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“One small step…” ESDs across the state celebrate 50 years of service
The most famous words of 1969, spoken by Neil Armstrong, also fittingly describe another initiative that occurred that same year benefitting education in our state. Fifty years later, the impact of that initiative is one that continues to provide giant leaps for...
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ESD-U Currently Recruiting for Summer Cohort
Teacher certification and endorsement program ESD-U is currently accepting applications for its upcoming 2019-2020 cohort and is holding informational sessions in January and February. Aspiring teachers who currently hold a bachelor’s degree or certified teachers...
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Statewide Climate Science Initiative Highlighted in Green Schools Catalyst Quarterly
ClimeTime, a statewide initiative, was recently featured in an article written by Abby Rusky and published in the Green Schools Catalyst Quarterly December issue. The article, Launching K-12 Climate Science Literacy to Scale in Washington State, highlights the...
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Winter/Spring 2019 Education Connection
Read our Winter/Spring Education Connection online and get a jump start on professional development planning for the year and read a few of our latest stories from around the NWESD region: Need a printed copy? No problem! Just send us an email...
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Heart in Hand – Washington State Teacher of the Year
It’s 9:30 A.M. in Robert Hand’s Family & Consumer Science class at Mount Vernon High School. Nineteen seniors settle into their seats and everyone has an HP Notebook. Trendy music plays softly in the background, there is a string of white lights on the ceiling,...
read more“When Given Wings, Summer Learning Takes Flight” The Burlington-Edison School District Pilots NASA Camp
This past summer, the Northwest Educational Service District 189’s Migrant Education Program in concert with OSPI, the Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pipeline (NESSP) and NASA Science Mission Directorate, and the Burlington-Edison School District championed a...
read moreNorth Central Education Foundation Awards over 100 Teacher Classroom Grants
The North Central Education Foundation was thrilled to increase the number of teacher classroom grants that were awarded at the 2018 Teacher Classroom Grant Award reception held in October at the Confluence Technology Center in Wenatchee. During this ninth year of...
read morePuget Sound ESD Leaders in Training (LIT)
This summer twenty students from high schools throughout King and Pierce counties joined Puget Sound ESD (PSESD) staff as Inaugural Leaders in Training (LIT) interns. The goal of LIT is to incorporate youth voice into PSESD’s work in support of our End, while...
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Improving Dental Access for Migrant Students
The Northwest Educational Service District 189 provided coordination and support to the 2018 Migrant Summer School staff in piloting, for the first time, four dental screening events at Bellingham, Sedro-Woolley, Mount Vernon and Burlington-Edison school districts....
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Kicking off our OESD’s 50th Year of Service to Public Education
On September 20, 2018, our OESD celebrated the beginning of its 50th year of providing services to public education! A special banner was displayed in front of the OESD building in Bremerton. While the weather cooperated, Superintendent Greg Lynch provided an overview...
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Legislative News
2019 Legislative Session – Week 3
Summary 1/28/19 begins week three of the 2019 Legislative Session. We’ve seen hundreds of bills introduced. Additional Resources: To get up to speed, check out WSSDA’s legislative update from week 2 now available here.The Opening Day Special Edition TWIO is now...
read moreAESD Network News from across the State
The AESD Strategic Plan: Inventing Our Future Benjamin Franklin noted, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Brian Johnson reminds us the future is not fixed. It is not a set point over the horizon that we are all running toward, helpless to do anything...
read moreSummary of 2018-19 AESD Computer Science Grant
In summary each ESD will receive $20,150 to do the work around the grant. This will include the following overall outcomes: Three statewide convenings of regional ESD CS leaders and the support of OSPI to discuss regional and statewide efforts/partnerships and how...
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AESD Network News from across the State
Success in life is not accidental: Planning works! We often hear the phrase, “The best way to prepare for the future is to plan for it.” Operating from that belief, the AESD Executive Committee recently approved the 2018-2021, AESD Network Strategic Plan with updated...
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2018 Legislative Session – Week Eight
Supplemental Operating Budgets Released House Democrats released their 2018 supplemental budget proposal Tuesday- it does not fund early teacher salaries and would cut property taxes in 2019 and 2020 using the money from the increase in the revenue forecast. The...
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Special Session Update
The legislature is scheduled to finish its third special session on Thursday, July 21. There is still no resolution on the 2017-19 Capital Budget. The Seattle Times published a detailed story on the Capital Budget dispute. WSSDA Summary Document Links Impact Summary...
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