WASA Community Leadership Award

The Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA), Sno-Isle Region 109, held its annual awards ceremony May 15th at the Everett Golf & Country Club. The awards recognize exemplary contributions to K-12 school districts and their students, by both members of the community and educational professionals within our region. The Sno-Isle 109 region is one of eleven WASA statewide regions.

FASC was honored to be presented with the 2008 WASA Community Leadership Award for the Edmonds School District. We're pleased to have the administrators in our district and region recognize the importance of this work in providing equity of opportunity to all students. We believe this award speaks not just to the value of our work and contributions, but to the value of the students we serve.

School Board Celebrates FASC

The Edmonds School Board recognized FASC with the "School Board Celebrates..." award at the May 6th board meeting. The award may be given to "an employee who goes above and beyond, a parent who has contributed something special to our children, or a community member who has supported our children in an exceptional way."

Dr. Ellen Kahan, Assistant Superintendent, submitted the nomination for the award, citing FASC's commitment to raise awareness about issues affecting students of color.

During the meeting, the ESD/FASC Leadership teams also reported to the board on the group's history, organizational structure, accomplishments to date, and future direction. The report included supporting data regarding the disparities affecting students of color in our district, specifically in the areas of discipline, honors programs, and the achievement gap, as well as the underrepresentation of personnel of color in the district.

The board responded favorably to the report, and invited us to return with updates on the group's progress at some point next year. Community members also were very interested and supportive in our work, and we were happy to meet and connect with other district families and community members.

FASC thanks the board and the administration for their recognition of our work.

ESD/FASC Newsletter

We're very excited to announce the first issue of the ESD/FASC Newsletter. The newsletter is a joint venture between the Edmonds School District and FASC, and seeks to let the community know more about us, our work, and some of our accomplishments to date.

The newsletter will be distributed as an insert with school newsletters during April and May. For those schools that distribute their newsletters using electronic format, the ESD/FASC newsletter will be emailed along with the school newsletter as a .pdf file. All district staff will also receive a copy in their mailboxes.

The newsletter is also available as a link on the new diversity web pages on the ESD website, as well as a permanent link here on the FASC website, in the sidebar to the right, under "Our News & Shared Documents".

FASC would like to thank everyone who contributed and collaborated on this project. We're pleased to have this medium to reach out to our communities, and hope everyone enjoys reading it and getting to know us a bit more.