ESSA and the Changing Education Landscape What’s I all about and how will it impact me? Charlotte ellis - ME Peter Tamayo – WA Brian townsend - vt © Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community

The New Education Operation Model Top down education is now shifting to a more dispersed, locally controlled model . Top down education shifting to a more dispersed, locally controlled model

Horizontal and Vertical SIF 10,000 Foot Focus View Horizontal and Vertical SIF Vertical Reporting SIF Focused Support © Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community

ESSA and Privacy Title II A Vision Title IV A Vision The Building Systems of Support for Excellent Teaching and Leading is focused on improving the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other school leaders. States and districts may use this program for a variety of professional development and other activities consistent with these three areas, including providing technology and student data privacy focused professional development The Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) program is intended to help meet these goals by increasing the capacity of State educational agencies (SEAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), schools, and local communities to: 1) provide all students with access to a well-rounded education, 2) improve school conditions for student learning, and 3) improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students.

Privacy ESSA Impact Areas Title IV A Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) Content areas for States and Districts: Safe and Healthy Students Promoting community and parent involvement in schools Establishing community partnerships Effective Use of Technology Building technological capacity and infrastructure including data privacy support Title II A Technology and Student Data Privacy Professional Development States and Districts may... Support efforts to train teachers on the appropriate use of student data to ensure individual student privacy is protected. Provide high-quality evidence-based professional development for school leaders including supporting teachers, and principals to– (ii)  …understand how to protect individual student privacy in accordance with FERPA, and state and local policies and laws

Cross-State Collaboration Project Community: Establish a national Privacy Community of Practice with state alliances to: Support realistic feedback and effective communications on privacy policy development at federal, state and local levels Curriculum: “Wires to the Classroom” - addressing governance, effective practices, targeted PD FERPA 101 course for vendors including LEA/SEA vendors Tools: Online tools for practitioners to support privacy practice Contract Language / Terms of Service Policy Alignment / Etc. Evaluation: Assessments of processes aligned to incidents Application Vetting / Privacy Certification / Impact Analysis

Proposed Next Steps Survey interested SEAs/LEAs in “high pain point” privacy issues and prioritize them SEAs identify the SDPC in their developing accountability planning Clarifying Funding Opportunities Schedule Follow-Up Call to Review Survey Responses

Discussion Overall, how is your agency reacting to the new ESSA legislation? In your sphere of influence in the agency, how are you reacting to the new ESSA legislation? Generally, how should LEAs in your state or other states be preparing for SEA plans currently under development?  Generally, how should marketplace providers be preparing for SEA plans currently under development?  © Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community

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