For districts
A PD program your teachers will actually talk about.
Odyssey Discovery partners with school districts to deliver field-based science education that transforms how teachers teach — and travels back into every classroom they touch.
The problem
PD that teachers forget by Monday is a budget problem.
Generic PD evaporates.
Most professional development is forgotten by the following week — and there's data to prove it.
Teachers feel disconnected from current science.
The pace of climate, ocean, and Earth science research has lapped most curricula.
Textbooks are five years behind the data.
Students learning climate change from sources older than the most recent IPCC report.
Districts are losing passionate teachers.
Mission-driven educators leave when growth and inspiration aren't part of the job.
A district partnership includes
A real program, built around your goals.
We don't run one-off workshops. A partnership integrates classroom programs, educator expeditions — including our flagship Arctic expedition — and curriculum support into one cohesive year.
- Field Notes: Explorer across multiple schools and grade bands
- Odyssey Discovery Expedition cohort for selected teachers each year
- Curriculum integration support aligned to your standards
- Outcomes reporting — engagement, retention, classroom impact
- Multi-year program design with funding strategy
Partnership tiers
Start small. Or go district-wide.
Pilot Partnership
1 school · 1 semester
Lowest-risk way to bring Odyssey Discovery into your district.
School Partnership
1 school · full year
A full year of programming for a single school community.
Multi-School
3–5 schools
Coordinated programming across grade bands or buildings.
District-Wide
Custom
Designed around your standards, calendar, and funding cycle.
Outcomes you care about
Things that show up in a board report.
- — Teacher engagement & retention indicators
- — Curriculum alignment to NGSS and state standards
- — Student engagement metrics from pilot data
- — Equity & access lens on every cohort
- — Grant funding strategy to offset program cost
Grant funding
We help you find the money.
Most districts don't have a line item called "send a teacher to the Arctic." But there are funds — Title I, STEM grants, climate education set-asides, private foundations — that can be aligned to programs like ours. We help you identify them.
Case study
Jane Goodall Institute partner school
Our pilot delivered the strongest end-of-program teacher survey results the school had recorded for any PD initiative. Full case study available on request.
Schedule
A 30-minute call. No deck.
Tell us about your district's goals. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit — and what a first year could look like.