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 IslandWoodโs Focus School partnership with Rising Star Elementary centered on helping students across grades make connections...
The topic of coastal hazards doesnโt often bring a smile to oneโs face, but 21 ESD 113 and Kitsap County educators brought their enthusiasm and passion for teaching to an August 8 workshop based on Pacific Education Instituteโs (PEI) Coastal Hazards Solutions Oriented...
On April 22, 2022, students from Spokane Public Schools, community organizers, and staff from Gonzaga University’s Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment gathered for an Earth Day demonstration. Student involvement in this event was organized by the...
Pacific Education Institute (PEI) began a new school year of ClimeTime workshops with Northwest ESD in Anacortes! On August 3, FieldSTEM Coordinators Tressa Arbow, Molly Griffiths, and Amy Keiper led a workshop for 20 K-12 educators eager to learn about PEIโs...
27 teachers from the greater Olympia area attended Summer Institute For Teachers at the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually Wildlife Refuge June 27th, 28th and 29th. The enthusiastic group dove into presentations from local professional, hands-on workshops and service-learning...
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 Kโ8...
Systems are Everywhere! Exploring Systems in Crosscutting Concepts Overview The Systems Are Everywhere! Workshop was developed and led by the Institute for Systems Biology in collaboration with the Puget Sound ESD. The workshop engaged K-12 educators from across the...
Climate Science through Chemistry Teaching OpenSciEd Unit 1 โThermal Energy in Our Worldโ Overview The rationale for this project is to support high school chemistry teachers for leading change, by: weaving climate science into core chemistry courses, per NGSS content...
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...
Upper elementary and middle school teachers across ESD 123 joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) fisheries experts and STEM education specialists to engage in a virtual, immersive, hands-on and collaborative learning experience. Together Teachers and...
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)...
