Myra Arnone | Director of Accelerated Programs

425-936-1376 | myarnone@lwsd.org

The Director of Accelerated Programs provides leadership for the development and implementation of accelerated learning programs and services including: Early Entrance Kindergarten, Highly Capable, Honors, Advanced Placement and College in the High School. Ms. Arnone collaborates with district leaders, school principals and teams to ensure that services and programs increase student access and engagement, close achievement and opportunity gaps and support student learning and success. She provides oversight of established district processes and policies pertaining to choice schools, and provides leadership and technical assistance in the request for proposal (RFP) process. She collaborates with district and school leaders in the identification, development, and implementation of innovative programs in alignment with district policy and oversees district summer school.

Accelerated Programs organizational chart

Department webpage: Accelerated Programs

Nyla Fritz | Director of Secondary Teaching & Learning & CTE

425-936-1413 | nfritz@lwsd.org

Ms. Fritz provides leadership for the district’s adoption and implementation of standards-based teaching and assessment for grades 6-12. She oversees the implementation of state student learning standards and the adoption, development, integration and implementation of curriculum aligned to standards for grades 6-12. Ms. Fritz ensures staff participation, parent involvement, and community engagement in the processes pertaining to the adoption of instructional materials that increase student access and engagement, close achievement and opportunity gaps, and support student learning and success. In addition, Ms. Fritz provides leadership to ensure that every student has access to rigorous and relevant career-connected learning that prepares students for post-secondary success and access to high-skill, high-wage and in-demand jobs. Ms. Fritz assumes responsibility for developing relationships with community, business, and higher education partners to collaborate with the district in developing and implementing offerings that increase student access and engagement, close opportunity gaps, and increase student learning and success. The director provides oversight of the High School and Beyond Plan and school-based Career Centers and Specialists, Career and Technical Education (CTE) program development and compliance, and the Washington Network for Innovative Careers (WANIC) Skill Center, for which Lake Washington serves as host district. She also oversees technology integration to support teaching and learning for grades 6-12 and manages textbook inventory processes.

Kelly Pease | Director of K-5 Teaching & Learning Services

425-936-1276 | kpease@lwsd.org

Ms. Pease provides leadership to ensure success for students receiving academic interventions, services to help students acquire English language proficiency, services for Native American students, and services designed to help mitigate the effects of poverty on student learning and success in school. She supports efforts focused on ensuring academic success for every student by collaborating with district leaders, school principals, and teams to develop tiered instruction to increase student access and engagement, close achievement and opportunity gaps, and support student learning and success. Ms. Pease assumes responsibility for district and school compliance with federal Title I, Part A and Title III of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

Intervention Services organizational chart

Department webpage: Academic Support

Julián Cortés | Director of Multilingual Learning

425-936-1390 | jcortes@lwsd.org

Mr. Cortés provides leadership to ensure success for students receiving services to help acquire English language proficiency. He supports the efforts of the multilingual program with a focus on equitable practices that center the needs of students at the core of services. Mr. Cortés collaborates with district leaders, building administrators and multilingual teachers to implement instruction and support with the goal of increasing student access to the English language in the general education setting. He ensures that English learners are appropriately identified and receive services that best fit their individual educational needs. Mr. Cortés assumes responsibility for district and school compliance with Title III of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

Emily Young | Director of Professional Learning

425-936-1324 | emyoung@lwsd.org

Ms. Young provides leadership for the development and implementation of professional learning systems for both certificated and classified staff. She collaborates with district leaders, school principals and teams to develop professional learning for staff focused on increasing student access and engagement, closing achievement and opportunity gaps, supporting student learning and success, and enhancing staff productivity and efficacy. Ms. Young collaborates with the Human Resources department to assist with systems and processes to ensure appropriate onboarding, orientation, and training for new employees. She assumes responsibility for the district’s New Teacher Support Program, Professional Learning Coach program, manages student teacher placement processes, and develops relationships with university and community partners to support staff learning.

Professional Learning organizational chart

Forrest Baker | Executive Director of Technology Services

425-936-1420 | fbaker@lwsd.org

Mr. Baker provides overall leadership for the success of the district’s technology operations, ensuring robust and reliable infrastructure to support student learning and productivity of district staff. He oversees the capital technology levy which funds staff and student technology, classroom equipment, instructional software, business and building systems, third-party managed services, and professional development. His team provides customer support to staff, students and parents. Mr. Baker also oversees teams that run data center and network, voice systems, Office 365 and Azure, application provisioning, software automation and computer imaging, equipment acquisition, deployment and maintenance, and Microsoft Teams.

Technology Operations organizational chart

Department webpage: Technology Services