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

2. GOALS Success for Each Child & Eliminate the Opportunity Gap Become an Antiracist Multicultural Organization

3. 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

4. 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.”

5. Today Learning and strategy process

6. About Puget Sound Educational Service District What We Do 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. Who We Serve ▪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

8. 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?

9. 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