November 24, 2020
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The 2020 AESA Virtual Annual Conference kicks off soon on Wednesday, December 2. We have a packed three-day online program of big topics, live sessions, and chances to interact with members and partners. 

This year everyone who registers receives up to 3 months to view the approximately 80 breakout sessions that other ESA members are presenting. This is the first time this has been possible. 

We hope that without travel several of your staff members can attend sessions that are of interest to them. 
Join us VIRTUALLY
for the
35th Annual Conference!
Learn how to create value for your ESA:
It’s a new world and we are reinventing ourselves!

Engage with other ESA presenters:
Find out how your peers design and deliver successful services.

Stay current on federal legislative issues that matter to education: Your voice is critically important!

A New Edition of Perspectives is Ready!
PERSPECTIVES is AESA's online journal about issues and topics critical to ESAs.
November's edition is called
Machine Learning Methods for K-12 Early Warning Systems
Member News!
Aspiring Superintendents Learn from Ohio ESA
The Educational Service Center of Central Ohio brought intensive professional development to educators on the path to the superintendency.

Read their story in this month's District Administrator magazine. (Article used with permission.)
Resources from the FCC
for Virtual, Hybrid and In-Person Instruction
The Federal Communications Commission has asked us to remind you of several online resources that may be helpful as you continue to engage in all virtual, in-person, or hybrid models for this school year.

Tips include hygiene for keeping devices clean, COVID-19 scams, community services, and more.
Pandemic Taking Its Toll on Sufferers of Eating Disorders: Evidence-based Curriculum Available
Free Resources from Harvard University
FREE TRAINING from
Harvard University's School of Public Health

Harvard University’s School of Public Health offers a FREE evidence-based training called, “Be Real”, for all school personnel on improving school climate for body confidence and related risk factors for eating disorders among students. 

This training will help school personnel create body-confident schools and offer an evidence-based curriculum that can be used in the classroom.

Details of Training:

December 9, 3-4:30 pm, EST

Report: Economic Costs of Eating Disorders

Nine percent of Americans will experience an eating disorder during their lifetime, with onset beginning as young as the age of 5, according to a recent report published in Harvard’s School of Public Health newsletter.

Two-thirds of children in higher-weight bodies are at risk of developing an eating disorder or engaging in unhealthy weight-control measures. 

Additionally, COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on youth mental health, including eating disorders (i.e. with the focus on the “COVID-15”), with researchers seeing a significant increase in eating disorders behaviors (restrictive eating and binging) within those at risk or having the disorder. 

The research was conducted by Harvard's Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED), in collaboration with the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), and Deloitte Access Economics.

Lame Duck Congress Urged to Fund Schools
AESA and seventeen (17) other national organizations released a joint statement calling on Congress to invest in schools during the lame duck period.
Reading Leaders Book Club
Next Meeting:
December 17, 2020
7 pm EST; 6 pm CT, 5 pm Mountain, 4 pm Pacific; 3 pm Alaska
December Book Choice:
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
January's Book Choice:

The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel, by Abi Darè
Have you visited the AESA
Business Partner Directory lately?
AESA carefully partners with businesses that serve ESAs with products and opportunities that can enhance your services. Please take a look at all they have to offer!