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
These goals are at the center of our organization and are a given in the next generation of PSESD

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
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

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.”
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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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