PUGET SOUND ESD

Mission Statement

The Principles That Guide Our Culture and our commitment to becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization is the established values-based framework of this agency. We hold each other accountable to sustaining these Principles to meet the Agency END: Success for each child and eliminate the Opportunity Gap. Our Guiding Principles • We trust and are trustworthy. • We support risk-taking and view unexpected results as opportunities to learn. • We act with integrity and treat each other with respect. • We value and seek diversity and the participation, initiative and opinions of others. • We solicit, provide and share information and ideas with each other and our customers. • We foster joy, laughter, celebration and health. • We support personal growth and continuous learning through the use of regular feedback and communication. • We work in cooperation with each other and depend on teamwork. • We have a personal responsibility to do our best work in providing quality education, leadership and service. • We resolve conflict in an open, effective and timely way. • We commit to continuous evaluation and hold ourselves accountable for improvement of results. • We anticipate and respond to each customer’s evolving needs and actively seek creative and innovative solutions.