During the week of October 19th, 2020, 18 teachers from Pasco School District attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Renewable Energy-Solar, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinator Mike Nepean and Faculty...
Partner stories
These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
Pacific Education Institute
Pacific Education Institute (PEI) delivers high-quality professional development and consultation services for educators in equitable, locally relevant, career connected, outdoor STEM education. PEI’s project, “Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS),” is designed to strengthen teachers’ equitable climate science instruction through locally relevant storylines.
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines Renewable Energy: Solar workshop (Western Washington)
During the week of October 19th, 2020, 17 teachers from the Puget Sound region attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Renewable Energy-Solar, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinators Molly Griffiths, Tressa Arbow...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards
During the week of October 12th, 2020, 25 teachers from across the South Sound and the Olympic Peninsula attended a three-day online workshop, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Coastal Hazards, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinators Julie...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines Writing Workshop: Coastal Hazards
During the week of August 10th, 2020, 12 educators from across western Washington joined Pacific Education Institute staff and faculty online to write Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines on the topic of coastal hazards. The goal was to create developmentally...
Distance Learning for the Birds
When ESD105 originally partnered with Pacific Education Institute and the Mount Rainier Institute to offer a professional development for secondary educators in June 2020, the idea was to take Yakima area workshop participants into the great outdoors and study the...
Writing Solutions Oriented Storylines: Focus on Solar Energy
During the week of June 22nd, 2020, 16 educators from across the state joined Pacific Education Institute staff and faculty online to write solutions oriented storylines on solar energy, for first and fourth grades and middle and high school. The goal was to create...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines Fire: Forest Management and Skills
During the week of June 9th, 2020, 30 middle school and high school teachers from across Washington attended an online workshop series, Solutions Oriented Learning Fire: Forest Management and Skills, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinator, Mike...
Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines with Nonformal Educators
On May 29th, 2020, 25 nonformal educators from Western Washington came together online to discuss climate science in K-12 schools, climate science within their programs, and review PEI’s Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines on the topics of Regenerative Agriculture,...
Wildfires in Western Washington- May 2020
During the week of May 18th, 2020, 28 teachers from across Western Washington attended an online workshop series, Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Wildfires in Western Washington, with Pacific Education Institute’s FieldSTEM Coordinators, Julie Tennis and...