A few weeks ago, and again yesterday, executive directors received an email asking ESAs to complete a web-based survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) and ICF to learn more about your consortia model.
If you haven’t already, please consider completing the 26-question survey by clicking HERE. It should take you no more than 20 minutes to complete and you will be sent a $25 gift card via email once you submit your responses!
If you have already completed the survey, thank you! The information you provide will help CDC DASH learn more about the structure, health programs, and services offered by consortia as well as policies that regulate health education, health programming, or health services in member districts and schools.
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Professional Learning On Topics You Want |
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FREE Introductory Webinar
Leadership Practice Network:
Race, Racism, & Equity
Thursday, August 26 at 4 pm Eastern
(3 pm Central; 2 pm Mountain; 1 pm Pacific; noon Alaska).
Free Introductory Webinar
AESA has teamed up with Lee Teitel from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Kate Ericson, Executive Director of LEARN in Connecticut, to offer a limited-series leadership practice network exclusively for ESA directors. Lee and Kate will present this FREE introductory webinar! Join them to learn more about this new leadership network.
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More about the Race, Racism & Equity
Leadership Practice Network
The eight monthly, 2.5-hour sessions will provide participating directors with an informal setting to learn about and discuss key ideas about race, racism, and equity with peers. The approach will be personal and professional, focusing on increasing the participants' understanding and "racial literacy" and providing structured opportunities to apply those ideas as directors in their ESAs and regions.
Participants will develop a deeper understanding of whiteness, exploring how ideas like white privilege, white fragility, and white silence affect them personally and in their professional leadership roles. Directors who are planning initiatives or responding to racial inequities in their districts will get consultation support, ideas, and suggestions from their peers and the facilitators.
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Cost: $3,300 per person
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Virtual Meeting Schedule: Last Wednesday of each month from September 2021 to April 2022.
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Don't Miss Out!
Room Block Deadline is This Wednesday
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Educators' Call To Action Conference
September 15-17, 2021
Washington, D.C.
This conference provides in-depth information that ESA leaders need to equip them for their advocacy both in Washington D.C. and back home. AESA's legislative advocacy team connects participants with experts on the legislative topics that affect educational service agencies and the school districts they serve. Participants receive up-to-the-minute information about emerging and pending federal legislative issues.
The Hotel Reservation Deadline is Wednesday, August 25th.
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Plans are In Full Swing for
36th Annual Conference
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Please join us in Houston, Texas for AESA's 36th Annual Conference! In addition to over 90 educational sessions to choose from, your registration includes some perennial conference favorites. This conference is the premier professional learning and national networking event for all ESA staff. |
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Business Member Spotlight |
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Are your schools tired of emailing, texting, robocalling their parents?
MindShine Technology has a new solution!
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Mindshine Technologies introduces a new, more personal way to communicate with parents this school year. Help your schools promote school spirit with IOTI’s magnet communication.
There is no charge for IOTI and we provide school logo’d magnets for all the homes at no cost.
Once parents have IOTI on their smartphones and they have the refrigerator magnet, principals will be ready to send out videos about upcoming school events tagged to those magnets. Parents simply open the IOTI app, point the IOTI camera at the school magnet, and press play.
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Entrepreneurial ESA Community of Practice
Begins September 28
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AESA is excited to announce that we have partnered with three innovative ESAs to facilitate the 2021-22 Entrepreneurial ESA Community of Practice. Andy Pechacek, Doreen Marvin, Joan Wade, John Bass, and the leadership teams from ESC 20 in San Antonio, Texas; Sourcewell in Staples, Minnesota; and Hamilton County ESC in Cincinnati, Ohio, will lead six 90-minute sessions throughout the year. The topics will include:
- Innovation and Solution Design
- Voice of the customer
- Understanding your customer
- Learning about and responding to your markets
- Clarity About Who You Are and Where You Want to Have a Presence
- How your processes support or hinder your innovation strategy: budgeting, governance, human resources (talent management)
- Establishing the long view of service areas and markets
- Understanding your brand
- Branding as a Component of Innovation and Market Reach
- The ESA Context of Developing and Delivering New Services and Products
- Collaboration and competition among ESAs
- Legal and communication implications for ESAs
All sessions will be held from 2 – 3:30 pm EST on the following dates:
September 28 | November 23 | January 25 | February 22 | March 22 | May 24
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AESA Executive Director
Joan Wade invites you to join the ESA Women's Leadership Network!
