Regional News
10 Award-Winning Art Pieces by Student Artists
The 45th Annual ESD 105 Regional High School Art Show showcased 94 entries by students from 14 of south central Washington's high schools. The exhibit, on display Feb. 26-March 16 in the lobby of the Junior Achievement World facility in Yakima, included a March 3...
ESD 105 Annual Report Now Available
The 2018 ESD 105 Annual Report offers a quick 4-page overview of our services and activities with the schools of south central Washington, plus data on our region's demographics and the agency's operations. Take a look and download the PDF here! How we helped make...
The OSPI/AESD Science Network: A focus on Scientific Literacy
We live in an age of constant scientific discovery — a world shaped by revolutionary new technologies. More and more, scientific and technological issues dominate state discourse, from environmental debates on ozone depletion and acid rain, to economic threats from...
Preparing for Life After School: ESD 123 Program grows by more than 300%
To prepare students for life and employment after school, ESD 123 has been providing pre-employment training and support for students with disabilities in 11 of the region’s 23 school districts since November 2016. The program training was modified over the past...
OESD and Chimacum Celebrate 2018 Regional Teacher of the Year, Gary Coyan
Gary Coyan, Arts/CTE Teacher at Chimacum High School, is definitely a teacher to celebrate! On September 13, 2017, Olympic ESD Superintendent Greg Lynch visited the Chimacum School Board Meeting to present Gary Coyan with his Regional Teacher of the Year Award. Since...
ESD 112 Helps Communicate Impact of New School Property Tax
The job of communicating school finances to local taxpayers became even more daunting when in 2017 the Washington State Legislature made changes to school property taxes. Anticipating the public concern when tax statements arrived in the hands of property owners, the...
Race to the Top Leaves a Legacy of Regional Collaboration
The $40 million was an unprecedented regional investment in South King County. Awarded in 2012, the grant launched a wide range of innovations in early learning, STEM education and college and career readiness systems. RTT aimed to impact students across a consortium...
A Letter from Rick Anthony, AESD President
I want to welcome each of you to a new year and the beginning of another year for ESDs to work together, help and support our districts as well as grow our network. As you may know, our strategic plan has been completed for the next three plus years. Our goals are:...
ESD 105 Helps Students Prepare for Washington’s STEM Careers
To help students gain early preparation and interested in Washington's high-market STEM career areas, ESD 105 started up a new computer science initiative this past fall ...one in which some of the expertise is coming directly from both Facebook and Microsoft. The...
NEWESD 101 Preparing for a Dust-Up of the Good Kind
Please excuse the dust. We are under construction. Those may be the most common heard words at NEWESD in 2018. Yes, the dawn of a new year brings exciting change in Spokane, as work will soon commence on a 7,000-square-foot conference center addition. The addition,...
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Joe Brazier, Director Worldwide Azure Solution Strategy for Microsoft Education, closed the inaugural AI Innovation Summit last week with an inspiring keynote that highlighted key strategies for educators to navigate the AI Era and implement AI into K-12 education systems successfully.
