May 2, 2017 at 10:00 AM - Special Population Committee Meeting

Discussion: 

Call to order at 10:00 AM.

Staff:  David M Ludwig, Deb Hericks

Discussion:  Executive Director and ESU 3 Administrator discussed the behavioral health survey report and the school mental health summit.  Invitations were sent out for the summit last Friday.  Please RVSP so they can beginning planning at each site.  

Discussion:  Executive Director is in communication with Jon Haben, NCRSA and Alan Good with Global Therapy.  Executive Director will contact to let them know we are not interested at this time.  

Discussion:  No new information at this time.  

Discussion:  Technology Director reviewed the Innovation Grant and how AAP will be a part of that process.  They are discussing a learning record store, this process will make data more real time.    

Discussion:  Executive Director discussed the SRS will go through a strategic planning process this summer.  

Discussion: 

SRS Team met with Jill Aurand and Ginny Carter from NDE to discuss ADVISER Interoperability. They talked about technical details for connecting AAP to ADVISER.  NDE still needs to decide if AAP will send student data back to the resident school district or send directly to ADVISER.  SRS will need this answer before they can continue.  Michele Borg will talk to her contacts at NDE to try to expedite this decision and push for AAP talking directly to ADVISER.  Wade Fruhling and Michele Borg will provide a training to all Interim-Program Schools on June 5^th.  

Discussion: 

They continue to work on Special Education unit.  They are adding new lesson about school accountability using:  Nebraska’s AQUEST model, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title 1, School Improvement Plans.  For each topic (above) will be a lesson that asks: What is it?;  Why is it important?;  How does it affect paraeducators?;  How does it work?  Nebraska Paraeducator Conference planning.  Registration opens on June 1^st.  They will be sending info to Project PARA users, past attendees, and school administrators soon.

Discussion: 

Adviser Interoperability has been the primary focus for the SRS Team. They took the overall plan and turned it into detailed Statement of Work for the MindShine and DoubleLine Partner developers.  They set up the ADVISER Sandbox so that we can test the code and ensure everything is working as planned.  SRS Staff have been creating organized student data for testing; reviewing NSSRS issues in an effort to anticipate future ADVISER issues.  They had a workday with DoubleLine Partners and NDE Data representatives.  They discussed our plans for ADVISER Interoperability; Technical assistance, Discussions on how data will be displayed on ADVISER dashboard and Lots of Q&A.  DoubleLine Partners has money from Dell foundation to help us with some development.  The SRS team pushed our recent bug fixes live.  They have begun the process of writing up Zend 3 conversion plans to include: Re-evaluate each page to identify areas for improvement; Factor in user suggestions from previous year; Evaluate Jquery libraries and free dashboards for possible use and Researching usability and user experience websites and publications.

Discussion:  Nothing new to report at this time.