Last Wednesday, PEI attended the Summer Institute for Teachers hosted by #NisquallyRiverFoundation, ESD 113 and South Sound GREEN to talk about the family engagement event which happened at the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail in April and the partnership of the Kennedy Creek Core Committee.
the Educator of the Year award by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for her leadership in building equitable and connecting rooted environmental education and expanding culturally relevant multilingual resources for educators and young people across the state.
We recently attended an North American Association for Environmental Education - NAAEE webinar on the challenges of communicating the impact of environmental education. Turns out we're not the only ones who struggle with this!
Tribes are facing with climate change and the ways they have been responding to the challenge. On Tuesday, educators and partners toured climate change mitigation and impact response projects on Quinault lands.
Yesterday we wrapped up a two-day Tribes and Climate Change workshop in collaboration with #ThisisIndianCountry and Washington Wild on Quinault Indian Nation lands. Participating teachers explored the Tribes and Climate Change curriculum, with lessons and Q&A’s related to the challenges
people, engaging students, educators, and communities about the critical role of forestry to Washington’s economy and communities.' PEI's Project Learning Tree workshops and YESS programs have been part of that work.
Congratulations to Washington SFI Implementation Committee (SIC) for this recognition from Sustainable Forestry Initiative for 'promoting forest sector career pathways and fostering forestry literacy among young . . .
Nooksack Head Start teachers used their senses to explore neighborhood trees in preparation for using the Project Learning Tree "Trees and Me: Activities for Early Learners" program with PreK students! They discovered the sounds, smells, and feel of spring, used Sit Spots to get to know a tree,
Another memorable collaborative workshop with the team at Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and NWESD 189. Learn what mud has to do with it in this story from our May newsletter below.
the projects that were put in last year and see the future sites of this year's projects going in this June. They also learned about the native plant sale that the students ran - raising nearly $5000!
They design project proposals, including cost of funding and pitch their ideas to potential community partner funders, and put the funded projects into action. PEI's Lower Columbia FieldSTEM Coordinator Emily Newma joined the group to tour
The ninth and final session in the Taking Learning Outside series “Engaging Middle and High School Students in Outdoor Learning” took place May 20th at Odyssey Middle School in Camas. Teachers Kerin Motzinger, Robert More, and Jordan Zanmiller shared how they take students . . .
This May, PEI's Multicultural Engagement Coordinator Lourdes Flores has supported outreach efforts within Shelton School District and South Puget Sound Community College to help communities weigh in on ways to improve access to the Kennedy Creek Natural Area.
