LOCALIZING SCIENCE
WORKING GROUP
Returning in August 2026
Returning in August 2026
The working group is on hold this year while we move drafts created by previous teams into their final form. We are looking forward to bringing the Localizing Science Working Group together again in August of 2026 to develop and refine guides for K-12 OpenSciEd and K-8 Amplify Science units during the 2026-27 School Year.
We are seeking experienced educators committed to collaborating in a year-long working group focused on enhancing science education. We are hoping to form teams at elementary, middle school, and high school levels, that include classroom teachers, TOSAs, and district science leads.
An ongoing professional learning community that includes:
August
Applications for the next Localizing Science Working Group will available in January 2026. In the meantime we hope you will join one of our Localizing Workshops!
If you haven’t already, subscribe to our mailing list to stay in the know about next year’s Localizing Working Group and other professional learning opportunities.
– Rachel Hall, 2022-23 Working Group Member
IslandWood acknowledges that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suqʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suqʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suqʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855. While the majority of our work takes place on Suquamish and Duwamish (dxʷdɐwʔabʃ) land, we also conduct programs on the land of the Snohomish (sduhúbʃ), Puyallup (spuyaləpabš), Muckleshoot (buklshuhls), Skokomish (sqoqc’bes), and S’Klallam (nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm) peoples.
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