These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve provides middle and high school teacher professional development workshops around climate science, ocean acidification, and data literacy.
Is erosion always bad? Eighteen teachers from eleven northwest school districts grappled with this question at an in-person Connecting Communities Through Wetland Education workshop in March, a collaborative effort between Padilla Bay Estuarine Reserve and PEI.โฏ The...
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...
On September 28th, 16 teachers and educators gathered at Cascade View Elementary School in Tukwila to participate in IslandWood's "NGSS in Action: Science in the Schoolyard" workshop. Together, they dove into discussions of "three dimensional" science learning, and...
This two-day workshop (March 1-2, 2019) for middle and high school teachers focused on connecting the causes and effects of climate change and ocean acidification. Students used local and regional online data to gain data skills, argue with evidence, and make...
Thirteen Middle and High School science teachers in the San Juan Islands learned about teaching climate change and ocean acidification on October 25-26. Padilla Bay educators led activities on carbon cycling and flow, climate change effects and solutions, and data...