October 3, 2017 at 2:00 PM - Professional Development Committee Meeting

Meeting called to order at 2:00 PM.

Staff:  David M Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana, and Beth Kabes.

Rob Residori with Brightbytes was present to discuss future pricing for ESUCC.  Brightbytes and Future EdReady would like to partner with us.  Brightbytes is going to pay for Susan Leddick to help walk us through the ESUCC/ESU Redesign process.  They would  also like to get Nebraska on statewide contract for student pricing.  

Executive Director discussed the Innovation Grant and progress.  Each area has cerated talking points that can be shared out across the state.  

BlendEd Director/Distance Education Director shared that Co-hort 1 will be finishing this year.  Co-hort 2 will begin in March.  ESUs can begin to contact schools for interest in second co-hort.    

Committee is discussing having regional meetings to share information and training for NROC/EdReady.  Sustainability will come from support and usage of service.  

Executive Director shared that the planning committee is reviewing data collected at the September meeting.  The Planning Committee broke into smaller groups to analyze the data and identify the common themes.  Next steps will be emailing each ESUS on gaps they have in meeting the needs of their schools.  They will use both sets of data to make decisions on our future.  Clarification of the mission/purpose needs to happen.  Brad Geise will not be happening this January until we figure out the needs.  Need to make PDO more meaningful.  The ESUCC/NDE collaboration meeting tomorrow should come up with three or four priority areas to help move process forward.  Three themes - continue collaboration, identify purpose, and use data.  Discussion regarding the purpose and mission, members need to trust the planning committee to do the work we entrust them to do.  The vision was written three years ago.  January meeting should be a reflection of the work done in September.  

CCSI Group is beginning to move forward.  The foundation of a systemic CIP needs to be the tenets of AQuESTT.  Schools don't want multiple plans, they want one plan to work from.  NDE has identified their people to be on this committee.  ESUCC needs to identify the people they would like on this committee.  The target audience will be the needs improvement schools.  October 30, to begin planning process.  ESUCC to have names to NDE by October 13.