King County Professional Learning System

School’s Out Washington (SOWA) is both honored and excited to partner with Best Starts for Kids (BSK) King County to introduce the King County Professional Learning System to support free and accessible professional development and training opportunities for organizations and/or individuals that are:

• BSK Strategy 5-24 grantees 
• BSK – OST grantees 
• Housing and Expanded Learning Opportunities (HELO) cohort members 
• City of Seattle (DEEL) cohort members 
• Licensed school-age CCAP providers  
• Licensed school-age childcare providers regardless of county (through partnership with Department of Children, Youth, & Families) 

What to expect

Beginning in early 2021, access to a robust training calendar via School’s Out Washington’s website. This training calendar will be updated quarterly and hold all trainings available through this system. We hope this supports organizations and individuals to better plan out their quality improvement and professional development opportunities in advance. Trainings will be a mix of SOWA curated trainings, partner organization specialized content – including the Weikart Center’s Youth Program Quality Intervention trainings, and external contracted facilitators to support a variety of field expertise and experiences.

Our vision

To have clear pathways to support organizations in building and sustaining high-quality programming with easier access and navigation to engage with our services. 

How to engage

check out our available trainings on our calendar. Sign up for our newsletter to get notified when we update our calendar with new training opportunities and find other ways to engage with SOWA.

Questions

About how to engage with this training system, email Janell Jordan jjordan@schoolsoutwashington.org

Questions regarding a specific training opportunity and/or registration, please email our training team at training@schoolsoutwashington.org

Note: During the Coronavirus pandemic SOWA is committed to supporting your organization and staff’s professional development and training needs. Until further notice all trainings will be FREE and virtual to any youth development and/or educational professional regardless of geographic location, organization/company, or relationship to SOWA. 

Calendar of Workshops