Our mission
Lead, serve and innovate for learning
Strategic Compass
We’ve created what we call a “strategic compass” to guide us in our work.
Our priorities
- Infuse equity in all programs and work
- Build upon our work with districts and expand community partnerships
- Grow teaching and learning support
- Employ strategic communication and marketing
- Strengthen internal and external leadership capacity
Our vision
- Continuously learn and improve
- Be responsive, efficient and equitable, and provide best-in-class customer service
- Recruit, support and retain talented employees
- Develop the leadership capacity of our organization and those we serve
- Maximize impact to all we serve through proactive collaboration and innovation
- Communicate and engage effectively
- Create an inclusive, barrier-free environment in which everyone participates and fully benefits
- Provide our employees and our customers with high-quality facilities, technology and resources
- Be good stewards of our human and financial resources
- Commit fully to the health, safety and well-being of employees, and all children
Our core values
- Collaboration
- Integrity
- Respect
- Excellence
Our core values
Equity
Our commitment to equity, outlined above in our Strategic Compass, is central to our work. We are dedicated to providing leadership and services that model equitable best practices. We understand that systemic injustices exist, and work to recognize and interrupt systems that perpetuate disproportionate outcomes. Along with other tools and protocols, we use the Oregon Equity Lens as a guide to intentionally evaluate and analyze policies, decisions and service outcomes to ensure they are most beneficial to the school districts and community partners we serve.
To learn more about our commitment to equity contact:
Clackamas Education Service District News
Clackamas ESD Regional Art Show highlights middle and high school students’ talent
Nearly 200 middle and high school students representing nine school districts in Clackamas County will share their artistic talents publicly when the eighth annual Clackamas Education Service District Regional Art Show opens March 25. More than 30 teachers in 23 schools submitted student work to this year’s art [...]
Clackamas Early Learning Center set to open in late summer 2024
This fall, Clackamas Education Service District will open a new facility devoted to the needs of Clackamas County's youngest learners and their families. The Clackamas Early Learning Center is on schedule to open in August. Through an extensive renovation, we’re turning a former health services clinic into a new facility [...]
Local libraries a key link to early learning services
Morning story time has just ended at the Gladstone Public Library, and an 18-month-old girl has made her way into an adjacent book-filled room with her mom. “Do you want to sit at the table and draw lines?” a friendly young woman asks. That question is all it takes to [...]