That's a Wrap: 2018 Educator Call to Action Conference a Great Success!
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Up to the minute information
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Noelle Ellerson Ng, AESA Legislative Liaison, packed the Educators Call to Action Conference last week full of news, informative speakers, and updates.
Thank you to our members who attended, and to the speakers who presented up-to-the-minute information that helped our members prepare for their visits to Capitol Hill.
Copies of the legislative talking points will be on the AESA website soon.
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An important part of the Educators Call to Action conference is to hear from experts on the topics important to Educational Service Agencies. This year's conference topics included legislation regarding teacher shortages; changes at the FCC and the "homework gap"; student privacy issues; and much more.
Additionally, a panel of state leaders discussed the importance of state and local advocacy too.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski Receives AESA Congressional Service Award
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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was awarded the 2018 AESA Congressional Service Award. Senator Murkowski was recognized for her leadership in supporting education. Due to the Senate hearings taking place while we were in D.C. a member of her staff, Karen McCarthy, accepted the award on her behalf.
Shown in the photo are Sheryl Weinberg, Executive Director, SERRC, Alaska's Educational Resources Center; Karen McCarthy, Senator Murkowski's Senior Education Advisor; and Jeff Smith, an AESA Executive in Residence.
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The Learning Continues at the
Annual Conference:
The only national event especially for ESAs
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Did you know?
AESA offers
two
all-day
pre-conferences
on Wednesday, November 28
Guiding Teams to Excellence with Equity
Presented by John Krownapple,
Author of
Guiding Teams to Excellence with Equity: Culturally Proficient Facilitation
Sponsored by Corwin
- Experience a professional learning environment that facilitates awareness, commitment, and action that are supportive of equity in education.
- Develop an understanding of what is necessary to lead transformative professional learning that results in a profound change in equity and inclusion.
- Explore an effective change model for initiating and sustaining successful equity-focused professional learning and development.
- Identify knowledge, skills, and dispositions of culturally proficient facilitators of transformative professional learning systems.
Mr. Krownapple is a Coordinator for the Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, of the Howard County Public School System, MD.
Meeting the Adaptive Challenges of Redesigning Your Educational System
Presented by ESSDACK, Hutchinson, Kansas
Presenters: Mike Cook, Executive Director; Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz, Director of Student Services; Tamara Konrade, Director of INspired Leadership; and Jodi Grover, CTE Consultant
Learn from an ESA that has been there!
- Understand the change from test-driven to student-success driven organizations.
- Develop a deep awareness of the impact of culture and what to do about it.
- Learn strategies to move from a staff-centric model to a child, family, and community-centric model.
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Come for the learning.
Engage in the networking.
Connect with thought leaders.
Leave inspired.
AESA's
Annual Conference
.
It's
going
to be
great
!
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Here are a few of the thoughts we caught on Twitter last week!
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About AESA's Educator Call to Action Conference held last week in DC:
PSESD Board, parents and staff are descending on the U.S. Capitol today to remind Congress to focus on children & families in the midst of partisan politics.
@AESAnetwork
AESA @AESAnetwork
Kicking our last day of
#aesa_esa18
off by debriefing hill visits with
@Noellerson
! Our members hit up a lot of congressional offices about the importance of ESAs and education! Great job!
phoebe bailey @phoebelbailey
AESA recognizes Senator Murkowski for her support of education.
#AESA2018
About the work ESAs are doing around the country:
Butler County ESC @ButlerCountyESC
Today Butler County ESC was named 1 of 10
@iste
Certification Authorized Providers nationwide! Soon we will begin offering learning workshops to deliver ISTE Certification for Educators! Learn all about it here:
bit.ly/bcesc-iste
#ISTECert
#bcpartners
@InfiniteCampus
Is transforming K12 school districts. Dave Noles: The biggest bang for our buck is partnering with
@AESAnetwork
! It is a great partnership to support transformational work!
When there’s tension, when there’s pushback, you’re changing things. Keep communication channels open and flowing. Go to them many times in many ways.
#ksedchat
@ESSDACK
@KSDEredesign
@ksdehq
A resource shared by one of the Educators Call to Action Conference speakers:
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Project Tomorrow: Speak Up Survey Results
The role of technology as an education equalizer
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The Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning
is a national initiative undertaken by the non-profit group Project Tomorrow.
Their research represents the largest collection of authentic, unfiltered stakeholder input on education, technology, schools of the future, science and math instruction, professional development and career exploration. They are releasing their data in a series of briefs.
In this brief,
The Educational Equity Imperative: Leveraging Technology to Empower Learning for All,
they examine the role of technology use in school as an enabler of equitable learning environments.
AESA's Executive Director Joan Wade is quoted:
“One of the biggest strengths of the Speak Up survey is not only its ability to capture the perspective from multiple roles (parent, teacher, student, administrator) but to have done so over multiple years,” said Joan Wade, Executive Director, Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA).
“The long-view of the Speak Up data indicates that while certain issues will come and go as it relates to education technology, connectivity, and learning, the overarching recurring theme is nearly universal support for ensuring all students and schools have equitable access to affordable broadband."
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Business Partner News from Forecast 5
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Forecast5 Analytics, the leading provider of decision support tools for local government administrators, announced a growth equity partnership with Riverwood Capital.
Forecast5 will use the investment to continue providing innovative solutions and a high level of service to its current clients and to meet the growing demand for its state-of-the-art analytics technology in more school districts, municipalities and higher education institutions across the country.
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AESA is your organization.
We welcome you to get involved.
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New Affinity Group Forming:
Leadership is an
Activity
, not a
Position
.
This
NEW
leadership affinity group will explore the actions and activities of leadership from the personal, team, and organizational growth perspectives. As a group, we will determine the growth areas as we progress through the meetings.
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