Expand Your Network with AESA
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Affinity Group News: Communications
What:
Teleconference Meeting
When:
September 20, 2018 2 -3 pm CST
Topic:
Website Engagement Strategies
Contact for more information:
Amy Grover,
Director of Planning, Southeast Service Cooperative, Minnesota
About the Communications/PR Affinity Group
This is a professional learning community and support group for those individuals at ESAs around the country with a job function, interest, or expertise related to marketing, branding, communications, social media, design, public relations, and the like!
This is a place for AESA members to post questions, suggestions, ideas, innovations, resources, links, or documents that everyone will have access to. We work together to address common issues and to share what we are doing to get the word out to members about programs and services. There is so much we can learn from one another about messaging, design elements, types of materials, best practices, social media, etc. So please join us to learn together about what is working and what may not. We would love to have you join us!
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Free Federal Advocacy Webinar
Critical Information as We Head Toward the Midterm Elections!
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Free Webinar:
Federal Policy Update
Tuesday, August 28
3-4 pm (EST) via Zoom.
Free
Webinar
sponsored by AESA
with
Noelle Ellerson Ng,
AESA Legislative Liaison
As we close in on the mid-term elections and the end of this Congress, there are still a lot of moving pieces related to federal education policy and what it all means for educational service agencies and the public schools you serve.
AESA Legislative Liaison Noelle Ellerson Ng will highlight and outline not only the importance of education administrator advocacy, but also the latest goings on in Congress and the White House, for everything from Perkins Career & Technical Education and E-Rate to federal appropriations and the Higher Education Act, and more.
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Join Us September 26-28 for AESA's
2018 Federal Advocacy Conference
Please HURRY: Hotel deadline is September 4!
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Why attend?
This conference provides up-to-the-minute federal policy updates that affect our nation's education and educational service agencies (ESAs). There is time in the schedule for attendees to head over to Capitol Hill to meet with their legislators too. The conference hotel is close to the Capitol, making it easier to attend the meetings and the conference. And, the pre-conference helps participants sharpen their advocacy skills!
Program Highlights:
Pre-Conference, Wednesday, 1- 4 p.m.
Get Ready for Advocacy
Veteran or novice, everyone is sure to take away an advocacy tip or two. You can immediately apply what you learn to your trips to Capitol Hill later in the week!
New! Legislative Breakfast,
Thursday, 7:30 a.m.
Start the day at a legislative breakfast where invited members of Congress will address attendees.
Information Sessions,
Thursday & Friday
Providing the latest updates on federal policy issues including:
- Higher Education Act and Teacher Shortages
- E-Rate, School Connectivity, and Schools
- Fiscal Policy in ESSA: Be on the Lookout
- 2018 Elections and What They May Mean for Education
Please note: Attendees are asked to pre-schedule their own meetings with legislators.
Deadline to register and to secure a hotel room is September 4, 2018.
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Just for Members:
Legislative Update, August 2018
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Topics in this update include:
- Perkins Career and Technical Education Act
- Annual Appropriations
- Educational Broadband Services
- IRS Regulations
- USED Guidance on McKinney Vento
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Suzanne Riley Honored for her Service
The Minnesota Service Cooperatives (MSC) recently honored Suzanne Riley with the Barbara M. Hexum Award. For 39 years, Suzanne worked for Southeast Service Cooperative in Rochester, MN and for many of those years she collaborated with the other service cooperative directors on the MSC Executive Council. She leveraged the regional delivery system in all aspects of Southeast Service Cooperative operations from strategic visioning and program development to continuous improvements for every program and service. Collaboration and cooperation were philosophical imprints that she brought to every project and every opportunity. A strong team player, she believes that cooperatives are stronger together and worked on solutions for the greater good in Minnesota.
Suzanne’s humble leadership radiated through to each team member and created a positive, strengths-based culture that celebrated everyone’s contributions. Suzanne felt that her primary responsibility was to help everyone ELSE grow and succeed . . . and that is the legacy she leaves.
Suzanne’s work, commitment and support of service cooperatives in Minnesota has been exemplary. Suzanne is only the fourth recipient of this award.
Suzanne retired in 2018 and enjoys traveling with her husband, painting and writing. She continues to actively serve as a trustee on the AESA Foundation Board.
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Nominations Open for Executive Council
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Nominations for AESA's Executive Council are now open through September 21, 2018.
All nomination materials can be found on the
AESA Website Executive Council Page
. We urge you to consider running for a council position. Nomination form, biographical statement, signed pledge letter, and a digital picture are due via email to John Bass at
jbass@aesa.us
no later than
September 21, 2018
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AESA Business Partner NEWS
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Corwin and AESA Renew
Our Business Partnership
We are pleased to announce the Corwin and AESA have renewed our business partnership. The business partnership provides AESA members with greater access to Corwin authors, consultants, and products to support educators in educational service agencies (ESAs) across the country.
This announcement came shortly after AESA’s Summer Leadership Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Corwin was featured as a business partner.
Corwin and AESA have partnered together for over eight years which has led to substantial growth and professional learning support in various service agencies across the country. These include successful partnerships with ESAs, such as Southwest Arkansas Education Cooperative, Region 13 Education Service Center in Texas, and Grant Wood Area Education Agency in Iowa.
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