North Thurston Public Schools Native Student Program Specialist Jerad Koepp has been named 2022 Washington State Teacher of the Year, and Kelso School District McKinney-Vento Liaison Nancy Baldwin has been named 2021 Washington State Classified School Employee of the...
Currently, the state of Washington is ranked as one of the nation’s least inclusive states (44 out of 50), but educators from across Southwest Washington and the rest of the state are actively working to change that. The Washington Association of Educational Service...
In its next series of classes, the AESD is offering professional learning opportunities for educators in districts that have selected one of the five most commonly utilized LMS platforms. Below are links to the LMS vendor web sites for further information: Canvas...
August 3-28, 2020 We’re shaping the path ahead! Wherever you are on your distance learning journey, we are here to support you. Washington’s 9 ESDs are proud to partner again with Jeff Utecht (founder of Shifting Schools). Beginning in August and through the fall,...
Didn't get a chance to register for the first rounds of "Shifting School" with Jeff Utecht? We've got you covered! We're opening a three-day window from May 26-28 to register for a new cohort in this virtual professional learning series. Register Now! It’s time to...
Earlier this spring, members of Puget Sound ESD Cabinet, Transformation Team, Strategic Direction Action Team Leads and Strategic Action Team 4, which consists of employees, community partners and families, gathered at the agency to plant a tree! These combined teams...
To showcase the collaborative efforts across the state, all nine Educational Service Districts and seven Community-Based Organizations collaborated to launch a new website www.climetime.org. ClimeTime is a state-led network for climate science learning that helps...
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...
Article Published on the AESA Perspectives website Over a decade ago, the Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) launched a monumental mission to become an Antiracist Multicultural Organization (ARMCO). This article describes the multiple pathways the agency...
Article Published on the AESA Perspectives website Educational Service Agencies (ESAs) are uniquely positioned to provide catalytic leadership for widespread, socially just, educational transformation. By building their own capacity to dismantle the institutional...
In 2015-16, Puget Sound ESD created a paid high school student internship program to support PSESD’s commitment to racial equity and align our work to student voice. Sarita Siqueiros-Thornburg (Executive Director of Strategy, Evaluation and Learning) and Marques...
Dismantle Institutional Racism Melia LaCour, Executive Director of Equity in Education for Puget Sound ESD, was recently published in the AESA Perspectives Blog. In this post, which is Part I of a two-part series, LaCour shares how PSESD has worked since 2008 to...