1 Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Board of Directors March 2012 Lee Warne AESA - Executive Director

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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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 4

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

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 6

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 7

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 1 st yr. 8

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 9

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. 10

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 11

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

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 Phone: