Social Emotional Learning Parent Advisory Team
The Parent Social Emotional Learning Parent Advisory Team is being created
to advise the Director of Social Emotional Learning and District
leadership staff on topics related to the strategic goals of the
District. Partnership with parents and guardians provides an important
voice in the District’s decision-making, planning, and implementation
process while continuing to be transparent in the current and future
work of the District.
The purpose of these teams is to provide two-way communications and
build transparency between the Social Emotional Learning Director and
the schools. The teams will serve in an advisory capacity to the
Director of Social Emotional Learning and will not have authority to
take action on behalf of the school District or make direct
recommendations to the Board of Education.
Parent Social Emotional Learning Advisory Team
Purpose:
The Social Emotional Learning Advisory Team to the Director of Social
Emotional Learning consists of parents and guardian representatives
from each of our schools. The team will meet three times during the 2023-24 school year to discuss a
variety of topics aligned to the goals of the District, share
information, and broaden understanding of school-related issues.
Members work together to:
*Identify common needs and goals among the parents of students enrolled in the School District of Washington.
*Provide the Director of Social Emotional Learning with feedback and
insight from each family’s perspective on school processes, policies,
and initiatives related to Social Emotional Learning to ensure that the
needs of families are included as decisions are made in the District.
*Facilitate communication between and among the families and family
organizations from District schools and serve as a forum for sharing
innovations and best practices from around the District.
Responsibilities:
*Members will attend and actively participate in all meetings. It is
understood that circumstances occasionally arise where a member will be
unable to attend a meeting; however, members who miss more than two
meetings in a single year will not be reappointed in the following
year.
*Members will embrace and adhere to the mission, vision, and values of the District.
*Members will pledge to interact with professionalism, courtesy, and respect to fellow members of the team and District staff.
*Members work together to be solutions-oriented in discussing a topic.
Meeting Dates:
The Parent Advisory Team will meet at the Technology and Learning Center from 5:30-7 p.m. on the following nights:
*Dates for the 2023-24 School Year
*Monday, October 16, 2023
*Monday, January 29. 2024
*Monday, April 22, 2024
Application and Selection:
*All parents may apply for the Parent Advisory Team; the applications are not limited to one parent or guardian per student.
*If you are interested in joining the Parent Advisory Team, please email [email protected]. In the email please include the building you are representing.
*If more than one parent is applying from a school site, there will
be a randomized selection process to determine the representative from
that school. Please note the middle school and high school will have two
representatives due to the size of the programming.
*If a parent on the team elects to remove their student from the
instruction provided by the District, their position on the panel will
be forfeited and an alternate parent will be selected.
*Parents will be selected for the 2023-24 school year on October 3. Placements on the Social Emotional Learning Advisory Team will be selected for one year. Parents may re-apply to the team annually if desired.