February 10, 2016 at 2:00 PM - Special Population Committee Meeting

Discussion:  Call to order at 2:00 PM. Staff: David Ludwig, Wade Fruhling, Deb Hericks

Discussion:  Executive Director discussed the ILCD Collaborative Grant. Steve Milliken sent an email out to everyone.

Discussion:  There will be a conference call on February 22, 2016 at 9:00 via Zoom to continue discussions on behavioral health. The Whole Child Project (NASB) is working to expand project.

Discussion:  Executive Director discussed the Circle of Friends Project (Anti-Bullying Program for Special Needs Students.) There has been a request that this project come under the ESUCC as a fiscal agent. Executive Director to discuss with the ESPD Directors.

Discussion:  Committee will suggest the Admin Fee to remain at $5000.

Discussion:  Committee will suggest to increase Tier Structure by 5%. Committee to bring forth as a motion at the March meeting.

Discussion:  Discussions of working with UNO Computer Programming students to help develop some new features for AAP as part of their graduation requirements. Projects may include a reporting system and connection to NDE’s Operational Data Store

Discussion:  Discussion regarding: Content and Instructor pages: Upgrading the forms used to submit work to instructors. Administrative and State Admin pages: Improving the screen that administrators use to view user responses. Supervising Paraeducator’s program: Adding more student management options and improve the efficiency of the system.

Discussion:  SRS started working with Bellevue Public Schools to develop data import/export system. SRS Staff met with NDE data support team to address several NSSRS reporting issues. They were aware of most of these issues, and already had Mike Danahy working on solutions. Staff are working on an NSSRS FAQ page to help give our users tips on how to complete this report quickly with greater accuracy. Mike Danahy has identified and fixed a couple serious security risks. New servers are being prepared to house our SRS database. This will provide a significant speed boost, and should mitigate the slowdown we see each May. SRS Staff are creating a new NSSRS report tutorial. They have started creating testing protocol for each SRS page. This will help us improve the quality and consistency of our system testing

Discussion:  SRS Staff continue to maintain the ILCD Staff Survey site. Their office emails the data (along with a summary) to school districts upon request.