Thank you for your interest in applying to CE’s Pacific Northwest Clean Energy Fellows Program. We are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity to teachers across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana located in customer-owned utility territory. See this map to determine eligibility. Note: teachers located in Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, Avista, and Puget Sound Energy are not eligible as these are not consumer-owned utilities.

This application will take approximately 30-60 minutes to complete. We strongly recommend you have reviewed the application pdf and pre-written answers to the long-form questions in order to more easily complete the application.

Note: Applications must be submitted by June 12 at 7pm.

Clean Energy Fellows

This cohort, consisting of leaders from across the Pacific Northwest will find ways to reimagine how educators can build student access to and influence on the local energy landscape. Through a regional action plan, each Fellow will develop unique programming that leverages the community relationships, regional energy resources, place-based energy and justice challenges, and industry expertise. Through this process they will create robust, locally meaningful engagements that they will bring to their schools and other education organizations.

Regional Collaboration and Partnership Development
PNW Clean Energy Fellows will meet consistently with the Fellows cohort to provide peer-to-peer feedback, build content knowledge, and identify equitable pedagogy to guide the development of their new programming. Beginning with the August Leadership Institute, this collaborative approach continues throughout the rest of the cohort’s first year and beyond, through follow-up consultation and participation in a Fellows Leadership Network.

Throughout this process, CE will recruit regional industry and community partners to provide expertise on specific topic areas and support Fellows in their delivery. This partnership development will also take place at a community level, with supports in place to build relationships between Fellows and their local utilities, energy-adjacent industries, educational networks, and other community partners.

Action Plans
The primary objective of the Pacific Northwest Clean Energy Fellows program is for Fellows to develop robust action plans that facilitate student engagement in the clean energy economy.
Each Fellow or pair will apply with an action plan concept, whose implementation begins the same school year. Plans can take different forms, such as:

• Curriculum development
• Engineering challenges
• Event planning (annual career fairs or energy days)
• Career-connected programming (CTE pathways, scholarships, or internships)
• Combinations of these and other approaches.

The action plan is refined over the course of the program, through peer/partner collaboration and adjustment during implementation. While a core intention of these plans is to develop replicable tools and concrete outputs within the year, CE acknowledges that such initiatives often take multiple years to achieve their goals, so CE provides structures to continue consultation and support of Fellows as they move beyond their initial year.

Action plans will align with CE’s Pedagogical Foundations, incorporating place-based issues of justice in their final product. See CE's Statement on Justice for details on how CE appraches equity and justice issues in its work with educators.

For an example action plan from the 2021-2022 Cohort, see this link. Note that the action plan template will change for 2022-23, so this action plan does not represent the full scope of work Fellows will put into their action plans.

Please read CE's Statement on Justice before continuing.

Clean Energy Fellows

This cohort, consisting of leaders from across the Pacific Northwest will find ways to reimagine how educators can build student access to and influence on the local energy landscape. Through a regional action plan, each Fellow will develop unique programming that leverages the community relationships, regional energy resources, place-based energy and justice challenges, and industry expertise. Through this process they will create robust, locally meaningful engagements that they will bring to their schools and other education organizations.

Regional Collaboration and Partnership Development
PNW Clean Energy Fellows will meet consistently with the Fellows cohort to provide peer-to-peer feedback, build content knowledge, and identify equitable pedagogy to guide the development of their new programming. Beginning with the August Leadership Institute, this collaborative approach continues throughout the rest of the cohort’s first year and beyond, through follow-up consultation and participation in a Fellows Leadership Network.

Throughout this process, CE will recruit regional industry and community partners to provide expertise on specific topic areas and support Fellows in their delivery. This partnership development will also take place at a community level, with supports in place to build relationships between Fellows and their local utilities, energy-adjacent industries, educational networks, and other community partners.

Action Plans
The primary objective of the Pacific Northwest Clean Energy Fellows program is for Fellows to develop robust action plans that facilitate student engagement in the clean energy economy.
Each Fellow or pair will apply with an action plan concept, whose implementation begins the same school year. Plans can take different forms, such as:

• Curriculum development
• Engineering challenges
• Event planning (annual career fairs or energy days)
• Career-connected programming (CTE pathways, scholarships, or internships)
• Combinations of these and other approaches.

The action plan is refined over the course of the program, through peer/partner collaboration and adjustment during implementation. While a core intention of these plans is to develop replicable tools and concrete outputs within the year, CE acknowledges that such initiatives often take multiple years to achieve their goals, so CE provides structures to continue consultation and support of Fellows as they move beyond their initial year.

Action plans will align with CE’s Pedagogical Foundations, incorporating place-based issues of justice in their final product. See CE's Statement on Justice for details on how CE appraches equity and justice issues in its work with educators.

For an example action plan from the 2021-2022 Cohort, see this link. Note that the action plan template will change for 2022-23, so this action plan does not represent the full scope of work Fellows will put into their action plans.

Personal Statement (up to 500 words)

We'd like to learn more about you, your career journey, and your motivations for becoming a Fellow. Please include:

• Individual aspirations and professional development goals
• How your participation in this program is beneficial to your broader educational community and students
• Why you are interested in developing curriculum around renewable gas topics
• Demonstration of past leadership in district/career, past curriculum development efforts

Personal Equity Statement (up to 250 words)

Fellows will be asked to create curriculum that reflects best practices in culturally-sustaining education, especially for those students with minoritized identities (girls, Black, Indigenous, LatinX, LGBTQ+, rural youth, etc.).

The curriculum will be an example to other educators as to how to build equity in the classroom by meaningfully elevating student expertise and assets, especially those that are derived from their identities.

To that end, please craft a personal equity statement that:

• Focuses on you:
  • your equity journey
  • your learnings
  • what you are working on right now to continue on the journey
  • your understanding of your identities within a context of power
• Addresses how you understand your role as an educator in either reinforcing or addressing systems of power in the classroom
• Demonstrates steps you have take in your personal and professional life to address issues of equity for your students and community

Note: CE is not in a position to assess your credibility when it comes to equity-rather we seek an authentic expression of where you are in your journey and how you see this playing out in your classroom context.

This statement may be anonymously shared with other Fellows as part of the cohort process to facilitate discussion and learning across Fellows. CE staff will also share their equity statements.

Timing for Full Cohort Check Ins 

Estimated 90 minutes, with about 3 total during cohort year

Timing for Long Sessions

Estimated 3 hours long, with about 3-4 sessions during cohort year

Long Sessions Content

Please rank the following in terms of what you would like to do during the long sessions.

CE Staff support

How could CE staff best support you as you develop and implement your plan? 

THANK YOU FOR APPLYING!!!

We will notify you of receipt of your application. We will notify you of our decision on your applicaiton by June 21.

In case you are selected, please save Aug 8-9, 15-16 for the four-day Leadership Institute to kick off the Fellows cohort year.