September 6, 2018 at 8:30 AM - Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Call to order at 8:30 AM.  

Staff:  David Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana, Craig Peterson,

Guests: KSB Legal Team, Dave Patton, LC, Intiva Team, 

Discussion:  Intiva Educations was present to share their business partnership oppotunity.  Intiva is an integrated administrative and career platform built for educators and the administrators who manage them. Here are the distinct areas or modules that work together in a seamless flow.  They shared data on the time spent as a principal, highest performing schools have principals who spend more time on day-to-day instruction.  Intive leverages it proprietary technology to give time back to administrators.  Their platform has a robust careers and jobs matching system.  They can also access a continuing education platform for certifications, transcripts, etc.  They have a FERPA compliant messaging system.  Intiva is built on distributed ledger technology (DLT), the trust layer of the internet.  DLT Allows administrators to achieve secure, instant reputation verification with ReadyEdu.  ReadyEdu manages credentials:  identification, education, licensing, background checks.  ReadyEdu speeds up the process of sourcing and verifying educators from weeks to minutes.  The Intiva platform improves the effficency of workflows at no-cost, addressing unequal access to back office systems.  Cloud based system, can be stand alone or run along legacy systems.  Intiv dets the new standard for education identity, veriification, and reputation.  

Discussion:  The Talking Points will be resumed in the near future.  Coordinate a group at NDE to come together to work through and continue to facilitate this process.  Will work to have someone from NDE on each of the Bold Steps process.  The enrollment day has been moved to October 1, 2018, this will align the state and federal dates.  

Discussion:  Lane Carr was present to discuss CCSI and the Facilitator Training process.  This training will be provided by KLK (Kathy Kennedy).  A small group met with KLK to discuss the process.  NDE is focused on investing in our people, goal to work KLK out of a job.  This will include the faciliator training. Co-hort one (5-7 ESU people) will begin training this year and next year will bring on a second group including the first cohort and additional people to be trained.  This process will be a transfer of knowledge to our ESU staff so that we can continue to support the needs improvement schools.  Having the training for our poeple will increase the level that we can support more schools throughout the process. This will include two training in the fall and two training in the spring along with four days of shadowing opportunities through out the school year.  Focus on Champions of Equity, equity will focus on schools and students that need support.  NDE is making the commitment to support all expenses for this training.  New classification of schools will come out in December.  Ten percent will be classified as needs improvement.  This will be a great tool for ESUs to use with their needs improvement schools.  This system is set up as there will always be needs improvement schools (10% high, and 10% needs improvement.)  Cocerns that some schools will always be in the bottom 10%.  NDE will have to decide how/when a school can move off needs imrpovemet status by their areas of growth improved.  Language can create a barrier for the initial stages and where they stand, our people can help create the common language.  NDE wants to work closely with ESUs to co-call the schools together to begin to dig into data together.    

Discussion:  Cory Epler, was present to give an update on the Instructional Materials work group.  Many ESU staff have been involved in the work group.  Website:  (nematerials.matter.org)  He reviewed the website for Nebraska Instructional Materials Collaborative.  The site will have curriculum standardsa nd also resource materials to go along with curriculum (ELA, Math, Science, etc).  This are also linked to EdReports to help create bridge documents to be able to align to Nebraska standards from the Common core Standards.  The intent is to not manadate selection, but want to align quality materials.  They will also provide professional development to help supplement resources.  The name Nebraska Instructional Materials Collaborative is a joint effort with NDE, ESUs and continue to work ESUCC as a partner.  NCTM has work through issues with EdReports and will be in support of reports.  

Discussion:  Call to Action Meeting in September 26-28 in Washington to DC.  Executive Director working on setting meetings with our Senators.  Jeff West's last year on the Board is this year, need to begin to discuss a replacement in the future.  

Discussion:  Recess meeting at 9:24 AM for 9:30 AM Budget Hearing

Reconvene regular board meeting at 9:51 AM.  

Discussion:  Executive Director shared/thanked the Focus Groups for their work and would like to have each group report out at each meeting. 

Standards Committee Chair shared that his group will meet tomorrow.  Chair has drafted a document for the group to begin discussing.  Three areas:  Performance Standards; Outreach and Collaboration Standards; Program Management Standards.  Redefine our purpose to promote the region ESUs work that we support.  Special needs students need to be added as we support several areas of special education.  

