December 13, 2019 at 10:00 AM - Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Call to order at 10:00 AM

Staff:  Kraig Lofquist, Deb Hericks

Guest:  ESU Perkins Coordinators 

Discussion:  Katie Graham, NDE was present to share updates on Perkins V.  The full draft is NDE is online and open for public comment.  Also posted is the Perkins Accountability Targets.  Required by law to include responses.  There will be an Executive Summary, hope to be out early next week.  Using Perkins founds down to the 5th grade.  Permissable but not required.  Performance Targets to select three targets:  Workbase learning participationis the target the State Board picked.  focus on staewide participation.  Currently low participation.  Provisions/assurances:  size, scope and quality of programs in place to meet the needs of all students.  Defintition of concentrator has changed to accountability.  There are 16 career clusters.  Students needs to take two courses to be a concentrator.  Split of funds between - 85% flows straight through to participants.  Split was 55% to secondary 45% to post secondary - new 60% secondary to 40% post secondary.  There was a required contribution - the state board has change to none/allowable.  PFI will continue to be an allowable partnership.  Workbase learning - Science has been added to the learning.  Not sure how PFI will change their structure or if they will stay as a granting body.  Perlins may only be utilized on addressing outcomes identified through needs assessment.  Special Populations will be addressed through the needs assessment.  State Plan clarification on consortiums - once you signed on this year you are signed on for four years.  Not required but suggested.  Consortia - they wrote in flexibility for consortia participations.  They can stand alone - waiver.  If a group of schools wanted to join their own consortia - NDE will give them the option.  Needs Assessment ReVision - comprehensive local needs assessment - expanding the process to meet the new need requirements of the law.  Based on feedback of pilots - how can we add additional supports without adding more burden.  Every elgibillie recipent has to meaningfully participate into the process.  ESUs cannot do it for them.  Local needs assessment (district responsibility for aligning - self assess) and regional assessment (every district has to participate, including ESUs and Community Colleges)  Hired a conveiner - where districts need to be and what to do.  Make local assessments available.  They convenier will summarize regional meetings and send back to local.  The documentation will be readily availble - assements, summaries, etc.  The ESUs role - participante in the regional meetings, be on hand for local assessments.  NDE staff/conveniers will be readily available to help out through the process.  NDE will not be collecting the local needs assessment - they will only include the summaries.  Will there be training for the corrdinators so that they can be sure we are supporting them appropriately?  There is a guide book that is step by step and a resource manual which will be available next week.  The process will need to be done quickly.  Would it help to bring in ESU schools in for a training/workshop to get them get them all on the same page?  NDE put the burden on the schools to take burden off the ESUS/non-authoritative.  Locals needs to own their assessments.  Support at the level you are able to and let NDE know how they can help.  Who needs to be at the table for local needs assessment?  The stakeholders are spelled out in the guidebook and manual.  Regional Meetings - nine economic development regions.  Hosting only one per region.  Do the best they can, use zoom, etc.  TImeline for opening of grant - Launching Revison this month - Jan/Feb work on local assessments - Feb/Mar - regional meeting and open the intent to participate.  Mar/Apr - development of four plna - Apr/May when grant due.  Can't give allocations until they get the allocations from FEDS.  Can they keep ESUs in one region and not across several regions?  Go where it make sense to join.  Conveiners - Jan Christianson, Ken Spellman and their team.  Let ESUs know who their conveiners are so they can begin to have communications.  Explanation of local - local school or local consortium.  Local is school districts and recipient is the consortia.  ESUs serve as the fiscal agent and consortia lead.  Districts can consort together.  Both would operate the same way.  Local Districts - is the local recipient.  Define the language is very important.  ESU 7 - is in three economic regions, do they need to create three plans - make one combined higher level plan/broadly specific.  Mutally benefials to all student needs. Student performance data - how are they doing on all indicators, where do we want to focus our efforts.  Need better reports from NDE to help the local analysis.  Begin prior to the reports being available - reports to be available in Janaury.  NDE will provide assistance on how to analyze data.  What if a district decides to not do needs assessment, what if they want to join later.  writing implementation as creating plan.  They would still need to do the needs assessment requirement- they would need to talk with consortia to see how they can fit into plan.  If they choose not to participate in consortia, the funding will stay with consortia. Based off Perkins accountability indicators - ACT, placement, etc.  Will the data be more real time data?  Data available will be previous years, however, once a conentrator, always a concentrator.  Previously only reported concentrator as seniors but now will be whatever grade level they created.  As soon as they are consider a concentrator, they are reported.  ReVision has fundamentaly changed as well as process.  Don't start over - look at what is done and look at what is required to fill in the holes.  The process will keep evolving.  There is funding set aside to help schools with their process (subs, etc.) - mini grant.  There is required uses for funds (there are 6 elements - can focus across the four year plan), can't be all professional development.  Perkins requires the funds to be used on the outcomes of processes.  Consenus can be reached/allowable.  Do not expect perfection this year, make data informed decisions.  

Discussion:  Adjourn at 11:10 AM.