January 3, 2018 at 11:00 AM - Executive Committee Meeting

Call to order at 11:00 AM

Staff:  David Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana, Colleen Lentz

Guests:  Joan Wade

Joan Wade was present to discuss the redesign process.  She gave an update on their new steps for their plan.  Their main goal to try and get everyone to start communication the same talking points on the importance of public education.  They will continue to work on creating affinity groups, they do need to collect data on those groups.  There are 2.5 people that are hired by AESA but the rest of the work is done by their members (administrators, SPED Directors, etc.)  The issue with design work is that you need to ok with the squishiness of it - free to speak feely.  The facilitator will work to pull out things that we don't even know should be there.  She wished that would have had more stakeholders at the table throughout the process.  The more diverse opinions we have, the better bold steps that will come out of process.  What is the context for AEAs and then what the context for the state association from this will create a mess map.  What would you want to have if you could?  Create challenges for the organizations and envisioning for the state organizations.  After the first two days, we will gather data from other stakeholders/associations.  The second two days of work will be a review of prior work and review the data collected from others, how design is iterate to the process.  Build off the low hanging fruit to work towards our ultimate goal.  The bold steps and how to implement those steps will come out of the second day.  The first day include ALL administrators, staff, PDO affiliate chairs,  should be part of our process.  NDE will be part of the data gathering between sessions.  It is really important to be face to face throughout the process, and do not use DL connections.  

The possibility of the Executive Committee to meet with facilitator and decide the process of who should be at this meeting.  

The draft of the calendar is ready for review, let us know of changes.  Discussion of moving the meeting in January to align with PDO.

The Iowa ESA Administrators are interested in a collaborative effort regarding a leadership conference with Nebraska and Iowa.  The next meetings will be held on January 11, 2018 at 11:00 AM at the Greenhills Area ESA Agency.  

Begin to review discussion for the MSA for 2018-2019.  

Committee that need to meet prior (FAB, Legislative, and those that have contracts that need to be approved) and have a short ESUCC meeting the morning of first day.  It is importnat for everyone to be in person for redesign process.   

For March meeting, email Deb by February 15, 2018 if you want to be a host site.  

Board Presidnet and Executive Director will begin discussing his evaluation.  

Meeting adjourned at 11:59 PM.