Category: Blog

The Strategies that Work series highlights impactful programming that has supported Southeast Seattle students and beyond. As the November ballot gets closer, the Families, Ed[..]

In recent years, a major theme of SPS issues raised by families has been outreach, communication, engagement, and accountability.  More specifically, connecting with underser[..]

2026 has signified the aggressive movement of the Trump administration towards the federalization of white supremacy.  We saw this throughout last year and 2026 with the mass[..]

SESEC leadership, community partners, policymakers, funders, and advocacy groups can use the findings to guide strategic planning, shape equitable policies, and prioritize inv[..]

In the 2023–24 school year, a student's fatal shooting at Garfield High School reignited calls to bring School Resource Officers back. During an SPS Board Meeting, students,[..]

The issues we face today are immense and complicated. Climate change, growth of AI and other technology, social media, wars and ethnic cleansing (and genocide), wealth dispar[..]

hat standardized testing shouldn’t do is serve as the primary measure for school quality, student growth/learning, teacher quality, etc.  So, what are possible meaningful a[..]

Standardized testing is already quite culturally unresponsive, for example, test questions on U.S. slavery focus more on economics rather than the dehumanization of enslavemen[..]

Seattle Public Schools is grappling with budget deficits like many other districts across the country.  These budgeting issues are connected to inflation and the end of COVID[..]

Seattle Public Schools is grappling with budget deficits like many other districts across the country.  These budgeting issues are connected to inflation and the end of COVID[..]