These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
Thirteen students from the Lewis County Juvenile Detention facility in Chehalis, Washington attended a workshop about local marine mammals on November 21st, 2019. Aarin Wilde program manager from FOSS Waterway Seaport in Tacoma led the workshop. This workshop was part...
A group of eight students from Thurston County Juvenile Court ventured out to Nature Nurtures Farm in West Olympia on November 22nd. This field experience was part of a weekly environmental workshop or field experience for Thurston County adjudicated youth in...
On November 15th a small group of youth ages 13-17 from Thurston County Juvenile Court visited the McLane Creek Nature Trail in Olympia as part of the environmental education programming with the Chehalis Basin Education Consortium and Capital Region ESD 113. The day...
On December 9th and 10th, more than a dozen educators attended the Pacific Education Institute’s two-day workshop at the Water Resources Education Center in Vancouver to learn how to pilot a Solutions Oriented Learning Storyline on Food Waste. Based on research from...
Youth from Thurston County Juvenile Court are participating in weekly environmental field experiences or workshops at various locations around Thurston County in a new partnership with Rachel Stendahl/Chehalis Basin Education Consortium and ESD 113. Every week, they...
Students from the Thurston County Juvenile Court attended an environmental workshop led by Sam Nadell, watershed educator with the Thurston County Conservation District on December 13th, 2019. The workshop was part of a weekly local environmental workshop or field...
More than two dozen teachers from Southwest Washington school districts attended a STEM Seminar at Vancouver Community Library on Tuesday, December 3 to learn about connections between climate change and human health. The full-day professional development opportunity...
Wake up and smell the… wastewater? On Saturday, November 2nd 2019, nine teachers and educators met up at the Renton's King County South Treatment Plant to discuss how we build, use, and care for our water urban systems. Along with 2 facilitators, participants had the...
Early on Saturday, November 9th, at Sartori Elementary, 5 teachers and 2 IslandWood staff explored how mapping neighborhood assets, opportunities, and problems can engage students more deeply in science and engineering. Together, we deepened our knowledge on how...