Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Board of Directors March 2012

1. Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Board of Directors March 2012 Lee Warne AESA - Executive Director lwarne@aesa.us

2. 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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4. 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

5. Federal Legislation • Focus on keeping ESAs written into legislation • ESEA reauthorization • E-Rate and Anti-Deficiency Act • Veteran’s bill reauthorization

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. How to Become More Involved in AESA • Attend our Conferences • Summer CEO Conference • July 23-26, 2012 • Boise, Idaho • Educators’ Call to Action Conference • September , 2012 • ARC – Arlington, VA • AESA Annual Conference • 2012 AESA Annual Conference, 12/5-8 • Tampa Bay, Florida • www.aesa.us

13. 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

14. 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: lwarne@aesa.us