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We heard your feedback! This year's conference will feature many of the same favorite features BUT in a NEW timeframe!
You asked for it: We delivered.
Save the DATES:
The AESA Annual Conference days are now Wednesday-Friday, November 30-December 2, 2022. Conference programming begins on Wednesday and concludes on Friday.
Registration isn't quite open yet - but soon!
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And thank you! We had an absolutely awesome response to the Call for Proposals for the 2022 Annual Conference! Now, we are working hard on sorting and selecting breakout sessions, so please be patient. You will hear from us soon!
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From the Federal Legislative Team:
Food Research & Action Center Webinars
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AESA is co-sponsoring a series of webinars with the Food Research & Action Center to provide support to those interested in participating in the Community Eligibility Provision. We believe that with the waivers ending, more will be interested in the program after being able to provide free meals to all students for the past two years.
Here are the dates, topics, and links to more information:
Thursday, April 21: Community Eligibility Provision (CEP): Overcoming the Loss of School Meal Application Data - Community eligibility eliminates the need to collect school meal applications, which have long been used for a wide range of education and funding purposes. Join us for this webinar to learn how schools across the country have been able to successfully overcome the loss of this data in order to offer free meals to all of their students.
Thursday, May 5: Making CEP Work with Low ISPs and Partial District Implementation - The pandemic has highlighted the value of offering school meals at no charge to all students. Community Eligibility provides an excellent opportunity for high-poverty schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students beyond the 2021-2022 school year. The community eligibility reimbursement formula determines what percent of meals are reimbursed at the free and paid rates. Thousands of schools and districts across the country have experienced the benefits of community eligibility by participating with ISPs below 60 percent and by having individual schools participate within a district. Join this webinar to learn about the strategies and resources available for making community eligibility work with low ISPs and/or partial district implementation.
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EduTalk Radio
Jeremy Kovash is the executive director of the Lakes Country Service Cooperative in West Central Minnesota. This is Jeremy's 27th year in public education, serving the past 16 as director of this educational service agency.
Kovash talks about how Lakes Country assists schools with innovative programs and services in risk management, finance, procurement, early childhood, technology, academic programs, and special education to name a few.
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Check out this podcast sponsored by AESA member Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units. |
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Small ESA Community of Practice
April 21, 2 p.m. ET
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ESAs Providing Grant Writing Services to Their Districts
Come learn how two ESAs in Wisconsin and Texas work with their districts to write grants for their members.
Federal grant writing as a service to school districts
Presenter: Jessica Riley, Director for Grant Writing, CESA 6, WI
General grant writing as a service to school districts
Presenters: Tanya Larkin, Executive Director, Region 16 ESC, TX
Nathan Maxwell, Associate Executive Director, Region 16 ESC, TX
Vickie Ansley, Coordinator of Federal Programs, Region 16 ESC, TX
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AESA Awards Program:
Nominations Now Open
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Annually, the AESA Executive Council invites its members to recognize their colleagues and peers for their contributions to educational service agencies. Nominations are now open for the 2022 awards program.
Visit our website to learn more about each of AESA's national awards. The criteria and nomination process for each award is fully described in the nomination forms.
All nominations must be postmarked by June 15, 2022.
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From AESA Business Partners |
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TOP Cyber-Defense Measures for Improving Your Cyber-Risk Profile ASAP |
Last week we discussed “Email Security and Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Training.” This week we discuss data backup, firewalls, incident response and business continuity measures for improving your cyber-risk profile the BEST you can as FAST as you can.
Digital Transformation is introducing more and more technology to support public entities and K-12 districts' efforts to provide critical services to their communities. With this comes more and more potential “openings” for cyber criminals to attack.
Many cybersecurity experts state “it is not a question of IF, but rather WHEN an organization will be attacked." Given this, it is important to prioritize taking the proper precautions to minimize the impact of a potential attack.
Smart data storage and backup, firewall, incident response, and business continuity policies and planning are four (4) of the most important considerations for minimizing the potential for disruption of services.
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ResoluteGuard uses the industry's best internal and external scanning tools to identify your cyber-risk strengths and weaknesses and populate easy-to-use, easy-to-understand smart workflow reports that align the governance, administration, and technical activities to the common objective: avoiding disruption of critical services.
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Test Drive Business Partner's Product
from the Parent/Guardian Perspective!
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Last month we introduced our new, paperless reporting system for EyeSpy 20/20 vision screenings and the response was absolutely fantastic. Some of you wanted to "see the system for yourself" hence, today's article. We have created a 1-minute video showing how easy it is for parents to retrieve their child's results right from their phone. |
We would love for you to experience the simplicity of this notification system from the parent's perspective. We have provided a sample screening for your retrieval. CLICK HERE to see the report from your phone or computer and then use the following information:
School ID: 24605
DOB: 10/15/2005
First Initial: J
Last Initial: T
Student ID: 12345
If you are performing this on your phone, try viewing the report in portrait mode and then rotate the phone to landscape mode and you will see more detail about the screening.
If you enter any information incorrectly, the system will not retrieve a report. This is important because only the parent/guardian will have the necessary information to verify that they are authorized to view the screening results.
Next month we will provide you the ability to "test drive" another exciting aspect of the system, so stay tuned.
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Registration is Open!
Summer Leadership Conference
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Come for the learning . . . enjoy the location! |
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