November 14, 2018 at 8:30 AM - Regular Meeting
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1. ESU Coordinating Council Information
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Board President
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2. Call to Order
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Board President
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Call to order at 8:30 AM.
Staff: David M Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana, Craig Peterson,
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3. Roll Call
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4. Approval of Minutes
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Board President
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REview of the minutes
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5. ESU Share Out Topics
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Board President
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6. Petitions and Communications to the Board
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6.1. State Board of Education and Nebraska Department of Education Report
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Nebraska Department of Education
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Russ Masco was presented to give the NDE update. The talking points have been sent out to administrators and affiliates please share with your schools. Russ Masco has been working on the questions/concerns. CCSI Facilitator training has begun and work together a couple days this week. CCSI Committee is being co-lead by Executive Director Ludwig and Lane Carr from NDE.
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6.1.1. Strategic Planning Process
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Board President
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6.1.2. OER Update/Presentation
Speaker(s):
Dorann Avey, Beth Kabes, Rhonda Eis
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Dorann Avey, NDE, Beth Kabes, Rhonda Eis were present to update on the OER. They gave a review of the website for the Nebraska OER Commons. TLT and participants will begin training and currating materials for the OER Hub tomorrow. They continue to have workshops to help currate materials and grow this website. The Special Projects TLT is working will become the ownship of the ESUCC once work is completed. They discussed the Service Plan and the upcoming year and moving to the Advanced Service plan. This will allow us to continue get standards updated as well. NDE will be covering the extra cost for the updagraded service plan. Next year they plan to go back to the basic plan as they shouldn't need the extra help/resources. NDE plans to have teachers currate materials for several content area like Science, PE, etc.
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6.2. Association of Education Service Agency's Report
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AESA Representative - Jeff West
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AESA update on annual conference, Nebraska has one of the top states attending the conference.
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6.3. Learning Community Update
Speaker(s):
Dave Patten
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6.4. NCSA Update
Speaker(s):
Mike Dulaney
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Dr Dulaney and Dr Ernst, NCSA were present to give an NCSA update. Senator Kolterman created a special retirement work group to discuss substiitute teachers and create a balance between protecting the retirement plan and the OCERP Plan. Senator Kolterman has decided to not pursue a substitiute bill. NPERS to finish their audit. NCSA will begin working with Team Mates and Senator Kolterman on definition of volunteer is clear and not interfer with coordinators jobs. NCSA started a Education Association Coalition to begin working together to commuicate together. Open Sky facilitate this meeting so no one side is more important. There is a need to look at other sources than just property tax relief. CPI (Consumer Price Index) could possibly be talked about this legislative session. They expect a bill for retirement plan to change from 2% state input. NCSA appreciates the invites to speak at Superintendent meetings. Resiliency is a good concept but fearful there will be an impact on education. Resiliency program run/offered through from EHA to help pay for this program. Hope to move plan forward slowly.
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6.5. Polk Dissertation Presentation
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Larianne Polk
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Larianne Polk wpresentedt her work on her dissertation on Nebraska ESU Legislation from 1992 to present. She will be sharing her dissertation on Thursday in Fedora 1, Embassey Suites at 4:30 PM. There is more information on the attachment on the agenda. There are three basic types of AEAs, cooporative (Type C) - this is Nebrasak, special disctrict (Type A) and regional (Type B). When ESUs were born in statute, it only passed by one vote. Black Hatters Group were against large government, calling ESUs Super Schools. She shared a timeline of her studies on NE ESUs Legislation.
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7. Executive Reports
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Board President
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7.1. Executive Director Report
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Executive Director Ludwig
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7.1.1. ESUCC Meeting/Agendas
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Executive Director Ludwig
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7.1.2. ESUCC Redesign: Update
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Committee Chair
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7.1.2.1. ESU Standards
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Committee Chair
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ESU Standards reported that they have had two meetings and reviewed the standards crosswalk document they have created. This document contains Advanced Ed Frameworks, Nebraska Standards, and committee chair and then they are going to synthesize to come up with what ESU/ESUCC standards may look like. After that they will share with the ESUCC Board, affiliates, etc for review.
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7.1.2.2. Joint Decision Making Parameters
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Committee Chair
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Joint Decision Making Chair shared they have not met but there is action taking place with more of a ground up effort. There ahs been some joint leadership estabolished on some committee work like OER, CCSI and others.
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7.1.2.3. SIMPL Inventory
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Committee Chair
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SIMPL Inventory Chair shared that they have recieved another ESU services. Don't expect more until January PDO.
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7.1.2.4. Value-Add Metric
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Committee Chair
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Value Add Chair shared that they have met, and have been reviewing vendors for the return on investment work. The committee has decided to move forward on our own and create it ourself. They will begin with PD Team (SIMPL) and figure out cost and COOP sales and services. Between the two they will get a feel of what need to request.
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7.1.2.5. Value Proposition
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Committee Chair
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Value Proposition Chair shared they met and worked together on a Google Doc to help narrow focus. Continue to work around the "What would we do, if we didn't have ESUCC."
