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“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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Capital Region ESD 113 offers Web Accessibility Training
Equal Opportunity for All Everyone has the right to an equal opportunity to take part in mainstream American life. Buildings must have entrances that don’t require walking up stairs. Sidewalks must have curbs that slope to ease transitions for wheelchairs. We’re used...
read moreKeeping Schools Safe
The run-up to this year’s start of school had the usual appearance of routi ne, but it wasn’t. In 14 Spokane area districts, a quiet, but powerful initiative began over the summer when NEWESD 101 officially launched a regional threat assessment cooperative. While...
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2019 Washington State Teacher of the Year: Mt. Vernon’s Robert Hand
Robert Hand, a Mount Vernon High School teacher and Northwest Educational Service District 189 (NWESD) Regional Teacher of the Year, was selected as 2019 Washington State Teacher of the Year. Mr. Hand was selected from a talented group of nine teacher nominees from...
read moreESD 105 offers School Reingagement
This past summer, ESD 105 partnered up with the Yakima School District and its Stanton Academy in a two-month project that resulted in 75 youths reengaging back into school programs, with 50 of those enrolling at the Stanton alternative school. Two members of the ESD...
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Summer Science was STEM-tastic at ESD 112
ESD 112’s STEM Initiatives team hosted the first-ever STEM-tastic Summer Science Symposium this summer. 192 science teachers from 27 different school districts gathered to learn about dozens of science topics, like solar energy, populations and ecosystems, and...
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Legislative News
AESD 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
#left-area .et_post_meta_wrapper img {display: none;} 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...
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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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Special Session Continues
The second special session is scheduled to end this Wednesday, June 21. A third session will likely be called as soon as the second adjourns because there is not yet an operating budget or an education funding plan. Negotiators continue to meet several times a week...
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