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As 2024 winds down, we are celebrating the ongoing transformation of education in our state and the role we get to play. Thank you for being part of our community and understanding the value of education that doesn’t just teach content but transforms students’ lives. Highlights of our work

It had been drizzling throughout the day during The Sailing Foundation’s Youth Sailing Leadership Forum – until, naturally, it was time to go outside for a field experience. Then, it started pouring.  “The participants were mostly sailing instructors,” says PEI’s Northwest FieldSTEM Coordinator Amy Keiper-Gowan, “so their response

“Out of my 23 years of teaching, this professional development is in my top two – or ties for first in terms of how much I learned and [the] misconceptions [that] changed, changing my perspective on logging in this case. I’m so happy to have the rest of

The first day of summer vacation may seem like a terrible time to hold a professional development workshop. Most teachers will have already started summer in their minds, even if their bodies are still present. But the 24 teachers from 11 Eastern Washington school districts who gathered for

Some environmental impacts on Washington’s Tribes are more obvious than others. The Quinault Nation, for example, is in the process of moving an entire village uphill due to sea level rise. But other issues can be harder to spot, even though they are just as threatening to sovereign

For the Quinault Nation, the impacts of climate change are personal. The tribe recently completed phase one of a multi-year project to move their entire lower village up the hill in response to sea level rise. On June 16 and 17, regional teachers toured that project and learned

It’s one thing to theorize about bees and other pollinators or read about them in the abstract. It’s another to walk out into a schoolyard and look for plants that could provide pollen. The latter approach to learning was in full effect at a May workshop introducing the