PSESD

Collaborating for Ambitious Science Teacher Learning (CASTL)

CASTL is a partnership between Puget Sound ESD, Northwest ESD and Olympic ESD to engage teachers in the Ambitious Science Teacher (AST) framework and support their implementation of the AST practices through the examination of student work. CASTL Institutes are facilitated by teacher leaders who participated in a three-year, Math-Science Partnership grant focused on the AST framework. Teachers’ attending CASTL’s three-day institutes express gratitude for the opportunity to experience the NGSS through a local, climate science-related phenomena and work to apply this new understanding to an upcoming unit with students. They return for Reflective Planning Days where they examine student work to inform the next student learning activity.

Puget Sound Science Leadership Collaborative

The Science Leadership Collaborative is a partnership between Puget Sound ESD, the North Sound LASER Alliance and the South Sound LASER Alliance. District science leaders come together several times a year to work together around common interests (e.g. instructional practices, cultural competence, curriculum-assessment resources). Climate justice and Climate Proviso resources are being shared at this year’s meetings. Compelling phenomena in this work include “Why do people living less than one mile apart have nearly a 10-year difference in life expectancy?” and “How could the immigration of Europeans to the Americas have contributed to the Little Ice Age?”

Check out the SLC website to see how climate science is being integrated into their shared work.