These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
North Central ESD implements Climate Science and NGSS Professional Learning to area educators by leveraging collaboration opportunities among NCESD staff, community-based organizations, and other regional ESDs. The collaboration efforts extend to building teams of teachers that work together to create authentic climate science experiences for their students.
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...
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...
Adults usually try to reduce kids’ screen time, but when COVID-19 closed schools to in-person learning last spring, schools had no choice but to move classes online. With little experience in remote instruction, teachers have been challenged to get kids actively...
"Wow, what an amazing workshop!! Loved all the GLAD strategies used and the voices of hope shared to teach about such a critical topic!" is just one piece of feedback received after the latest 3-day Voices of Hope GLAD Unit workshop. The event was held at Educational...
This fall students at Cascade High School in Leavenworth have been studying what the large scale disappearance of American Pikas from regions experiencing warmer summers and decreased winter snowpack can tell us about energy and matter in the environment and the...
August 13th through the 15th saw the hustle and bustle of over 250 teachers participating in the 2019 NCESD STEM Summit. The event was held at the Wenatchee Convention Center in downtown Wenatchee. The Summit offered over 100 different STEM related sessions ranging in...
NCESD 171 hosted Environmental Chemist and Whitman Professor, Frank Dunnivant for a seminar and Q&A sessions with educators on Wednesday, March 20th. More than 50 attended the seminar to hear about the complex environmental issues people have successfully...
10th grade students in Molly Ravitz's class are using a unit developed by local teachers around local phenomenon. Students are testing out their lab design to investigate the insulating properties of snow and its effect of sub-talus temperature in the winter in order...
On January 17th, twenty 4th grade teachers learned about the new Smithsonian module on Earth science. These new units are NGSS aligned and these teachers will be able to share their learning with other teachers as well as being prepared to teach the unit.