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Leading for Inclusion:
A Transformational Convening
Join leadership teams for two immersive days of strategy, alignment, and action to strengthen belonging-centered schools.
This convening is designed for district and school leaders who are ready to move beyond dialogue and into sustainable systems change — particularly for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and Black students with disabilities.
Upcoming Community Events
Washington
Family & Community Engagement (PTSA Partners)
ASWR is facilitating regional PTSA partnership sessions—designed specifically for PTSA leaders to help shape what inclusive practices look like across Washington.
These 90-minute virtual sessions elevate family voice, surface shared priorities, and directly inform statewide strategies and resources.
Upcoming Sessions:
TBD
Reserve your spot and represent your PTSA in shaping what’s next →
Now is the time to ensure your voice is part of what comes next.
Family & Community Engagement (Students, Families & Community Members)
ASWR is hosting regional engagement sessions—creating space for students, families, and community members to share experiences, elevate priorities, and help shape more inclusive practices across Washington.
These 90-minute virtual sessions are designed to center community voice, strengthen connection, and ensure lived experiences directly inform statewide strategies and resources.
Upcoming Sessions:
Virtual, Student+Parent-focused on Saturday, June 13 at 12pm PST
Virtual, Student+Parent-focused on Sunday, June 14 at 3pm PST
Join a session and help shape what’s next for students and families →
Now is the time to ensure your voice is part of what comes next.
Seattle Community Connections Fair Co-Hosted with Hamlin Robinson School Learning Center
Learn More Here!
From Learning to Launch: Applying Lessons for the Year Ahead (Statewide Learning Series)
About the Series:
As part of the IPTN statewide learning series, ASWR will host webinars and open office hours to highlight promising practices from the field. These sessions are designed to ensure districts, ESDs, and partners have direct access to timely, field-tested strategies they can apply in practice.
This next session will build from our first webinar, From Learning to Practice: Re-Centering Inclusive Practice, which focused on OSPI/IPTN alignment, TA Sprints as a rapid-cycle learning model, emerging promising practice patterns from the field, and the conditions that support inclusive practice.
Webinar Focus:
This webinar will help participants move from learning to launch by applying key lessons, promising practices, and implementation insights from this year’s IPTN work. The session will support districts, ESDs, and partners in thinking about what inclusive practice requires as they prepare for the year ahead.
Office Hours Focus:
The office hours will serve as application and sensemaking spaces where participants can translate webinar learning into practice, bring real-time questions or implementation challenges, and receive peer and facilitator support.
Audience:
District leaders, ESD partners, school teams, educators, specialists, and partners supporting inclusive practices across Washington.
Format:
Virtual statewide learning series, including one webinar and two open office hour sessions.
Webinar: Tuesday, August 18, 9:00–10:00 AM
Open Office Hours: Wednesday, August 19, 7:30–8:15 AM
Open Office Hours: Thursday, August20, 3:30–4:15 PM
Registration:
Coming Soon!
The Call In
Tuesdays at 4 PM & Wednesdays at 7:30 AM
Free 30-minute sessions for WA educators, families, and community partners. Confidential space, practical tools, and strategies for inclusion.
Join Session
Leading for Inclusion: A Transformational Convening
2 Day Series | Puget Sound Educational Service District Region, Renton WA
Day 2: August 11 | 8:00 AM-4:00 PM
District and building leaders committed to strengthening inclusionary practices for learners with disabilities—particularly students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and Black students with disabilities—and inclusive leaders of all identities, including leaders of color.
Register
Leading for Inclusion: A Transformational Convening
2 Day Series | Pasco, WA
TBD
District and building leaders committed to strengthening inclusionary practices for learners with disabilities—particularly students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and Black students with disabilities—and inclusive leaders of all identities, including leaders of color.
Coming Soon!
2026 Integrated MTSS Conference
July 28-30 | Wenatchee, WA
More Details Coming Soon!
Massachusetts
Workforce Training Fund Express Program
Lead the Change: A 9-Session Series to Build Inclusive Teams and Transform Workplace Culture
This live virtual leadership program helps organizations strengthen leadership capacity, improve team collaboration, and build healthier workplace cultures. The program includes 9 interactive sessions (2 hours each) focused on practical tools leaders can apply immediately.
Check Workforce Grant Training Eligibility
ASWR In the News
BECMA Vanguard Awards- Transformation Award Honoree: Dr. Natasha Holmes
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(Press Release - January 2026)And Still We Rise Among 2025 Best Places to Work
(published by Boston Business Journal)Goal Setting in the New Year (interview with ASWR Founder Natasha Holmes)
(published by Lesbos)To center marginalized patients, this therapy practice uses an uncommon approach: a liberation framework
(published by The Boston Globe)
We Asked 10 Local Therapists Their Advice As We Enter 2022: Here Are Their Responses
(published by The Boston Globe)It’s Becoming Impossible to Find a Therapist
(published by The Boston Globe)Building & Sharing Solidarity Series to Help Residents Process June’s Acts of Violence
(published by Town of Winthrop News)
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