April 6, 2022 at 1:45 PM - Educational Resources Committee Meeting
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1. Call to Order
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Call to order at 1:45 PM
Staff: Kraig Lofquist, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana
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2. Roll Call
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3. Agenda Item
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3.1. School Safety Priorities
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Jolene Palmer
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Jolene Palmer was present to share some updates on school safety. Suggesting schools to have a suicide policy and procedure around prevention. Once policy and procedures in place, SBQR surveys for identifying the risk of students to suicide. They will be training people across the state - ESUs, Schools, Behavioral Health Regions. LB322 - provides Safe2Help Nebraska anonymous report line through Boystown. Offering to schools for $0. Hoping to have enough data on safe practices in 2024 to share with legislators. Bullying is the #1 report. They can use the website, calls, or texts.
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3.2. Special Populations
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3.2.1. NDE Special Education Update
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Amy Rhone
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No report.
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3.2.2. ESPD Report
Speaker(s):
Ruth Miller
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Ruth Miller was present to give updates from ESPD. They are busy with maintenance of efforts. Special Education is going through a review process for policy and procedures and needs to be completed by March 2023.
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3.2.3. Mental Health and Wellness
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3.2.3.1. NDE Mental Health Grant
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Committee Chair
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Discussed requirements for the mental health grant changes. If anyone has specific questions please send to Deb Hericks. Business Manager Meeting Recording
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3.2.4. ESSER - Preschool Program
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Committee Chair
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3.2.5. SRS Staff Report
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Overall Operations
We feel the SRS software is running well and users are having a good experience. Rita McKinney is our helpdesk specialist and she keeps the unanswered help requests at effectively zero. The team continues to work between user reports and requests and the advice of advisory team members to plan fixes and enhancements that keep improving the system. 504 Plan Support Software development work continues on the changes recommended by the advisory team members who tested the software and attended a focus group on the new features. We are aiming to complete work on the system and have it available for early adopters during the summer of 2022, with continued review and testing before then. Updates and Revisions We have drafted a contract for consulting services to update the SRS database and software code. An optimized database will provide faster performance and support additional data reporting and tracking capabilities. A new software framework and streamlined code will speed up our ability to develop future enhancements, perform maintenance and improve usability of the software on a wider variety of devices (computers, tablets, phones and more) and screen dimensions and resolutions. This work is extensive and will need to take place in parallel with maintaining the existing software. Contracted database and software development services will be needed to accomplish this work, with an initial estimated completion in summer, 2023.
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3.3. PDO (Professional Development Organization)
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3.3.1. High Quality Instructional Materials Support (HQ-IM)
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Cory Epler was present to give updates for HQIM. Kelly Georgius gave an update on the Design Team. There are some updates in talking points about Zearn Math. ESUs that participated in the design team work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LTycYtUcJ9BnAMP6d9rmlXGKSk5kf2z5xn6ayHjZSUA/edit.
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3.3.2. PDO Workgroups Rule 84 Updates
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Ted Deturk was present to give the updates from the PDO Customize Service Work Group.
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3.3.3. SDA Report
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SDA Affiliate Chair
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Kellen Conroy and Jen Madison were present to share some updates from SDA. SDA will be training with Kendal Zoller on April 12-13, 2022.
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3.3.4. TLT Special Project and Social Studies Cadre
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Hicks and McKiver
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Continued conversations with Lori Broady, Mark Brady, Deb Paulman, Craig Hicks, Dawn Ferreyra, Katrina Gotschall, and Nick Ziegler regarding the TLT/SS SDA cadre’s work with HQIM for SS in grades 4-8. o Statewide Social Studies Inquiry Supports o Special Project Proposal (Revised) o John Hopkins Social Studies Summary Analysis o We have accepted 29 teachers to the project and know which locations each will be attending. ? Two locations instead of three, Lincoln and Wayne. o Proposal accepted for the statewide Social Studies conference o Proposal submitted to the Admin Days conference o Created and finalized this promotional one-pager for the June 6-7 online Inquiry Model training
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3.3.5. PDO Meetings
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3.3.5.1. Administrator Video - PDO Celebration Dinner. Video's are due by April 27th.
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Administrators video due by April 27, 2022.
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3.3.5.2. Bowling Outing
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May 3 at the Big Apple in Kearney from 6-8 PM.
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3.3.6. NDE Updates
Speaker(s):
Russ Masco
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Shirley Vargas gave updates from NDE on CSI, ATSI and TSI.
NE Addendum: https://cdn.education.ne.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Nebraska_ESSA-Addendum_3.24.22.pdf. NDE has put out a School Improvement RFP: https://cdn.education.ne.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/School-Improvement-Services-Request-for-Proposal_NDERFP220320.pdf. PPT: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RMRdlsORsEH4mh5ENIm_U7fIUAbVjU4yQM_2rgAsQA/edit?usp=sharing |
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3.3.7. Monthly Talking Points
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Executive Director
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4. Next Meeting Agenda Items
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5. Adjournment
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Meeting adjourned at 2:53 PM.
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