October 4, 2016 at 11:00 AM - Professional Development Committee Meeting
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| Attendance Taken on 10/4/2016 at 11:04 AM | |
| Ted DeTurk | Present |
| Tedesco ESU 11 | Present |
| Allen ESU 19 | Present |
| Dr Kraig Lofquist | Present |
| Dr. Brenda McNiff | Present |
| Dr Larianne Polk | Present |
| Jeff West (NE) | Present |
| Present: 7, Absent: 0 | |
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1. Call to Order
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Discussion:
Call to order at 11:03 AM. Staff: David Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Beth Kabes |
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2. Roll Call
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3. Agenda Item
Speaker(s):
Chair of Committee
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3.1. January PDO - Jim Knight Training
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair - Lofquist
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Discussion:
January PDO with Jim Knight will be on January 18-19, 2017. The will be a great opportunity for all ESU - Administrators/Staff.
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3.2. Virtual Support Team (VST) Update
Speaker(s):
Executive Director Ludwig/Scott Isaacson
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Discussion:
Virtual Support continues to meet and to move forward with having ESU help for the schools going through the process. Power School support, if schools utilize Power school there will be no additional costs for support transition.
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3.3. BlendEd Pilot Update
Speaker(s):
Blended/Distance Learning director Kabes
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Discussion:
BlendEd/DEC Director gave an update on the BlendEd pilot. She has been visiting some these pilot schools. She also invites the ESU counterpart on these visits to keep them in loop on progress. She plans to visit the schools twice, once first semester and once second semester. She has dialogue with students as well as teachers involved in pilot. She gave some examples of the work happening out in the schools.
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3.4. EAP Advisory
Speaker(s):
Executive Director Ludwig
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Discussion:
Executive Director discussed the needs for ESU and districts moving forward together in process of moving toward dashboard.
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3.5. NDE/ESUCC/PDO Planning
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair - Lofquist
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Discussion:
Executive Director discussed the need to keep communications open with NDE: Collaboration meetings (twice a year), PD Planning Committee, NDE Strategic Planning, Higher Ed more actively involved. Continue to make sure communications is purposeful and meaningful. Discussion to have a meeting following the collaboration meetings to meet with higher ed to discuss progress within K-12. Continue to invite higher ed to PD opportunities. Some ESUs invite the colleges to their meetings to their advisory meetings. Continue to discuss how to invite the appropriate stakeholders to be involved.
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3.6. MSP Math Grant
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair - Lofquist
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Discussion:
Executive Assist has been working with Grant Manager to help provide some assistance to UNL as they try to recruit Teacher Leaders and participants for next year. ESUCC plans to continue to keep the Math Champions updated for future use statewide.
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3.6.1. NMPDS
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair - Lofquist
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Discussion:
Executive director working to finalize the last year of NMPDS. We will be submitting final reports sometime this month. RMC will get their final report to us soon as well.
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4. Next Meeting Agenda Items
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5. Executive Session
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6. Adjournment
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Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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