Member Communications: Keeping You Connected
AESA offers four distinct electronic publications as well as our Federal Updates blog designed to keep members informed, engaged, and connected. These communications provide valuable updates, insights, and resources tailored specifically for educational service agencies (ESAs). |
Finding Teachers in Our Own Back Yard
One agency’s solution to the teacher shortage crisis in Washington state Washington’s demand for teachers increased by 250 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to Washington state’s Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) (WA Office of PI, April 2018). School district human resources directors attested to the need in a fall 2016 survey by the state…
A Historic Look: Creating Pathways to Becoming an Antiracist Multicultural Organization (Part I)
(Part I of a two-part series) By Melia LaCour Executive Director, Equity in Education, Puget Sound Educational Service District Educational Service Agencies (ESAs) are uniquely positioned to provide catalytic leadership for widespread, socially just, educational transformation. By building their own capacity to dismantle the institutional racism entrenched in our educational system, ESAs, in collaboration…
Increasing Social Capital in Appalachia
Developing an understanding of what conditions are necessary for student agency to have an impact on community vitality By Joseph Goins Executive Summary In the spring of 2017, Digital Promise, along with the Kauffman Foundation, sponsored a planning grant to research the nature of education innovation clusters (EICs). The research was aimed at addressing the…
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