PEI is the statewide lead for ClimeTime, an initiative overseen by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in collaboration with the UW Institute for Science + Math Education. OSPI manages the network and the grant funding flows through all nine Educational Service Districts (ESDs) in Washington, some Tribal Compact Schools, and nine community-based organizations, which are launching programs for science teacher training linking Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science.
In addition to teacher professional development, the project supports the 18 grantees to develop instructional materials, design related assessment tasks and evaluation strategies, and facilitate student events.
I've never seen or heard of anything similar to this training. There are a lot of interesting and engaging elements to (climate science) that make for useful teaching topics. It makes sense to ask teachers to think about ways they can integrate the social and science dimensions into their classrooms.