AWSP Blog

AWSP continually seeks opportunities to enhance support of Washington’s principals and assistant principals. AWSP is thrilled to partner with BTS Spark to provide proactive support for individual school leaders like you! Through this partnership, AWSP members can access confidential, personalized and affordable leadership coaching at a discounted rate ($120 off a full coaching package). Read more to learn how to sign up to access personalized leadership coaching for you and/or your team.

Empower your students to make water safe decisions by registering your school for the free Water Safe Washington K-8 lesson! Drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related death for children ages 5-14, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Share the registration confirmation with ALL of your teaching staff to allow teachers to sign up individual classes and receive the emailed lesson plan. Early sign ups will receive supporting materials: backpack charms, stickers, and certificates. (Supplies are limited.) Read more to find out how to register.

AWSP is celebrating YOU this October for National Principals Month! We’ve partnered with Books Are Fun to bring an exciting surprise to AWSP members and their students. Books Are Fun is offering an opportunity that supports your students and comes with a meaningful reward for you. Books Are Fun is offering a $500 AWSP professional learning scholarship to the first 50 AWSP members/schools who partner with Books Are Fun to launch the Book Blast program at their school between now and December 10. This scholarship can be used toward any one AWSP conference, workshop, webinar, or series.

While virtually every school leader wishes they had more resources to support their school improvement efforts—more time, funding or staff—they also know their most valuable resource isn’t a line in the budget, calendar, or policy manual. It’s their staff’s minds: their knowledge, mindset and motivation. School leaders routinely invest in professional development aligned to improvement goals because of its potential to grow not only new skills but also staff buy-in. Yet often professional development (PD) that educators experience fails on both fronts, because of its transactional, sit-and-get approach. Luckily, there is a better way: To grow your team’s practice and positively influence mindsets, give teachers the kind of learning you want them to design for students. Learn more from AWSP's business partner, sideby.

Washington Breathes has two active surveys for middle and high school staff to inform our work across the state. We know school staff are always busy, so these are ongoing surveys without a specific deadline for responses. We will share the aggregated data from these surveys to inform school leaders, community leaders and policymakers about the challenges our schools face with youth commercial tobacco use . We will avoid describing the data in any way that identifies an individual school. Please take the surveys linked in this post.