February was a busy month with the start of the legislative session, professional learning workshops, and celebrating Black History Month. Check out what we have been up to below.

Advocate for FieldSTEM

PEI and the legislative session

We are asking our partners across the state to support our efforts to increase the funding available to PEI through the FieldSTEM proviso. The funds we receive are critical to the work we do to support school districts’ professional learning related to FieldSTEM implementation.
 
The House Appropriations and the Senate Ways and Means Committees are beginning budget conversations now. It is important that the House Appropriations Committee members and the Senate Ways and Means Committee hear from their constituents about the value of PEI’s work in their districts. If you're interested in supporting PEI through this process, please send your representative a request to support the increase.

Why FieldSTEM?
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Implementing FieldSTEM

Shelton School District

PEI supports educators to implement the FieldSTEM model in their classrooms, schools, and districts. As school districts engage their students in integrated, locally relevant, career connected learning they progress along the FieldSTEM District Implementation Continuum from an ’exploring’ to an ‘emerging' district, and then to a district of ‘implementing with excellence.’ Shelton School District exemplifies this last category with 100% schools engaged.

Read more about Shelton School District.

Featured lesson

Toad Abodes

Celebrating Black History

Pacific Education Institute is excited to be part of the Thurston ECO Network’s DEI Subcommittee. To celebrate Black History Month the committee created BRAIN STEM Heroes profiles, wrote an informative article and are hosting a virtual salmon talk with local Black biologist Marisa Litz on February 25th at 5:30.

Check out the article from Thurston Talk

Upcoming events

With Gratitude