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7.1.3. ESUCC Matrix/Structure of Support
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Executive Director Ludwig
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Executive Director shared the work being done across all associated work and how it all ties together. Shared the structure of support that was done the Fall of 2017. He reviewed the new document and how the plan to work with this document to tell our story. Importnat to share with schools, legislature, etc how involved and connected we
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7.2. Executive Committee Report
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Board President
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President shared discussion in committee. The committee is beginning to review policies, they are working on the 1000 series. The committee discussed CCSI and the work of the committee and the training for the facilitators. They reviewed the redesign process/updates.
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8. Public Comment
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Board President
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There was no public comments.
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9. Recommendations from Standing Committees and Project Reports
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Board President
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9.1. Finance, Audit, Budget Committee
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9.1.1. Approve Claims, Financials Statements, and Assets for Month of September and October
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Committee Chair
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Committee Chair reviewed September/October reports with the Board. The Committee continues to work on budget goals for future budgets.
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9.1.2. Approval of October Expenses to be paid in November.
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Committee Chair
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Committee Chair reviewed
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9.1.3. Recommend approval of December Claims as approved by Executive Director
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Chair shared to approve December claims by Exec Director
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9.2. Technology Committee
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Committee Chair
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Committee Chair discussion in committee. It is important the NDE is along side with the OER Hub. Discussed the reporting of ADVISER, will continue to work out the bugs and next time will be much smoother. The blendEd Special Projects is going well and will begin working with teachers next week. NOC meeting last week went well and currently discussing the need to meet with KSB to have a Q & A discussion. TLT will continue to discuss Learn360 and the impact if some ESUs do not participate. NE Math Readiness Project is to help sneior students that need help to get passed the college remedial. Nancy Movall will continue to work with Cory Hatt and NDE so that work can progress alongside of the statewide work we are doing. If you take both levels of this class, student will enter at College Level Math.
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9.3. Cooperative Purchasing Project
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Committee Chair
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Committee Cahir shared discussions in committee. Chair, Exec. Director, Coop Director met with legal to discuss future resources, work with other state, etc. Working to get Coopp back as a revenue stream. They will continue to follow and persue, etc. Post secondary Ed are working to share our info so that may be able to expanded the program. Discussion on Annual Paper Buy and the lack of manufacturing and the cost of pulp.
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9.3.1. Approve Special Buy Agreement with Impero
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Committee chair shared the motion at hand.
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9.3.2. Approve Special Buy contract extension with hand2mind Inc.
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Committee chair shared the motion at hand.
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9.3.3. Approve Addendum to Special Buy Agreement with JourneyEd
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Committee chair shared the motion at hand.
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9.4. PD Leadership Committee
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Committee Chair
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Committee Chair shared discussions in Committee. Lane Carr and Brad Portin were present to discuss CCSI, ELLC, NELN, etc. Executive Director shared the draft of the PD Leadership Structure so there will be more leadership across the committee. Discussion on January PDO, the ESUCC will meet the beginning of the same week. Discussion and approval of Brad Geise training at May PDO.
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9.4.1. PDO May - Brad Geise
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Committee Chair
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Discussion and approval of Brad Geise training at May PDO.
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9.5. Special Populations Committee
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Committee Chair
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Committee Chair shared discussion in committee. The committee had an overview of the new SRS platform. They will be looking for a few schools to pilot next semster and will be available to all next summer. Jean Anderson was present to give an update from ESPD meetings. Steve Millliken was present to give updates for NDE. The final financials will change for the upcoming years, to go from 3 down to 1 report. The NE School Mental Health Conference is on June 11-12, 2019 in Kearney. Call for proposals has opened up. Lots of great things ahppening across the state, showcase at this conference. There will be a school mental health survey coming out next week to ESU administrators, please have your staff help answer the survey.
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9.6. Legislative Committee
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Board President
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Committee Chair shared discussion in committee. NDE was present to help inform us on the K-3 Reading Program. They are collecting assessments to be published by March 1, 2019. Templates will be available for suppplement. Bromm was present to share legislative update. He expects that there may be additional changes to the Reading Bill. He gave updates on the election. There are still 3 open seats. One is a contested/recount and then there are two additional seats that open because of being elected into different seats. The recount should be settled this Friday. One returning to the legislature and is pro-education. Educational Chair could possible have someone running against Groene for the Education Chair position. Medicaid expansion bill passed. Expect Govenor to use as a bargaining chip. The aide to to Senator Groene has moved positions, he was a good advocate for education. Tenative calendar begins on January 9 - June 6. ESU Legislative Day will be on February 13, at the Bromm's Conference Room from 7:30-2:00 PM. Recommend to personally invite your senator.
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10. NEW ESU Chief Administrators
Speaker(s):
Executive Director Ludwig
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OER has been approved at ESU level, can we define further such as blogs, who owns when they leave the district. They will need to get approval from employer in order to take materials with, may need to remove all graphics that may be the ownership of the employer. Executive Director will ask legal for advise. How do you revamp a position to meet the current needs especially with marketing, etc.? Administrators how they meet the marketing, graphic needs for their ESUS. How often do they have superintendent meetings? Adminsitrators shared how each do their own meetings. Zoom meetings, etra meetings throughout the year like during legislative session, etc.
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11. Executive Session
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Board President
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12. Adjournment
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Board President
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Meeting adjourned at 11:38 AM.
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