The leaders of Washington’s statewide organizations representing parents and families, teachers, principals, classified school employees, superintendents, school board members, and our state superintendent have four top priorities for supporting Washington’s students...
Leaders from the state’s Educational Service Districts (ESDs) joined legislators, school staff and student representatives on September 22, for a news conference urging broader support and additional funding for school safety and student mental health services. During...
Superintendents from the state’s nine ESDs have been busy in Olympia this legislative session advocating on behalf of ESDs and the 295 school districts they collectively serve on legislation including school safety, Climate Science, special education, and Career...
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...
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...
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...
OSPI Assessment Outline: Intent section: We must have a high school assessment (federal requirement); Our commitment to a 10th grade high school assessment that builds upon our standards and our 3-8 assessment system; That prepares students for basic proficiency; and...
Bill Keim’s Seattle Times OP-Ed: School Funding- First Do no Harm: Read the article: http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/on-school-funding-first-do-no-harm/
This morning at 9 a.m. Superintendent Reykdal held a press conference to go over his long-term K-12 education vision and some basic elements of a McCleary solution. Watch the recorded press conference below: A link to the supporting budget documents can be found on...