November 19, 2019 at 1:45 PM - Educational Resources Committee Meeting

Discussion:  Call to order at 1:45 PM.  

Staff:  Kraig Lofquist, Deb Hericks, Priscillla Quintana, Beth Kabes, Scott Isaacson

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the Nebraska Injured Brain Network (NIBN) invitation for their event.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair shared the Friday newsblast from each week.  Good information is given.  Steve Milliken/Amy Rhone were at the Para Educator Conference.  Jean Anderson will send the link to subscribe.  

Discussion:  Jean Anderson shared discussion at last ESPD meeting.  They love their time with KSB law and continue to appreciate.  Fairbanks/Jennifer Irvine was present.  They were glad to hear a consistant message.  ESU Employee will be on ESU Fairbanks list and the ESU will need to figure out what school districts can benefit from MIPS dollars.  They have not figured out hospital providers will be solved.  They will continue to do statictical analysis on how this reported.  SDA is loooking for social emotional learning facilitators.  ESPD recommended they talk to Jane Byers regarding presenters.  Discussion regarding how ESUs are prviding those MIPS dollars.  Some are doing discounted services like speech services.   They are also looking at utilizing the money to create new services like licensed mental health positions, etc.  Discussion on the amount of money to get from MIPS by pulling them back under the ESUs.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair shared the clal for proposal for the Mental Health Confernence.  It will be June 4-5, 2020 in LaVista.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair shared the clal for proposal for the Mental Health Confernence.  It will be June 4-5, 2020 in LaVista.  

Discussion:  Technology Director gave an update on SRS.  They have been devoted to state reporting that was done in November.  This was about 30,000 records submitted through the system.  School are finished submitting data.  There were over 1000 help desk tickets in October, errors with ADVISOR.  210 districts submitted their data through ADVISOR.  The development team continue to improve their practice on how to utilize the software.  Seventy eight software issues have been closed since last report.  There ahve identidied 26 issues to work on currently and that will leave 106 issues left to fix.  They will continue to priortize helpdesk tickets.  Wade Fruhling is no longer with the ESUCC.  Team working closely with everyone to keep them update.  This position will be looking for some uper level support help.  They will be looking to interview hopefully sometime next week.  This person willl be also able to help with the backlog of tickets.  They are hoping to get developer tickets down to minimum and the user tickets to be just needing help.  Continue to work with team to tighten the process moving forward.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair shared the Janaury PDO and draft agenda.  Conitnue to look at the data to see the needs of the group.  Two themes will be in January - communication and mental health. NDE will also have a few sessions to keep us updated on importnat areas of need fro NDE.  Bold Step 1 will be addressing the whole group. Also, look to have OverDrive present as well.  

Discussion:  Educator Effective work groups has brought forward a prososal to have John Hattie to train in September 2020 or January 2021. This training will fit in to work along with NDE.  

Discussion:  Russ Masco was present to give an NDE update.  Lane Carr and Shirley Vargus will be presenting in the morning for CSI/TSI/ATSI.  The November talking points were sent out earlier this week, Russ Musco reviewed the topic of discussion for the month.  Perceptual Surveys will be a joint effort between NDE and ESUCC so that school s can get real time data on the culture of their schools.  The talking points is to be a two-way communnication tool.  Use the feedback from for your suggestions/clarifications.  

Discussion:  Fellowship had their intital session together in Grand Island.  There has been good feedback from this session.  This is an important cosideration for us to share with our schools.  Conversations about the strength of the standards and the curriculum that schools utilize especially those curriculum adoptions that have just happened.  

Discussion:  Meeting adjourn at 2:31 PM.