Innovative climate science grant connects classroom instruction to real-world issues
Teachers at Goose Point Oysters in October learning how our changing climate is effecting this local oyster farm With the recently released U.S. [...]
Educators, community partners provide valuable training at 2018 Safety Summit
More than 450 educators and community partners attended the 2018 Annual Safety Summit, sponsored by the Clark County Safe Schools Task Force. Attendees represented 13 school [...]
ESD-U kicks off classes this summer to train and certify teachers in shortage areas
July 16, 2018 marked the beginning of classes for ESD-U’s first cohort; teachers and future educators dedicated four weeks of their summer to attending classes [...]
Teachers receive free professional learning during STEM-tastic Summer Symposium
Teachers experiment with whirly-gigs and then build this simple activity into an integrated STEM unit on transportation. For three learning-packed days in August, [...]
nPower Girls STEM program changes name to reflect expanded focus
nPower Teachers hear from Tetra Pak in Vancouver about how they utilize air scrubbers to prevent pollutants from entering the air around their plant. [...]
ELL and SPED educators enjoy training by Steve Gill
On September 28, roughly 100 educators gathered at ESD 112 for an all day training on Steve Gill's ELL Critical Data Process. Steve was brought [...]
Educating the Educators: One Way Kelso School District Supports Teachers
One in five Washington teachers leave the profession within the first four years of their teaching career. Of all levels of experience, attrition rates for [...]
Alternative Routes program helps alleviate teacher shortage
ESD 112 Becomes Certification Provider Finding teachers is becoming especially difficult. It's a challenging job, and with the demand for teachers in general increasing by [...]
ESD 112 support staff support each other with Job Alike Workgroup
Administrative Assistants, Secretaries and Office Assistants are crucial to supporting the daily functions of ESD departments and programs. And sharing their work and learning from [...]
Collaborative effort strengthens STEM opportunities in SW WA region
Professional learning for teachers and career-connected learning for students The connection between the learning that occurs in the classroom and applying it to real-life [...]
Providing ongoing TPEP support for educators
Educators are becoming increasingly fluent in the requirements of TPEP, the Teacher Principal Evaluation system now in its first full year of implementation by all [...]
Teachers gain tech skills at Summit featuring Google Apps for Education
ESD 112 hosted the second annual DigitalBug Washington Summit featuring Google Apps for Education August 10 where educators from around the state learned how to use Google’s tools and resources [...]
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