Success For Each Child & Eliminate The Opportunity Gap PSESD Strategic Design Community Conversations

GOALS Success for Each Child & Eliminate the Opportunity Gap Become an Antiracist Multicultural Organization These goals are at the center of our organization and are a given in the next generation of PSESD

OPPORTUNITY GAP The public school system (e.g., structures, practices, allocation of resources) provides or denies opportunity, creating a gap Source: Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee, Closing Opportunity Gaps in Washington’s Public Education System 2016 this is our definition of the opportunity gap. Our current and future work aims toward addressing both sides of the gap: access and lack of culturally responsive teachers, curriculum and supports

ANTIRACIST MULTICULTURAL ORGANIZATION (Excerpt) “…the organization outlines how power has been used both historically and currently by white dominant culture to maintain inequity and works intentionally to prepare members to dismantle and eliminate this practice. In an antiracist organization, members become accountable to communities of color to define success.” In order to close the opportunity gap, our organization has to move toward becoming an antiracist multicultural organization If we do this we will avoid creating the same racist systems that produce inequities for children, families and communitities of color, and will help us achieve our mission of closing the opportunity gap

Today Learning and strategy process Design Team learns and shares Stakeholder conversations Design Team summarizes conversations First version of the design PSESD Board adopts Learning and strategy process Today Why now? Mission Positioned to meet the needs of the future and responsive to changing context Operationalize Racial Equity Policy and other foundational efforts How the information you share will be used Provides the foundation of our design I will send you the notes from today to see if it represents what you shared I will send you the draft design in the summer or fall to get your feedback

About Puget Sound Educational Service District What We Do Who We Serve We coordinate more than 70 programs through the following departments: Administrative & Management Services creates interagency cooperatives and supports all aspects of school, administrative, business and communications functions. Learning and Teaching provides direct services to early learning-grade 12 children, students, families, teachers, and administrators and improves the achievement of all students in a safe and supportive learning environment. Technology Services increases the efficiency of technology implementation through seminars, training, purchasing programs, web development, network support, and more. 35 school districts 200 private schools 7 charter schools 39% of Washington’s K-12 public school students 23,590 K-12 teachers 414,000 students—Regionally 50% are students of color Sarita

PSESD Funding Annual Agency Budget (15-16): $94,527,000 Less than 1% of our funding comes from a state allocation. Our programs are funded primarily by entrepreneurial means. We apply for and receive competitive state, federal and private grants. We also operate cooperatives among schools and other agencies, supported through membership fees. (As of Nov. 2015) Sarita Annual Agency Budget (15-16): $94,527,000 Number of Regular Employees: ~400 Number of Temporary Employees: ~350

Your perspective How might the PSESD support your work, i.e. instructional support, teacher leadership, administrative leadership, in service to students, families and communities, particularly students, families and communities of color?

Thank you! We will send you the notes from today to see if they represent what you shared We will send you the draft design in the summer or fall to get your feedback