Joint Deicsion Making Parameters shared that they have had three meetings and also have had an excutive committee with NDE staff.  They are working on how we make a structure that will include joint decision making.  Meeting this morning centered around the Rule 84 meetings and how we can make that more efficient/relevant.  NDE participantion will be key for our work.  Someone from the department at the policy making level to be on the commmittees.  

SIMPL Chair shared that the service inventory group has met and decided to meet with the customize services work group set in PDO so that not to duplicate work.  NDE has an interest of putting a few of their services into the SIMPL system.  ESUCC Servi ces could possible put their services into system (MSA).  They will set next meeting after PDO meetings next week. 

Value Add Chair shared that they will meet the last Wednesday of the month.  Their goal was to look at what other states do.  State Statute vs want services.  They had the group from Texas share their model.  They discussed what would a represetative group to begin with, what services do they want to look at cost savings for, special education, statatoral needs (Distance Education, Media, LMS, etc)  They are putting together a cost analysis together.  Committee si making create strides of where they want to move forward.  Objective/crediability is a big factor in the work they need to do.  They will add both quantitiative and qualititative information from schools.  Timeline of work could possibly be back in time for legislative season.  

Value Propistion Chair shared that they discussed what do we have if the ESUCC is not here, they look at the MSAs and what our value is for our schools.   

 

Discussion:  Russs Masco shared he is working to get a representative from NDe for each group.

Discussion:  A small group met at NDE to discuss EdReady, included NDE, ESUCC, NROC to get us all on the same page to continue to scale up edReady process.  

Discussion:  Karen Hasse, KSB Legal shared/reviewed updates of policies needed for ESUCC.  

Discussion:  Approval of KSB Law as attorney for 2018-2019

Discussion:  Approve ESU

Discussion:  There is no public comment.

Discussion:  Committee shared the budget reports with the Board.

Discussion:  Committee shared the expense reports with the Board.

Discussion:  Approve budget for 2018-2019

Discussion:  Approve the esm payment for September 2018.

Discussion:  Approve other payments for September 2018.

Discussion:  Committee Chair the discussions from Committee.  ADVISER work is moving forward.  They will be making smaller changes more frequestly.  BlendEd Co-hort 2 has begun.  Cyber Security Training/Conference the Septemver 27-28, 2018, share the info with network staff.  

Discussion:  OER/Copyright policy to be approved.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair the discussions from Committee. Review reports provided by Coop staff with your schools.  Executive Director met with Coop staff in May to discuss strategies.  They will meet with legal to discuss what we legally can do with our program.  

Discussion:  Approve Coop contract

Discussion:  Approve Coop contract

Discussion:  Approve Coop contract

Discussion:  Approve Coop contract

Discussion:  Approve Coop Annual Buy Bids and Conditions.  

Discussion:  Approve Coop interlocal contract with Kajeet.

Discussion:  Committee Chair shared discussions in committee. Ryan Mortensonfrom Frontline was present in committee to give a demonstration.  Lane Carr was present to discuss the CCSI and the facilitator training.  PDO is next week, we appreciate the administrators being present.  ESU/NCSA shared the special project work to be done with ESU 5.  

Discussion:  Committee shared dicsussion in committee.  Nathan busch (NESOC) and Steve Milliken (NDE) were present to give updates.  Possibility to move Project Para under the ESUCC in 2019-2020.  Nebrasaka Behavioral Health Conference in Kearney in June.  the National Conference will be in LasVegas in October.  Behavioral Health discussion with Senator Walz, we will invite her out to ESUs that have a program in progress.  This will help to identify the gaps we need in Mental Health.  

Discussion:  Committee shared dicsussion in committee.  Bromm was present to discuss the legislator currently.  It is currently quiet around the Capitol.  Bromms have met with Senators running for election.  K-3 Reading program will continue to discuss our support.  NCSA Coalition meeting has created a talking point document to share with senators, staff, schools, etc.  Legislative Day at the capitol, to be moved off Friday.  Will look into further dates and availability with room at Capitol.  

Discussion:  Appreciate the support of the ESU Administrators.  We send our sympathies to Commission Blomstedt on the death of his mother.  

Discussion:  Adjourn meeting at meeting at 12:25 PM.