1. 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
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2. 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

3. Horizontal and Vertical SIF
10,000 Foot Focus View
Horizontal and Vertical SIF
Vertical
Reporting SIF
Focused
Support
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4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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? 
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