SLC: Science Leadership Collaborative

Welcome to the Science Leadership Collaborative

We are a collaborative network of the North Sound LASER Alliance, South Sound LASER Alliance, and Puget Sound ESD.

The Puget Sound Science Leadership Collaborative gathers science education leaders from the 35 schools districts in the Puget Sound ESD region to learn and work together. Our primary purpose is to help teachers improve their practices and school systems remove their systemic barriers to benefit every student in our care.

We know that a focus on the learning needs of students who have been historically marginalized from success in science/STEM learning and from STEM careers is critical to meeting our purpose.

"Anytime an operating system - like a school or a curriculum - consistently fails a specific subset of people, there is not something wrong with the people (in this case, children). There is something wrong with the system - the institution or the curriculum."

~ Cornelius Minor

We Got This: Equity, Access & the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be

As such, our intention is to become the racial equity leaders our students need us to be.

“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And that’s the only way forward.”

~ Ijeoma Oluo

So You Want to Talk about Race

The Science Leadership Collaborative has three kinds of gatherings: Learning Events (2 hours monthly, for 35 school districts in King and Pierce Counties), Translation to Leadership Events (1 hour weekly, in Professional Learning Communities of district science leaders), and Leadership in Action (each district science leader at work in their context).

SLC gatherings are for all K-12 district science leaders.No membership fees ... District and school administrators are welcome.

Map of Puget Sound ESD service area for the Puget Sound ESD, the South Sound LASER Alliance, and the North Sound LASER Alliance. 35 school districts, 257 private schools, 9 charter schools, 1 tribal school, 432,000 students

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