Regional News
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...
Improving Dental Access for Migrant Students
The Northwest Educational Service District 189 provided coordination and support to the 2018 Migrant Summer School staff in piloting, for the first time, four dental screening events at Bellingham, Sedro-Woolley, Mount Vernon and Burlington-Edison school districts....
Kicking off our OESD’s 50th Year of Service to Public Education
On September 20, 2018, our OESD celebrated the beginning of its 50th year of providing services to public education! A special banner was displayed in front of the OESD building in Bremerton. While the weather cooperated, Superintendent Greg Lynch provided an overview...
Capital Region ESD 113 offers Web Accessibility Training
Equal Opportunity for All Everyone has the right to an equal opportunity to take part in mainstream American life. Buildings must have entrances that don’t require walking up stairs. Sidewalks must have curbs that slope to ease transitions for wheelchairs. We’re used...
Keeping Schools Safe
The run-up to this year’s start of school had the usual appearance of routi ne, but it wasn’t. In 14 Spokane area districts, a quiet, but powerful initiative began over the summer when NEWESD 101 officially launched a regional threat assessment cooperative. While...
2019 Washington State Teacher of the Year: Mt. Vernon’s Robert Hand
Robert Hand, a Mount Vernon High School teacher and Northwest Educational Service District 189 (NWESD) Regional Teacher of the Year, was selected as 2019 Washington State Teacher of the Year. Mr. Hand was selected from a talented group of nine teacher nominees from...
ESD 105 offers School Reingagement
This past summer, ESD 105 partnered up with the Yakima School District and its Stanton Academy in a two-month project that resulted in 75 youths reengaging back into school programs, with 50 of those enrolling at the Stanton alternative school. Two members of the ESD...
Summer Science was STEM-tastic at ESD 112
ESD 112’s STEM Initiatives team hosted the first-ever STEM-tastic Summer Science Symposium this summer. 192 science teachers from 27 different school districts gathered to learn about dozens of science topics, like solar energy, populations and ecosystems, and...
AESD Network News from across the State
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...
Michelle Price, Superintendent at North Central Educational Service District Shares her Journey in Becoming a Superintendent
Michelle Price, Superintendent at North Central Educational Service District is featured in one of a 9-Part video series by AASA titled Women in School Leadership: Navigating Pathways to the Superintendency....
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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.
