Spring into Direct

Learning & advocating

Share the spring issue of WSSDA Direct with your friends and colleagues, or peruse back issues on a Sunday afternoon. In this edition, Shankar Vedantam, author of The Hidden Brain, offers advice in “The Art of Persuasion”. Drawn from the Legislative Conference keynote speech, Vedantam highlights the work of notable researchers in the field of psychology.

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Some of the highlights of this issue include: “How school boards direct WSSDA’s advocacy”, “Virtual school director candidate workshops”, and a staff favorite, “Big smiles for little faces”, in which past president, Aurora Flores discusses the importance of child literacy, and the elementary school book drive at WSSDA’s Annual Conference.