Regional News
North Central Welcomes New Superintendent, Dr. Michelle Price
Dr. Michelle Price began her official duties as NCESD Superintendent on July 1 2017. Dr. Price most recently served as the Superintendent of the Moses Lake School District, having served in that capacity since 2009 and prior to that as their Assistant Superintendent...
Rich McBride and Merle Kirkley Receive Special Awards at the 2017 WASA/AWSP Summer Conference
More than 950 school superintendents, central office administrators, and principals from across Washington state gathered in Spokane to attend the 37th annual Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA) and Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP)...
North Central ESD Safety Co-op
Michael Dorn, Executive Director of Safe Havens International, on May 22 led a full house of school district staff through strategies to ensure school safety, security, and emergency preparedness. Mr. Dorn’s focus was on the whole child and whole staff approach, the...
Computers 4 Kids: Still going strong
C4K … an obscure Star Wars character you can’t remember? A relative of R2-D2 or C-3PO? No. C4K is not a robot, a drone, a person or any kind of Star Wars character. It’s an acronym for one of the state’s most successful and enduring educational technology programs –...
White Privilege Conference (WPC) – WPC 18
More than 1,600 people gathered April 27-30, 2017 in Kansas City, MO for the 18th annual White Privilege Conference (WPC 18). Fifteen PSESD staff members collaborated with dozens of Road Map district and community partners, sponsored by the Race to the Top project,...
OESD Offers Connections for Teacher Certification
Olympic ESD 114, along with school districts throughout our Region, remains active in helping solve the teacher shortage in Washington State. To help address and respond to the shortage, both last year and this year, we hosted two open houses (one in Bremerton and one...
ESD 123 Challenges the Network to Think Outside the Box
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” – Aristotle How can we make the AESD Network greater than the sum of its parts? As we prepare to host an AESD Conference like never before, ESD 123 challenges the superintendents, board members, and staff of our eight...
ESD 105 introduces Truancy & Dropout Prevention System to Northwest’s schools
Driving to reverse the high rate of chronic school absenteeism in our state, ESD 105 has become the exclusive Northwest distributor of the Truancy & Dropout Prevention System, a collection of tech-based tools that are designed to help schools monitor and resolve...
Southwest Washington ESD employment cooperative helps districts fill jobs in high-demand fields
TREC program ready to connect forthcoming college grads with careers Washington state school districts struggling to fill jobs in critical shortage areas may soon be getting the qualified staff and teachers they need, thanks to Educational Service District 112’s newly...
AESD Conference Recap
A few weeks ago, on April 20-22, 2017 the NWESD 189 hosted the 2017 AESD Conference in Lynnwood, WA at the Embassy Suites Hotel. The conference theme “Oceans of Change; Waves of Opportunity” resonated nicely with the messages from the keynote speakers and breakout...
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Mark your calendars! Registration opens on Tuesday, December 4. Learn more at www.waesd.org/ai-summit
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