These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
Puget Sound ESD works with school district science leaders and regional community-based organizations (CBOs) to bring climate science concepts through NGSS-aligned, phenomena-based teaching to students across the region. Our greatest area of leverage is the science leaders and teacher leaders in our local school districts who can engage greater numbers of colleagues in racially just, solutions-oriented climate science learning and teaching.
During the 21-22 school year, educators Dave Ketter and Lisa Eschenbach worked with science & social studies teachers at Bellingham High School to replicate elements of the Washington Climate Assembly during a civics unit. As with the Washington Climate Assembly,...
Teacher Casey Jonesβ family includes migrant farmworkers, whose lives are directly affected by climate change and social injustice. The students at Rowena Chess Elementary School where Casey teaches also see the effects of these twin crises in their daily lives....
On August 26th, 2022, 38 Rising Star Elementary School staff jumped on a bus to headed to Bainbridge Island! The staff trip was a part of IslandWoodβs Focus School partnership with Rising Star Elementary centered on helping students across grades make connections...
What difference does it make if you have access to trees in your neighborhood or schoolyard? Puget Sound ESD (121) teachers learned about the immense benefits trees provide in an August workshop with Pacific Education Institute (PEI) FieldSTEM Coordinators Tressa...
We kicked off our Localizing Amplify Science Working Group with participants on our Bainbridge Island campus during the first week of August! Educators from all over Puget Sound were at IslandWood to begin a year-long collaboration to enhance the nationwide Kβ8...
During the 21-22 school year, Winds & Waters, led by Sui-Lan Ho'okano provided a monthly field experience in partnership with the Muckleshoot Tribe for 15 members of the Puget Sound ESD's Educators of Color Leadership Collaborative. This is Sui-Lan's story of the...
For many people, the word "infrastructure" suggests images of roads, buildings, power supplies, and the like. But what if we could reframe our thinking so that our idea of infrastructure includes trees and forests? Educators in Puget Sound ESD (121) recently explored...
When Anacortes Middle School teacher Tasha Kirby had her class make applesauce last fall, she wasnβt teaching home economics. She was using locally grown apples to help her students make the connection between climate and the food they eat. Food is central to life,...
Nehemias Chalma, Compost Facility Manager at Natural Selection Farms, spoke to teachers in both English and Spanish cohorts about using compost to support healthy soil. Where does good food go bad? This question gave educators in ESD 105, NCESD, and PSESD something to...