Final List of WSSDA Board Officer Candidates

The final list of candidates for September’s WSSDA board officers election is now set. Voting will begin September 1 when school board members receive an email with their personal ballot link. To ensure participation, board members are encouraged to provide or update their emails by contacting WSSDA…

A New Way to Think of Advocacy

Advocacy 365 There is always a great deal of attention on the legislative session that begins each January, but advocacy is a year-round activity. To make the most of your advocacy efforts, take a look at our new advocacy cycle planner that reflects the…

Interim: Special Education

WSSDA’s strategic advocacy team hosted the third Leg Reps Learn of the 2021 interim. These webinars will be offered at no cost to WSSDA members on topics related to WSSDA’s advocacy efforts. Leg Reps Learn This week’s Leg Reps Learn webinar focused on special…

The application window for Boards of Distinction is now open

Inspect, Identify, Inspire: Boards of Distinction Program

It has been a highly unusual year for school districts with many challenges faced and still ahead, but WSSDA is looking forward to hearing how your board has risen to these challenges. New year, new benchmarks WSSDA’s Boards of Distinction program is about helping…

Interim: Dual Credit/College in High School

WSSDA’s strategic advocacy team hosted the second Leg Reps Learn of the 2021 interim. These webinars will be offered at no cost to WSSDA members on topics related to WSSDA’s advocacy efforts. Leg Reps Learn This week’s Leg Reps Learn webinar focused on dual…

Talking About Equity With a Divided Community—Resources

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WSSDA and WASA recently hosted several webinars exploring how to communicate effectively about equity with a divided community. In these webinars, attendees were given a number of helpful resources to accompany their learning. Couldn’t attend? No worries. Even if you could not attend the…

Director Spotlight: Donna Sinclair

All school board members are also members of WSSDA. We hope that shining a spotlight on individual school directors will contribute to a sense of community and connectedness among WSSDA’s members. These “director spotlights” are also a way to share knowledge and reveal the variety of backgrounds…

Leg Reps Learn Webinar Series

WSSDA has launched the 2021 interim Leg Reps Learn Webinar Series. All school board members are welcome! At the Leg Reps Learn webinar series school board members can learn from experts, legislators and other school board members. The webinars will help legislative representatives engage fellow board…

WSSDA Direct–SUMMER 2021

Hard copies will reach mailboxes in the coming the days. Until then, here is the electronic version of our Summer 2021 issue. To see past issues, visit wssda.org/direct.

Interim: Mental Health

This week, WSSDA’s strategic advocacy team launched the first Leg Reps Learn of the 2021 interim. These webinars will be offered at no cost to WSSDA members on topics related to WSSDA’s advocacy efforts. Leg Reps Learn The first webinar of the 2021 interim…