Save the Date - The 2025 Youth Advocacy Summit is November 1st in Spokane

Upcoming LEVinar: The Association of Washington School Principals’ School Leader Paradigm

What makes a school or district leader successful? What leads to failed leadership? What contributes to the need for a leadership change?

In our free webinar on Thursday, August 28, we will spotlight the School Leader Paradigm, co-developed by the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP) along with other state principal associations, and already in use across the state and country. Learn how we can reduce the churn of leaders and create new systems built around professional growth versus evaluation. Also, a panel of school principals will share how they operationalize the leadership paradigm in their daily work.

New LEV podcast episode: Zaretta Hammond on Culturally Responsive Teaching

In this episode, League of Education Voters CEO Arik Korman interviews Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, about how culturally responsive teaching supports students in the classroom, how best to embed equity into education in Washington state, what worked and what didn’t work in her own education journey, and how she would change Washington’s education system if she were in charge and there were no budgetary constraints.

Zaretta’s new book, Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power: Teaching for Instructional Equity and Cognitive Justice, will be published in September. Sign up for her newsletter at CRTandTheBrain.com

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, or Spreaker

LEVinar Recording: The Washington state Office of Equity

The Office of Equity was created with Washington state’s RCW 43.06D in 2020. The office began its work in 2021, and as a new office within state government, many want to understand more about the work being done in the office and how it plans to impact Washingtonians.

In this webinar, we learn about the Office of Equity’s work from its Communications Director, TraeAnna Holiday. She shares insights into their approach to executing that RCW, featuring examples that showcase the practical application of systems change work that the office is leading. We then explore these topics with a panel of students from the Association of Washington Student Leaders (AWSL) and answer your questions.

Students discuss:

• What they would consider ‘systems change’ work
• How they would like to gain access to state government
• How government can serve them better, and
• The issue they are most passionate about and possible solutions

Student Panelists:

• Abby Wu, a senior at Pullman High School in the Pullman School District and a member of the Association of Washington Student Leaders (AWSL)
• Aisha Hamad Sallah, a junior at Mariner High School in the Mukilteo School District and a member of AWSL
• Chiamaka Lekwauwa, a junior at Rogers High School in the Puyallup School District and a member of AWSL
• Geraldine Donovan, a sophomore at Seattle Prep and a member of AWSL
• Jack Farrell, a senior at Inglemoor High School in the Northshore School District and a member of AWSL