• Produce Grade-Level Appendices for Amplify Science Units that will provide teachers and districts who are implementing Amplify with ideas for local, place-based, community-centered connections that incorporate schoolgrounds and communities, bring in students’ personal and cultural identities, and enhance climate science literacy.
• Deepen Science Knowledge and Climate Literacy: Develop capacity to use phenomena-driven storylines, climate literacy, regional data, critical thinking and student discourse in their teaching.
• Learn to integrate equity and address race, personal identities, and systemic injustices as a part of the science classroom. Experience approaches and strategies for incorporation of community assets (schoolyards, neighborhoods, local parks, community-based organizations and community members) into science learning.
• Create a Professional Learning Community of peer teachers, district leads and working group facilitators to collaborate with, and learn from as part of a professional learning community.

• Free housing, nourishing meals, travel reimbursement and optional relaxation and recuperation activities during the summer kick-off on IslandWood’s Bainbridge Island Campus. (August 2nd – 3rd with option to also stay the nights of August 1st and 4th) 
• 12 STEM Clock Hours
• $500 Stipend for participating during school year meetings, completion of surveys and creation (with a partner) of an appendix for an Amplify Science Unit.

Summer:

• August 2nd – 3rd in-person kick-off on our Bainbridge Island campus, with an option to also stay over the nights of August 1st and 4th (Stay, food, & activities on Bainbridge campus are free and included as part of the year-long commitment to the Working Group)
• One or two additional meetings with a grade-level partner
• August 18^th from 4-5:30 on Zoom

Asynchronous:

• Additional hours developing ideas and finalizing an appendix for one Amplify Science Unit throughout the year.

Schoolyear:

• Collaborate with a partner on ideas for a single Amplify Unit at one grade level.
• Attend one 90-minute virtual session while implementing the Amplify Unit you are working on.
• Four 90-minute after-school Zoom meetings focused on checking in, sharing implementation learnings and collaborating on further ideas.

Summer 2023:

• 90-minute Zoom session to share finalized appendices.

July 2023:

• Virtual Event – sharing success, challenges, and learnings – FINAL REPORT

• Application process has closed for the 2022-23 School Year.
• We encourage K-8 teachers, TOSAs, and District Science Department Leads who have experience with Amplify, will be implementing or supporting implementation of the Amplify Science Curriculum, and reflect the racial and cultural diversity of the region, to register.
• This working group is dependent on OSPI ClimeTime approval. Your acceptance to the working group will be confirmed with updated details in late June or early July after funding is approved.