These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
Northwest ESD is approaching equity in access to climate science learning through the spheres of P-K learning, indigenous ways of knowing science and pedagogical tools that engage all learners.
Food justice classes and mock G7 summits are on the curriculum in the first US state to fund “climate change education” in public schools. In science teacher Ali Coker’s sophomore biology class, students became farming activists attending a G7 summit. Coker wove in...
The ClimeTime program provides more resources to teach about climate change. And it gets kids thinking about solutions. Jaxon Kennard learned that forests capture planet-warming carbon. So the soft-spoken seventh grader pitched in to remove tree-killing invasive ivy....
Teaching climate change to younger students can be challenging due to its complexity. In response to this challenge, Aubrei McGinn Pallini, a kindergarten teacher at Cathcart Elementary in south Snohomish County, sought assistance to integrate science and climate...
When Celia Cummings started teaching Waterville High School’s first environmental science class, she discovered that many of her students came from families that doubt the science of climate change. Celia was enrolled in a climate justice focused professional...
"Teaching climate change is very emotional, and helping students embrace those emotions is vital," shared a teacher attending EarthGen's newest training, Climate Grief and Creative Expression. This training is designed to equip teachers with skills to address their...
On a beautiful fall morning in October, twenty-three educators joined the Teaching for the Climate Collaborative at Alluvial Farms in Whatcom County. The tour showcased local engineering solutions the farm institutes to mitigate the effects of climate change. Teachers...
How do you stop a beach from eroding? What do city planners need to consider to save their cities from sea level rise? These are just two of the questions teachers from NWESD 189 tackled at a November workshop with Pacific Education Institute (PEI) FieldSTEM...
Teacher Casey Jones’ family includes migrant farmworkers, whose lives are directly affected by climate change and social injustice. The students at Rowena Chess Elementary School where Casey teaches also see the effects of these twin crises in their daily lives....
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 PEI’s...