EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSAGE

Hello everyone! 

Graduation celebrations are well underway at many school districts across the state and nation, congratulations graduates!!  There is still time to sign up for the HELP program!  The twenty-fourth HELP series is being held in Leavenworth at the Icicle Village Resort again this year at the  and it will run from July 10-14.  If you have not attended a previous HELP session, please take a serious look at the offerings below and consider attending one of the sessions.

As many of you may already be aware, WSPA works closely with WASA in developing a Legislative Platform and obtains reports as the Legislature is in session.  We are currently working with WASA and other associations in developing our 2024 Legislative Platform and I am looking for input from WSPA members as to concerns and priorities so I can share them with the committee.  If you have ideas/concerns, please forward them to me soon.

Our WSPA board will meet in the middle of July to develop our budget and activities for the 2023-24 year and if you have ideas or concerns you want to bring up, either email Jane Stencel, our outgoing President and Professional Development Coordinator, me, or our incoming President, Doug Christensen.  Our email addresses are listed below.

Doug Christensen, Assistant Superintendent at Kennewick SD; WSPA President 2023-24: doug.christensen@ksd.org

Jane Stencel, Executive Director at East Valley SD; WSPA President 22-23; WSPA Professional Development Coordinator: stencelj@evsd.org  Darrell Heisler, Executive Director of WSPA: dheisler@wspa.net

Member Request this week:

No requests this week

Funny of the week: "A man who was looking for work was knocking on doors in the neighborhood and one lady finally answered.  The man asked her, "Do you have any work that needs to be done, I could really use some money", the lady thought for a bit and then said, "yes my porch needs painting", the man was so excited he got to work right away, after about two hours he knocked on the door again and the lady answered.  The man told her, "I have finished, but I have to tell you that you have a BMW, not a Porsche..."

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• July 10-14, 2023 - HELP & Summer Series-Icicle Village Resort-Leavenworth (IP)
• HELP Program I, II, III
• HELP LEGAL Boot Camp
• HELP Classified Boot Camp
• HELP Reboot 2.0
• October 9-10, 2023-LAW Conference-South Center Double Tree (IP)
• March 3-6, 2024-Annual Conference-Hilton Hotel-Downtown Vancouver, WA (IP)
• March 12, 2024-Washington Educator Career Fair-Spokane (IP)
• March 29, 2024(Tentative)-Washington Educator Career Fair-Tacoma (IP)

Have a great week everyone!

Darrell Heisler

WSPA Executive Director