Colleagues -

Education service districts exist to serve students on the margins. We pull people together — students, educators, families, and elected leaders — to strengthen schools, connect systems, and expand access. I am deeply proud of the work we do at Northwest Regional ESD to safeguard our children while ensuring our educators are supported and our communities are connected.

Recent violence across the country — and closer to home in Northwest Oregon — have underscored the importance of fostering learning environments rooted in safety, dignity, care and belonging for all students and families.

People experience these events in different ways, shaped by their backgrounds and experiences. Our children are closely watching these events and how the adults around them respond. Public educators have a moral responsibility to model integrity, humanity, and clarity about our values. Our words and actions help shape how young people come to understand justice, belonging and what it means to participate in a democratic society.

Equity, meaning every child gets what they need to succeed, is a core value for our agency. The programming highlighted in this newsletter captures only a fraction of what my colleagues at Northwest Regional ESD — and across our twenty component school districts — are doing to expand opportunity and remove barriers for all students.

A free, accessible and meaningful public education system remains one of the most powerful structures for shaping a more just and compassionate future for our young people. So I start this month’s newsletter with a massive thank you to our region’s educators who continue to show up with care in their hearts and in their actions for every child — even through our darkest days.

Read the January Monthly Messenger. 

In partnership-

Dan Goldman
NWRESD Superintendent