NorthEast Washington ESD 101

News Releases

• National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: October 26
• 2024 Regional Classified Employee of the Year and 2025 Regional Teacher of the Year Announced!
• Cheney Public Schools and the Medical Lake School District Awarded Purple Star Awards
• National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: April 27
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards 2023 Press Release
• Celebrating Creativity and Talent: The 51st Annual Regional High School Visual Art Show Awards
• National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: Saturday, October 28th 
• Connecting Talent with Opportunity
• Pullman Public Schools staff selected as 2024 Regional Classified School Employee and Teacher of the Year
• Colfax joins statewide initiative to prevent underage use of alcohol and other drugs
• Wilbur-Creston joins statewide initiative to prevent underage use of alcohol and other drugs
• NEWESD 101 selected to lead local suicide prevention coalition
• 1,000 Lives Changed, Now and Forever
• Darren Nelson to serve as Assistant Superintendent of NEWESD 101 (effective July 1, 2023)
  
  

In the News 

2024-25 School year

• KREM 2 - DOJ awards NorthEast Washington Educational Service District $1 million for school safety programs
• The Chewelah Independent - Mary Walker's Tammy Ward named regional classified employee of the year 

2023-24 School year

• The Facts - High School Students Across Washington Honored in State Superintendent's Art Show
• Journal of Business - ESD 101 awarded $200K for youth homelessness intervention
• The Spokesman-Review - The Spokane Regional Opioid Task Force announced it was ending this month. Now it may continue in 2024 
• The Spokesman-Review - East Valley School District adding mental health screenings and counseling
• The Spokesman-Review - 'Exponential change brought to life': How educators are using artificial intelligence to teach
• KXLY - 'It feels amazing': Youth Build helps young adults in East Central Spokane get to next stage of life
•  The Spokesman-Review - 'You can save a life': Spokane Regional Health District encourages inclusion of Narcan in your first aid kit

2022-23 School Year

• KHQ NonStop LOCAL - Professionals across the region gather for safety summit to protect students
• The Spokesman-Review - Educational Notebook: ESD hosting career fair
• Spokane Public Radio - Four eastern Washington schools to get federal energy money
• The Spokesman-Review - Local groups will host prescription medication take-back sites on Saturday
• KREM 2 - Safer Neighborhoods Town Hall tonight in Spokane
• The UDL Approach - Lindsay Hicks Frazier, NEWESD 101 Inclusionary Practice Project Lead
• KREM 2 - Spokane schools put twist on March Madness
• Valley School District Valley Voice - Grants Enriching Healthy School Meals
• Fox 28 - Workforce Wednesday - Celebrating 1000 GED Graduates
• KHQ - NEWESD 101 Educates Teachers in STEM
• The Spokesman-Review - Education Notebook: Trades information night
• The Spokesman-Review - Educators to host virtual workshop on dangers of social media: 'They're trying to use our brains against us'
• Whitman County Gazette - SUPER Colfax, Programs to educate Students and Community about Substance Prevention
• The Spokesman-Review - Education Notebook: Valley educators win regional recognition
• School Transportation News - The Importance of Creating a Safety Plan Is Executing It

2021-22 School Year

• The Spokesman-Review - 'A teacher's dream': On Track Academy's Rachel Peterson harnesses 'Innocent Rumination' into new passion
• The Spokesman-Review - Addressing mental health and suicide for teens, as survey data show increased challenges following pandemic
• The Spokesman-Review - Cheney superintendent Robert Roettger announces "bittersweet" transition to lead ESD101; no successor named yet
• KREM 2 - Some Eastern Washington, North Idaho schools moving to virtual learning due to high COVID-19 cases
• KXLY - 'You don't have to walk alone': New in-person recovery group starts for women battling addiction
• KHQ - Preventing instances of violence in schools before they happen
• KXLY - Local trade professionals and educators work together to help people find their dream career 
• The Spokesman-Review - 'They started to connect with themselves and their peers': Spokane Juvenile Detention Center and Poet Jordan create Art Dojo project for incarcerated youth
• KXLY - School leaders wonder what's next now that vaccine mandate deadline passed
• KXLY - 'That was the hole inside of me': Overdoses climb nationwide, survivors stress prevention to saves lives 
• KXLY - How to See a Free Documentary on Suicide Prevention Day

2020-21 School Year

• The Spokesman-Review - Early learning: Suicide prevention advocate creating curriculum to encourage kindness, empathy starting in kindergarten
• KREM 2 - Graduation, in-person learning to continue even if Spokane County moves back to Phase 2
• The Spokesman-Review - Schools get $3 million loan for PPE

2019-2020 School Year and earlier

• The Inlander - A new way to handle student threats is sweeping through Washington schools. Here's what it looks like
• The Spokesman-Review -Education Notebook: STCU awards $27,000 in grants to area teachers
• The Spokesman-Review Broadway Elementary's Analisa McCann receives ESD 101 regional teacher of the year award
• The Spokesman-Review - ESD 101 conference center expansion finished
• WGU Washington - Superintendent of NorthEast Washington Educational Service District joins WGU Washington Advisory Board
• The Spokesman-Review - Unique partnership gives young people hands-on experience