup to take a deep dive into the role of Washington's forests in climate change resiliency. Participants...
Over the course of three days (August 19th-21st), half a dozen educators from around the state joined Pacific Education Institute staff in Castle Rock to write curriculum on fire science, with the goal that they will help facilitate PEI workshops on this topic during...
August 15th and 16th, in picturesque Battle Ground, 18 educators, along with 3 community partners, attended a Pacific Education Institute workshop on the role of Washington's forests in climate change resiliency. PEI faculty gave presentations on local anchoring...
Participants began the PEI-hosted workshop ‘Locally Relevant 3-D Climate Science Storylines’, held on March 2nd at the Squaxin Island Tribe Museum, on a trail next to a lake that the Tribe created to cultivate traditionally-used native plant species. There, Tribal...
On March 12th and 13th, eighteen elementary school teachers learn about NGSS 3D assessment and utilizing FA tasks within the context of a research-based informal formative assessment cycle. The event was designed and delivered by ESD 114 and Pacific Education...
Students from Chewelah alternative school explored why food waste is listed as the 3rd most important thing humans can do globally to drawdown their contribution to greenhouse gasses. The students collected and measured their own food waste for one day, calculated the...
PEI Professional Development: Locally Relevant 3-D Climate Science for Drawdown Storyline Writing On August 1st, 15 educators from 9 school districts participated in a 3-day workshop with project partners PEI, Braided Education Consulting, Cinnamon Bear Enos, Abby...