Networks to Help You Answer Your Questions |
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We understand small budgets!
Join in the discussion with Dorreen Dembski and LeaAnn Odekirk, two entrepreneurs themselves, who support AESA with communication and marketing services. Dorren and LeaAnn partner to provide customized services for non-profit educational organizations and associations.
Dorreen had 25+ years working for school districts, ESAs, and associations before starting her own business in 2016. LeaAnn's marketing experience extends from corporate America to school districts, associations, and municipalities.
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Next Meeting:
February 9, 2-3:30 p.m ET
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The next Community of Practice for Entrepreneurial ESAs will be sharing best practices for sales and marketing.
We will be featuring Dorreen Dembski and LeaAnn Odekirk, two small business owners who specialize in marketing and communication.
We will discuss:
- Should an entrepreneurial ESA have full-time salespeople?
- How can an ESA compete with companies that have big marketing budgets?
- How to think about your ESA brand in your marketing plan.
Membership to this community of practice is open to all AESA members and will be pro-rated. Contact Joan Wade, Ed.D. jwade@aesa.us for more information.
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Biden's First 10 Days In Office Sees
a Flurry of Executive Orders
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Since his inauguration on January 20, President Biden has signed dozens of executive orders that seek to reverse many of those put in place by President Trump and to enhance the country’s COVID-19 response. A full list of executive actions already signed is linked below.
Those related to education include:
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A message from Noelle Ellerson Ng, AESA Associate Executive Director, Advocacy and Governance
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Assessment and Accountability Letter
As I speak with superintendents and ESA executives across the country, the top question I am receiving is about ‘what can be done to provide flexibility on assessments and accountabilities?’ We are applying the pressure here in DC, both independently and in coordination with the other national K12 groups. At your state level, one option for you to consider would be a group sign-on letter — signed by the various state education associations that support testing flexibility—addressed to the Biden Administration and your Congressional Delegation.
I have included a template letter to help you get the process started. (Thank you to Pennsylvania for sharing the letter their state sent up last week!).
Let me know if you need additional information, including any email addresses or contact information for the Hill that you may need.
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Letter from USED:
Collecting Average Daily Attendance Data
from States
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Earlier this week, USED sent a letter to chief state school officers to detail NCES plans for collecting average daily attendance (ADA) data from states for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years. We recognize that extended school building closures have necessitated remote learning, and that other unique challenges caused by the national emergency related to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), have increased the complexities of ADA data reporting by states. Due to these uncertain times, the Department is providing states flexibility for reporting SY 2019-2020 ADA data in order to ensure the data is consistent and as accurate as possible. As required by section 8101(1) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), each state will continue to report ADA based on either the federal or the state definition of ADA.
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The Committee for Education Funding (CEF) will be hosting a Twitter chat tomorrow! |
Join the @edfunding #5Cents4edfunding Twitter chat
February 3, 2021, @ 10 am ET
CEF (@edfunding on Twitter) is hosting a Twitter chat this Wednesday, February 3, from 10 am-Noon ET, to highlight the many education funding needs for Education Secretary nominee Dr. Miguel Cardona.
At that time, the Senate HELP Committee will be holding a hearing on Dr. Cardona’s nomination. Education funding will be at the forefront as Congress soon debates another COVID relief proposal and the Biden Administration starts putting together its budget request for the fiscal year 2022.
If you want to participate, the questions to prepare for in advance are:
(10 am ET) Welcome to the #5Cents4edfunding chat! Please introduce yourself and let us know you are here. Follow @edfunding to learn more about the importance of federal investments in education!
(10:01am ET) Q1: Education Fact: Federal funding for the Department of Education is $7 billion less than 10 years ago in inflation-adjusted dollars, even though the number of students grew. How have education costs increased for your students and services? #5cents4edfunding
(10:30 am ET) Q2: Education Fact: The federal government spends less than 2% of its budget on education, yet education needs to continue to grow. How would teaching and learning improve in your community if the US spent 5 cents of every federal dollar on education? #5cents4edfunding
(11 am ET) Q3: Education Fact: The pandemic has significantly increased the costs of education, adding to already existing funding gaps. What are some new and ongoing costs facing your schools or programs that the federal government could help support? #5cents4edfunding
(11:30 am ET) Q4: Right now the Senate HELP Committee is holding a hearing on the nomination of Dr. Miguel Cardona as Secretary of Education. What should he know about education funding priorities for the country? #5cents4edfunding
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AESA Needs Your Input:
Virtual Federal Advocacy Committee
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Join the Virtual Federal Advocacy Committee meeting where we will be discussing important federal legislative issues and setting the AESA Legislative Agenda!
2021 Virtual Federal Advocacy Committee Meeting
February 11, 2021, Noon - 3:30 pm Eastern
February 12, 2021, Noon - 3:30 pm Eastern
Each state is invited to send one voting representative who must be a member of AESA. (A state may send more than one member to this important meeting; however, only one vote per state.)
AGENDA (click HERE for the detailed agenda)
February 11 (12-3:30 pm ET)
12 pm: Welcome and AESA Staff Federal Update
12:45 pm: The State of Education Funding
1:30 pm: Break
1:45 pm: Education and Equity
2:30 pm: Of Courts and Agencies
3:15 pm: Wrap Up
3:30 pm: Adjourn
February 12 (12-3:30 pm ET)
12 pm: Welcome/Discussion about Day #1
12:30 pm: Hill Panel
1:15 pm: Legislative Agenda Work
3:30 pm: Adjourn
Sign up now . . . we need your input!
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Help Your Team Transform Your ESA's
Business Strategy: It's Right Around the Corner
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Dr. Simester has taught this same framework to scores of Fortune 500 companies around the world. Companies such as Cisco, Fidelity, Loreal, and others use this training to help discover and develop new leaders within their organizations.
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. This workshop has the power to change how your leadership team thinks about the future of your ESA!
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AESA JOB CENTRAL
Application deadlines are quickly approaching for the following ESA positions:
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Learn More About
ClassLink's AESA Ambassador Program
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What is ClassLink?
ClassLink is a leading provider of cloud-based education products that connect teachers and students with their classroom, their curriculum and each other in richer, more powerful ways. As leading advocates for open data standards, we offer OneClick access to apps and files, provide actionable analytics, streamline class rostering, and automate account provisioning. Founded in 1998, ClassLink’s mission is to empower educators to improve learning through innovative systems and services.
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Join us for a 45-minute webinar about a new program from ClassLink . . .
For over 22 years, ESAs have been partnering with ClassLink through shared advocacy, training, and support. Now, we’re growing that partnership with our new AESA Ambassador Program. By joining, you can save money for your schools with volume discounts and earn rebates for your ESA.
- School districts identified by the "Ambassador" get a 10% purchase discount on ClassLink licenses;
- Earn a 4% rebate on annual license fees for the schools you serve.
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February 4, 2021
2:00 pm Eastern
(1 pm Central; 12 noon Mountain; 11 am Pacific; 10 am Alaska)
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Reading Leaders Book Club |
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February's Book Club:
February 18, 2021, 7 pm Eastern (6 pm Central; 5 pm Mountain; 4 pm Pacific)
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A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan and spares no one -- least of all himself -- in the process.
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