Partner stories

These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.

ESD 105

The focus of the work within the ClimeTime Proviso has been to leverage an existing collaborative effort of 21 School Districts and 3 private schools that are members of the ESD 105 Science Cooperative to implement NGSS-aligned instruction for the vast majority of the region’s K-5 students.

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Teachers Tackle Food Waste with PEI’s Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines

Mar 23, 2022 | ESD 105, PSESD, NCESD 171

Nehemias Chalma, Compost Facility Manager at Natural Selection Farms, spoke to teachers in both English and Spanish cohorts about using compost to support healthy soil. Where does good food go bad? This question gave educators in ESD 105, NCESD, and PSESD something to...

Hot and Hazy Summers Connect Climate Change to Local Experience

Feb 1, 2022 | NEWESD 101, ESD 105, ESD 112, ESD 123, NCESD 171, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)

Educators learned why we had such an extreme heat wave this past summer, as they heard from Robin Fox, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Spokane. Chelsea Freeman teaches high school in Tonasket, an agricultural community hit especially hard by the...

Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Forests with ESDs 105 and 171

Nov 23, 2021 | ESD 105, NCESD 171, Pacific Education Institute

Workshop participants took on the role of trees and competed with each other for carbon, nutrients, and water. When Pacific Education Institute and two Central Washington Educational Service Districts thought about how to best serve the teachers in their region, an...

Regional Science Coordinators are growing and supporting OpenSciEd use amongst middle school science teachers

Nov 9, 2021 | NEWESD 101, ESD 105, ESD 112, Capital Region ESD 113, Olympic ESD 114, PSESD, ESD 123, NCESD 171, NWESD 189

Between 2018 and 2021, Washington State Regional Science Coordinators and a tea of dedicated middle school science teachers engaged in field testing OpenSciEd instructional units to help inform the development of a complete Grades 6-8 open educational resource (OER)....

Washington State High School Teachers and OpenSciEd: on the cutting edge of NGSS instruction and materials

Oct 5, 2021 | NEWESD 101, ESD 105, ESD 112, Capital Region ESD 113, Olympic ESD 114, PSESD, ESD 123, NCESD 171, NWESD 189

Following our state's three year participation in helping develop the nationally recognized Middle School OpenSciEd materials, Washington State high school science teachers are stepping up to aid development of OpenSciEd's open educational resource instructional...

ClimeTime cited in leading science journal

Jan 15, 2021 | NEWESD 101, ESD 105, Partner Stories, ESD 112, Capital Region ESD 113, Olympic ESD 114, PSESD, ESD 123, NCESD 171, NWESD 189, Cascadia CD, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools), IslandWood, Pacific Education Institute, Padilla Bay, Snohomish CD, Teaching for the Climate Collaborative (TCC)

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...

Using NGSS to Investigate STEM Systems

Jan 6, 2021 | NEWESD 101, ESD 105, ESD 123, NCESD 171

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...

New Tools Engage Students in Virtual Climate Science Learning

Dec 2, 2020 | NEWESD 101, ESD 105, ESD 112, Capital Region ESD 113, Olympic ESD 114, PSESD, ESD 123, NCESD 171, NWESD 189, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)

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...

With Energy in Central Washington, The Sky’s the Limit!

Jul 23, 2020 | ESD 105, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)

Standing in the shadows of giant wind turbines, it’s hard not to be awestruck. For Yakima-area teachers, a field trip to the Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility outside Ellensburg not only inspired wonder, it connected them with local resources to engage their students...