September 7 Edition

AWSA Update

Your Leadership Matters: Leveraging EE for More Impact in 2022-23

As a new school year and annual EE cycles get underway, this article is designed to both highlight recent DPI updates regarding EE flexibilities and encourage you to consider how you view and approach the opportunities that EE provides in 2022-23 to secure a higher result for all the effort and thereby raise prospects for impacting teaching practices and student learning like never before. Read more here.

To Ban or Not to Ban - That is the Question: The Latest on Student Free Speech Rights

It is important to remember that students have constitutional rights to free speech and the right to express themselves through various means, including their clothing. A little over 50 years ago, the United States Supreme Court ruled that students don't “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”  Read more here.

Adolescent Literacy Series: Annotation and Personal Inquiry

As part of the series on The Seven Proficiencies, this article focuses on annotation and personal inquiry.  We want our students to interact with text in a personal way; to make inquiries and comments that demonstrate their learning in a way that makes sense to them. Read more here.

Articles from Wisconsin DPI’s Division for Learning Support

This resource includes links to thirty articles that DPI’s Division for Learning Support has developed for AWSA over the last several years.  The articles range from the Role of the LEA Representative in IEP Meetings to What Administrators Need to Know about Seclusion and Restraint.  Read more here.

Give Students the Tools to Develop a Top Notch Service Resume

Schools, student groups and individuals who make service a priority play an important role in their community.  Do you know all the great things your students are doing for your community?  Are you looking for ways to celebrate the success of your students’ service projects in an authentic, easy and meaningful way? If you answered “yes,” then I encourage you to bring this free resource to your school community. Read more here.

September 21st Edition 

Update to Member Alert on Cutting Statewide Support for School Leaders

On September 13th, AWSA alerted members about the DPI not supporting statewide in-depth professional learning and coaching support as it has done in the past.  The alert asked members to contact the State Superintendent to support the AWSA Board of Directors’ request to fund this important work. On September 15th, the Department responded in a letter to the AWSA Board that stated that the DPI would “seek out and advocate for future opportunities with AWSA.”  AWSA leadership looks forward to working with the Department to identify these opportunities for support and will keep members updated.