April 3, 2018 at 1:00 PM - Special Population Committee Meeting

Discussion:  Nothing new for this discussion, Nathan Busch was not present.  

Discussion:  There will be discussions to align the MTSS work across the NDE goals and PDO goals.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair discussed the AT Grant, the statewide application and statewide coordinator (this has been given to a NDE person) but there will be 3 additional regional position. (OT, PT, Speech).  The application process has been moved to May.  

Discussion:  LB 998 has been moved to select file.  

Discussion:  Omaha Home for Boys will start using AAP in April.  NOVA Alternative School will be starting in May.  We will present on AAP (as well as other cross-systems information sharing systems) at the Data Conference on April 17^th.

Discussion:  They have been updating the Project Para Administrative pages.  Project Para Advisory Board meeting will be held May 2^nd

Discussion:  SRS Advisory Board met on March 15^th.  They received approval to allow District Managers and other supervisory level staff to un-finalize SRS forms.  They decided to require exit dates and exit reasons before student records can be transferred outside of the school district.  This will help ensure that districts collect this data for ADVISER.  SRS Director has been attending ADVISER Workdays at ESUs over the past three weeks.  Training data stewards on how to utilize SRS’s new ADVISER features.  Answer questions on ADVISER and NSSRS as they come up.  Feedback has been positive.  The data stewards have generally seemed pretty satisfied with what we have built and didn’t express any major concerns

SRS/ADVISER - The Data Analyst has built the code which will require exit dates and exit reasons to be entered before a student transfer can take place.  SRS Staff have been going through ADVISER data from our pilot schools to make sure they are accurate and coded properly.  Data Analyst has fixed most of the problems we have identified.  They will be providing two trainings sessions at the Data Conference on April 17 (9:45 & 3:00).  Their goal is to be 100% done with ADVISER by the Data Conference so that we can start signing up districts immediately afterward

Zend 3 Conversion - We are behind schedule right now.  It took much longer to complete the student search screen than we anticipated.  The Student Search screen is our most complicated page, and so far we have only had MindShine working on it.  We are going to focus on converting the site to ZF3 only.  They can add our backlog of user suggested features after the conversions have been completed  They will be able to take advantage of all the time saving features built into ZF3 to develop these new features quickly.  The site will be much easier to develop once we are at 100% ZF3.  They will be adding an additional MindShine Developer on April 2^nd for 3 months.

Discussion:  Meeting to be held on May 1 at 11:30AM, MTSS & AT/Steve, SRS, Illini Cloud.  

Discussion:  Meeting Adjourned at 1:36 PM.