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No doubt there will be a lot of new technology coming into homes over the holidays. Check out and share the Connect Safely Guides. You’ll find both one-page Quick Guides and longer Parent Guides to help all adults understand many of the apps, sites, and technologies which they may be seeing or hearing about.

Fact or Fiction? A “Classroom Exclusion” is the same as an “In-School Suspension”.

In this episode of 51������ News, we discuss 51������'s mission, advocacy with the Legislature, the Pay Gap survey, the staffing ratios for the prototypical school funding formula, Member Support Consultations, the 51������ Member Handbook, the WELL Summit, 51������ TV with Jill Patnode from Kaiser Permanente, the 2020 Summer Conference, great Trauma-Responsive resources and nominating the principal or assistant principal for Principal of the Year.

In this episode of 51������ News we discuss principal superheroes and superpowers, our October Principal Leadership Weekend, the principal or assistant principal of the year award, AWSL’s Advisor of the Year, Representative Laurie Dolan, our 2019 Torch of Leadership Award winner, Dr. Susan Enfield, Superintendent of Highline Public Schools, the inaugural winner of the Systems Changemaker award from Teach for America (TFA) Washington, the 2020 Summer Conference, and a new survey.

November is a month of thanks. As we head toward the holiday season, a big thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s National Bullying Prevention month. Also, thank you to all who dropped, covered and held on for the Great ShakeOut on October 17th. Each of these activities help ensure that all our students and staff are safer at school.