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BUILD Success for Each Child and Eliminate the Opportunity Gap by 2020 Puget Sound Educational Service District is committed to research-based system-level leadership focused on learning improvement. The Board and staff of Puget Sound Educational Service District have established an over-arching mission (we call it an “End” in Policy Governance parlance) for our agency’s work: “Success for Each Child and Eliminate the Opportunity Gap by 2020.”
Over the past two years, PSESD staff have been involved in an agency wide initiative to learn about and fully understand the opportunity gaps that exist for students, and the impacts of equity, inclusion, culture and race on the gaps. We have also studied the ASCD “Whole Child” tenets for each child to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged; the theory and practice of collective impact; and leadership and instructional frameworks. Our agency is working to integrate this learning into every program and service we provide, and to establish the resources required to assist our region’s schools and educators in helping all students be successful. We have established strategies that we believe will help us achieve our End. They are captured in the acronym BUILD.
PSESD staff are engaged in one of five component “cohort groups,” each focused on one of the BUILD strategies. Each cohort is developing targeted action plans and progress indicators to support their specific strategy across the agency and our region. We have also aligned our BUILD work to support a civic, collective impact initiative called the Community Center for Education Results (CCER). This multi agency project is aimed at dramatically increasing student achievement in south Seattle and south King County – cradle to college and career – and closing the achievement gaps for low-income students and children of color. In the weeks and months to come, we will be sharing more specific information about our End and strategies, and the resources and services we are developing for our region. We plan to offer interactive tools and methods for sharing information among all schools in our region, to help build the strong partnerships and collaborations needed to eliminate the opportunity gap by 2020.
PSESD Superintendent Monte L. Bridges Receives National Leadership Award
Among the factors in Dr. Bridges’ award selection is his successful leadership of PSESD, developing programs to help schools and communities achieve success for all students. As superintendent for the past nine years, Dr. Bridges has built highly effective PreK-12 educational services and public/private partnerships in the areas of instructional support, staff development, student support services, educational technology, financial services and early learning. |
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Dr. Monte L. Bridges, Superintendent of Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD), has won the 2011 Justice A. Prentice Award, a prestigious national honor bestowed by the Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA). The award is given to an individual annually for outstanding contributions through executive leadership of regional educational service agency programs at the regional, state, and national levels. AESA is comprised of more than 550 educational service agencies across 45 states.