Puget 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...A Historic Look: Creating Pathways to Becoming an Antiracist Multicultural Organization (Part 2)
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...A Historic Look: Creating Pathways to Becoming an Antiracist Multicultural Organization (Part I)
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...Puget Sound ESD Hosts Student Interns for Third Year in a Row
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...Puget Sound ESD Shares Its Racial Equity Journey Nationally
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...What’s Happening on Facebook
Senate Ways & Means - TVW
Public Hearing: SGA 9220: SB 5192: Concerning school district materials, supplies, and operating costs. SSB 5263: Concerning special education funding. SB
Senate Ways & Means - TVW
Public Hearing: SGA 9220: SB 5192: Concerning school district materials, supplies, and operating costs. SSB 5263: Concerning special education funding. SB