Success Stories
Connecting Lessons of COVID and Climate Change
A new virtual training, COVID and Climate Change helps teachers explore the relationships among climate change, COVID, and social injustice. This professional learning workshop, a collaboration between EarthGen and ESD 112, was first offered on January 23 and attended...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Solar in Central Washington
During the week of February 8th, 2021, 19 teachers from ten Central and Eastern Washington school districts attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Renewable Energy-Solar, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinator...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines- Food Waste for Bilingual Teachers (February 2021)
During the week of February 8th, 2021, 22 teachers from nine districts across Washington attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Food Waste for Bilingual Teachers, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinator Molly...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards in Washington
During the week of January 25th 2021, 24 teachers from 12 school districts across Washington state attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinators Karen Lippy and...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines- Food waste for Bilingual Teachers
During the week of December 10th, 2020, 23 teachers from nine districts across Washington attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Food Waste for Bilingual Teachers, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinator Hattie...
ClimeTime cited in leading science journal
The Washington state program ClimeTime, which is facilitated by the state’s 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...
Connecting Agriculture and Climate Change in Eastern Washington
Professional learning forms community and educators made connections in more ways than one at the recent Washington Green Schools’ STEM Seminar: Agriculture and Climate Change, which was held over three afternoon sessions in October and November. Twenty-six educators...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Fire workshop
During the week of December 7th, 2020, 27 educators from six districts across the Eastern Washington region attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Fire, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinators Mike Nepean and...
Using NGSS to Investigate STEM Systems
High School teachers from Eastern Washington started the new year off with a bang! On January 5th teachers came to learn about the systems and the “Invisible Forest”. The evening started with Anne Thompson. Anne is a Research Assistant Professor in the Biology...
Climate Science Learning for K-3 Teachers
This fall 24 teachers from the ESD 113 region met to learn more about climate science for K-3 learners. The series included three 2-hour sessions. Topics included climate science connections for young learners, how to get students outside during distance learning, and...