Making cookies with Grandma. Learning the prayer before meals. Identifying which berries are safe to eat. These are all examples of cultural learnings we absorb at home long before we step into a classroom.
Education researchers have been known to prioritize this classroom learning over the culturally-specific learnings we get at home, like heritage, history, and language. In the second installment of our 2023 State of the Children blog series we go behind the curtain of Washington STEM's co-design process in which a group of diverse parents and caregivers from across the state shaped the reports by sharing their experiences accessing child care.
As co-designers of the updated regional reports, they provided insights on what data is missing and had the final say in how their stories were told. Read on to learn how, through the co-design process, Washington STEM strives to give everyone "the Beyoncé treatment".
If you've ever wondered what day-to-day advocacy work is like in Olympia, check out the Advocacy Diariesto see how our policy team navigated a hybrid legislative session, built relationships, and served up some pie during the 2023 session!
Washington STEM is proudly partnering with OSPI's Office of Native Education (ONE) ona new project aimed to improve accuracy in how Native students in Washington are represented in statewide education data. This new methodology, known as Maximum Representation, is changing the game after decades of undercounting and misidentifying Native students.
Read the Seattle Times interview with Henry Strom, head of ONE, to learn more about the impact of Indigenous learning in K-12 public schools.
About half of U.S. workers had to reduce their work hours because of lack of child care. But investments in high-quality, on-site child care have the triple-bottom line of recovered revenue, employee retention, and thriving young learners. (See a recent op-ed in The Seattle Times calling for more employer-provided, on-site child care).
Our Family Friendly Workplace reports give regional insights into how businesses can better support families and cut costs at the same time.
