Jessica Sutter Ward 6 Member DC State Board of Education

My final SBOE Newsletter of 2020 is out!
Merry & happy all the things to you and yours this holiday season. Please let me know what is on your mind as we head into 2021, the second half of this pandemic school year & hopefully brighter days ahead.

Bidding 2020 Farewell At the start of 2020, none of us could have imagined the year we would experience. As the year draws to a close and we wait, patiently, for better days ahead in 2021, I hope we take a moment to remember with gratitude the strength of our communities in helping all of our children and families throug...

26 volunteer advisors
19 Guiding Principles
6 months of work
1 big goal: Launching a revision of the out-of-date standards with guidance from the DC State Board Of Education & the Social Studies Standards Advisory Committee

It has been an honor to Co-Chair this effort with Ward 7 Member Karen Williams & I’m excited to send these to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education to keep the work moving!

Tune in to our live-streamed Public Meeting tomorrow night (12/16 @ 5:30pm) for our vote to adopt these Guiding Principles.

A great (albeit different) morning of masked up elbow high-fives & marching for around Lincoln Park. Thanks to for organizing something special! @ Lincoln Park DC

"Voting is how you voice your opinion on how your government should work. Not voting is silencing your voice - and the last thing we need is your silence."-
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I am as passionate about voting as Theo-dog is about sticks. We loved posing for , but we’d love it more if you’d make a plan to this fall!

Ballot Boxes are open all across DC beginning today & early in-person voting in DC begins October 27.

Spent the morning out and about in & visiting getting word out about the work. Want to provide feedback on what you think the new standards should include? Take our 3 Question survey at bit.ly/FeedbackSocialStudiesDC

Thank you to all the staff at & public charter schools who are masked up & in buildings making sure DC students & families can access meals and needed supplies. We appreciate you!! @ Southeast, Washington, D.C.

How satisfied are you with the social studies curriculum your student is currently learning? What do you think may be missing? Help the DC State Board Of Education Social Studies Standards Advisory Committee (SSSAC) develop revisions by completing this 3-question survey (https://bit.ly/3k8l9W7) Deadline is 10/6.

If you need assistance completing the survey, please email [email protected] or call 202.741.0888 for accommodations.

Thank you to DC Central Kitchen & all the DC Public Schools DCPS Food and Nutrition Services personnel making sure our DC students & families are nourished during the ongoing crisis. folks: Fresh produce is available at Eastern High School Mondays from 10-11:30am. See last photo for more Grocery Distribution Sites across the District. Spread the word! @ Eastern High School

I want to hear from you on how the first week of in is going. Have a question, want to compliment someone at a or comment on how is going? Share your feedback here:

#Ward6: SY20-21 #BackToSchool Feedback Have a comment, compliment, question about your child's first week back in a ? Wondering how to manage a problem for your student? Please share your feedback here, let me know who to help celebrate & how I can help fix what's not working quite right. Feedback is....

Happy First Day of School to & many public charter schools! While this is like we’ve never experienced before, I know that the teachers & administrators in all of our are thrilled to be back to daily contact with students & are working INCREDIBLY hard to help children & their families feel supported as they engage in this fall. I look forward to hearing how the first week goes! Let me know if you have comments, compliments or questions about how things are going for your student! @ Washington D.C.