This network is designed to support female leaders throughout the nation who lead an educational service agency (ESA), whether in the top CEO position or as a member of the leadership team. Your work is important and staying connected to other female leaders is just as important! The ESA Women in Leadership Network will focus on leadership, career advancement, and personal development this year. All sessions will be held virtually for 90 minutes and registered participants will be invited to attend an in-person, two-day retreat during the spring of 2022.
Cohort I is full, however, there are a few slots available in Cohort II. It would be wonderful to have you join us!
Meeting time: Noon – 1:30 pm EST
September 29 | November 2 | January 11 | March 15 | May 18 | July 12
Topics for Virtual Sessions:
Session 1: Leadership: Equity Leadership in a Politicized Environment
Session 2: Open Guided discussion
Session 3: Career Advancement: Essential Negotiation Skills
Session 4: Open Guided discussion
Session 5: Personal Development: Work-Life Balance
Session 6: Open Guided discussion
In-Person Event
April 27 – 28, 2022
Location TBD
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Virtual Workshop:
Principles of AI for ESAs
This four-session virtual workshop featuring Dr. Duncan Simester is designed specifically for ESAs:
Stay Current
Stay Informed
Learn with AESA!
• Identify the challenges AI can solve within your organization.
• Learn important principles, processes, and concepts related to AI.
• Explore how AI can solve problems and recognize potential pitfalls using ESA scenarios.
This workshop will be held from 2-4 pm EST on the following dates:
October 19 | October 21 | October 26 | October 28
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Business Strategy Framework for ESAs
DATES for 2021-22
This framework is a powerful tool that will help your leaders assess new opportunities and evaluate existing services. The framework provides a consistent approach to strategic marketing or understanding what markets/services your organization should be in and why. The framework sets your team on the right path to discovering game-changing insights about the services they offer by focusing on three specific areas with questions designed to encourage deeper thinking that will uncover previously unrecognized keys to success.
2021-22 Workshops:
Practitioner-Level Workshop: Develop New Leaders in Your Organization
October 12-13, 2021 in Lexington, KY
ESA-centric Business Strategy Framework presented by AESA business experts. AESA offers the same basic workshop as Dr. Simester’s Premier Workshop (see details below), with the primary difference being this workshop features former ESA leaders trained by Dr. Simester. In this format, the presenters rely on several real-life ESA examples to illustrate concepts rather than utilizing the business case approach, just like in the Premier Workshop. This workshop also incorporate hands-on work with real-team projects to enhance the learning experience.
Cost: $6,000 per team of 6 ($5,000 for past participants)
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Premier-Level Workshop: Presented in True MBA Style!
Join Us for a Virtual Workshop May 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13
MIT Sloan School of Business Marketing Professor Duncan Simester, along with AESA Consultants Susan Leddick and Andy Pechacek, lead you through this Business Strategy Framework workshop. Dr. Simester has taught this same framework to scores of Fortune 500 companies around the world. Dr. Simester teaches this session, tailored for ESAs, in true MBA style using business cases and hands-on work with real-team projects to enhance the learning.
Cost: $10,000 per team of 6.
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Registration is OPEN for
these Upcoming AESA Events
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Educators' Call to Action Conference
September 15-17, 2021
Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill
Washington, DC
The deadline to reserve a hotel room is
AUGUST 25. Room rate or availability can't be guaranteed after that date.
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AESA Annual Conference
December 1-4, 2021
Marriott Marquis
Houston, TX
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