April 4, 2018 at 8:00 AM - Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Call to order at 8:00 AM

Staff:  David Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Beth Kabes, Craig Peterson, Priscilla Quintana, Scott Isaacson, Nancy Movall

Guests:  Russ Masco, Kelly Means (for Connie Wickham), 3 Creighton Nursing Students, Dave Patton

Discussion:  Approval of minutes from March 8, 2018 Board Meeting.  

Discussion:  ESU #3 shared the Mass Attacks documents and also the School Mental Health Summit on June 8, 2018.  

Discussion:  Please update AESA information.  Phoebe Bailey from Arkansas is the new President of AESA.  Call for presentation for AESA Conference is April 16, 2018.  

Discussion:  Chris Valentine (Accelerate NE/Avenue of Scholars) and Nancy Movall were present to present on Accelerate Nebraska.  Work is being done on how EdReady can can be used in to help students prepare on for Career and Technical skills/enrichment exercise.  Eighty percent of jobs in Nebraska do not need a higher education degree.  Our membership with NROC/EdReady can contextualize towards career pathways (nursing, welding, etc.)  There are like 141 pathways that are accessible in EdReady.  Clusters that do not meet the needs of state's performance goals such as hospitality and tourism, law, public safety, security and corrections, etc.  Team is ready and willing to do presentations and/or workshops with ESUs and teachers.  We continue to look for niche programs where we can help students learn.  It was suggested by an Administrators to work with groups at PDO/TLT.  

Discussion:  President shared discussions in committee.  

Discussion:  Discussion was held to just move the March to a rotational meeting and it will continue to be a DL Meeting.  HAve there been discussion to reduce meeting?  Business purposes need to keep meetings.  Redesign process will help further our needs/purpose.  Try to decrease the amount of spending/mileage to meetings.  DL is a statatory allowance oportunity.  When attending via DL could possibliy attend regionally.  

Discussion:  President discussed the PDO calendar to align ESUCC Board Meeting and PDO Meeting (second week).  Possibility of moving April meeting to Lincoln as well.  

Discussion:  Executive Director/Karen Haase discussed and reviewed the changes in language for the MSA for 2018-2019.  These changes help us to align better with Rule 84.  The NWEA has been removed from MSA and will be moved to the MOU with NDE.  The language changes will help to clarify and understand the language.  Need to remove the BrightBytes information.  

Discussion:  Executive Director discussed the partnership with NCSA and NDE for Safety and Security Summit - October 17, 2018. 

Discussion:  There was no public comment.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the Budget Summary with the Board. 

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the Budget Summary with the Board. 

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the Expenses for March with the Board. 

Discussion:  Committee Chair shared that the Brightbytes failed for a lack of a second.  This will not be a statewide contract, you can contact vendor individually.  ADVISER issues have been resolved with the work of Doubline Partners.  The application is ready for the Data Conference.  The committee is still working on reducing the clicks and making process smoother.  The Dashboard Advisory committeee will do a needs assessment on where everyone is at on their process.  LMS Committee has been working with Canvas as an Open Source option, ESU 19/OPS will be working to begin this process.  NITC is creating a task force for Rural Broad Band Service.  Windstream was disqualified from RFP Process for NITC, there is a potential of 300% increase of service.  There will be a legal challenge to the RFP process.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the inventory to be disposed.  

Discussion:  Coop paper buy was up from last year.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the the Astro Turf name change.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the Securly Inc contract.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the Better Lesson contract.  

Discussion:  Executive Director shared the PDO meeting agenda for May 9-10.  The outcomes will be to facilitate the direction of the work groups, continue to invest in data driven decision, align the current work and statewide collaboration, put the PD back into PDO.  Survey needs to go out right away after event and the PD Committee will do some analysis of that survey.  Administrators talk to your staff about the their feelings/outcomes from the meeting and share with PD Committee.  The PD committee needs to be more informed of the work of PDO.  Continue to make our decision data driven.  LB 651 - Linehan summer school for reading.  Required hours have been removed.  This bill has been amended with LB 1081 technical clean up bill.  Would we help to facilitate/coordinate summer school across the state.  Look at the work Iowa AEAs did with Iowa with summer school.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the discussion in committee.  SRS is working hard to get moved over to Zend 3 by the end of June.  They are working to get some more schools involved in the AAP (alternative schools).  Continue to discuss if there should be a Para Conference on the East end of the state.  LB 998 - Mental Health bill should be on the floor sometime this week.  Assistive Technology RFP will not be out until May.  

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed the discussion in committee regarding legislative bills.  In education we had to play a lot of defense this year with the legislative session.  There will be about 15 interim studies done, the committee will meet to discuss our interest in those studies.  Discussion of Senator Erdmans bill on property tax relief could possibly be on the ballot, discussion regarding on our opposition of the bill.  Associations are organization group to work on shedding light on the affect this will have on schools.  

Discussion:  Recess to NDE/ESUCC collaboration meeting at 10:09AM.

Resume meeting at 2:12PM

Discussion:  Meeting adjourned at 2:12PM