  Our educational systems must prepare students for an increasingly
interconnected future, and teachers require equipping with modern tools, such
as network science, to achieve this. We held a Networks in Classroom Education
(NiCE) workshop for a group of 21 K-12 teachers with various disciplinary
backgrounds. The explicit aim of this was to introduce them to concepts in
network science, show them how these concepts can be utilized in the classroom,
and empower them to develop resources, in the form of lesson plans, for
themselves and the wider community. Here we detail the nature of the workshop
and present its outcomes - including an innovative set of publicly available
lesson plans. We discuss the future for successful integration of network
science in K-12 education, and the importance of inspiring and enabling our
teachers.
