Jul 30, 2024 | Project Portraits
Climate Educator Book Club ANCHORING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT CLIMATE LEARNING LOOKS LIKE Overview The Climate Educator Book Clubโs book study is designed to flexibly support teams of interdisciplinary Kโ12 educators from schools and districts across Washington in...
Jul 30, 2024 | Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water and the Environment Classroom, NEWESD 101 Classroom
What was tried in the classroom? Together towards the end of the school year, Crystal Fissler-Jones and myself, Tabatha Adaszewski, introduced a new climate-focused section into our school library. The big idea was that we both were gaining exposure to climate texts...
Jul 23, 2024 | PSESD, IslandWood
Guided by teachers participating in IslandWoodโs โCommunity-Centered Climate Actionโ teacher professional learning course, students make a change in their school community. At Emerald Heights Elementary, Karrie Coombe and Chantal Fleckโs students took on a global...
Jul 19, 2024 | Front and Centered, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools), IslandWood, Pacific Education Institute
The Community Education in Action program is a collaborative series of workshops to exchange ideas and promote the co-creation of climate justice and environmental justice educational resources, using the Just Transition framework as a guiding model. Front and...
Jul 17, 2024 | Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment
From February to May 2024, 23 K-12 teachers from the Spokane area met to learn about different climate topics and how to teach climate solutions in their own classrooms. The workshop, hosted by the Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment, included...
Jul 17, 2024 | Pacific Education Institute
โA group of teachersโ walks into a barโ sounds like the setup for a groan-worthy joke, probably involving a pun. However, if the teachers in question just finished PEIโs Asynchronous Food Waste workshop, they might just be on a research mission. We hear you scoffing...
Jul 15, 2024 | NEWESD Project Portraits
Climate Literacy in the Classroom Enhancing Climate Science Education in Spokane Overview The Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment launched the Climate Literacy Fellows Program in 2021 in response to Spokane Public School studentsโ demands for...
Jul 8, 2024 | EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools) Project Portraits
Earthgen’s STEM Seminars Through Time Intensive, all-day workshops, were a unique learning experience. Overview STEM Seminars have been part of EarthGenโs ClimeTime offerings since 2018. These training opportunities have been available to K-12 teachers, starting...
Jul 1, 2024 | EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
Last fall, EarthGen hosted a teacher training that explored the connections between climate change and food waste. Due to its success, EarthGen ran two additional cohorts for eastern and western Washington educators this spring. Educators learned from Kat Huybers, a...
Jul 1, 2024 | PSESD, Pacific Education Institute
From February through May this spring, 25 teachers from Pierce, King, and Snohomish counties met virtually to discuss the principles and practices of Robin Wall Kimmererโs seminal book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Wisdom of...
