michigan association of intermediate school administrators board of directors march 2012
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Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Board of Directors March 2012 Lee Warne AESA - Executive Director [email protected]. The AESA Mission:. Serve as a national voice for ESAs; Provide professional development, technical assistance, advocacy, and research; - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators
Board of Directors March 2012Lee Warne
AESA - Executive [email protected]
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The AESA Mission:
Serve as a national voice for ESAs; Provide professional development, technical
assistance, advocacy, and research; Help member agencies promote, distribute, and
leverage ESA knowledge, products, and services; Assist in the establishment of ESAs.
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2011
AESA.US
AESA’s Priorities:
• Professional Development for ESA’s• Technical Assistance to ESA’s• Supporting New ESA’s– States– Creating statewide networks
• Increasing our level of communications and develop an information repository
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Federal Legislation
• Focus on keeping ESAs written into legislation
• ESEA reauthorization• E-Rate and Anti-Deficiency Act• Veteran’s bill reauthorization
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ESEA Reauthorization
• AESA Key Talking Points – – We support a new framework for the
reauthorization of ESEA that focuses the federal role on students in poverty
– We support strengthening the connection between high poverty schools and federal programs providing health and mental health care for children and their families, particularly ages zero to five
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ESEA Reauthorization
• AESA Key Talking Points– Support the use of formative assessments to
directly improve student achievement– Support an accountability system that uses
multiple sources of evidence and a growth measure; is fair to all students and calls for federal authority that is commensurate with federal funding
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Latest Federal Financial Info
• Obama Budget pushes ED – but still relies on competition
• Title I and IDEA are level fund but only = 15.8% of the 40% promised
• $1 B for RttT and I3 - $850 M is RttT• Sequestration – congress needs to find $1.2 T
in savings over 10 yrs or cuts will be automatic Jan. 13 = 9% across the board in 1st yr.
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Common Core
• Wisconsin – – All CESAs did phase I together using common
awareness kit to train schools– Each CESA is now moving into the next level– CESA 7 has a software system that they have
developed and sell. Some agencies and state’s departments of education have been using them
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Common Core
• Michigan (That’s YOU!)
–Have done the phase I portion together–Currently developing the next round of
information–Your statewide network helps greatly! Not
all states have the ability to coordinate this kind of work.
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Common Core
• Iowa–Prior to Common Core Standards had Iowa
Core Standards in place – very similar–Adopted Common Core–AEAs, department of education worked
together to develop common training materials.–AEAs training the teachers
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How to Become More Involved in AESA
Attend our ConferencesSummer CEO Conference
July 23-26, 2012 Boise, Idaho
Educators’ Call to Action ConferenceSeptember , 2012ARC – Arlington, VA
AESA Annual Conference2012 AESA Annual Conference, 12/5-8
Tampa Bay, Floridawww.aesa.us
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AESA Business Partners
& Sponsors
Corwin Press Direct Energy
Grace Global Marsden Holdings
Great American Financial Resources
Promethean AEPA
Psychological Software Solutions
United States Academic Decathlon
Mid-Continent Regional Education Laboratory
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Contact AESA
Visit the AESA Website Often
We are constantly updating information important to your ESA
www.aesa.us
Phone:507-401-3306
E-Mail: [email protected]