BASA Member Update 12.20.19

BASA Member Update December 20, 2019

1. Hot Topics

• Innovative Workforce Incentive Program • Principal Value Added Data Now Available • Training Sessions Coming in January to Connect Data to Improvement • Mental Health and Social-Emotional Learning Summit • Jennings Foundation - Fund for Teachers

2. 2020 Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award Application

HOT TOPICS

Innovative Workforce Incentive Program The Ohio Department of Education and Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation have announced a list of industry-recognized credentials that provides $34 million in funding opportunities to districts under the new Innovative Workforce Incentive Program. Governor Mike DeWine and the Ohio General Assembly developed the program to create more opportunities for students to earn in-demand, industry-recognized credentials. The program includes $9 million in Ohio’s two-year budget for grants to encourage the startup of additional credential programs. Eligible applicants include city, local, and exempted village school districts, community schools, STEM schools, educational service centers and joint vocational school districts. Schools can begin applying for a share of the funding on Dec. 19 through the state’s Comprehensive Continuous Improvement Plan (CCIP) grant application process. Schools also are eligible to receive a share of $25 million from the state budget to establish credential programs that prepare students for careers in priority industry sectors. Under this program, schools can receive $1,250 for each qualifying credential earned by a student. More information about the Innovative Workforce Incentive Program, including the qualifying industry-recognized credentials, is available here . Find general information on high school industry-recognized credentials here . Principal Value Added Data Now Available Superintendents and their designees now can access principal Value-Added data. Districts that are piloting OTES 2.0 should use the Ohio Evaluation System (OhioES) , while those that are not piloting should continue to use the electronic Teacher and Principal Evaluation System (eTPES) . Refer to the Business Rules for Assigning Principal Value-Added Scores for instructions on assigning the appropriate Value-Added scores or other student growth measures for building principals.

Training Sessions Coming in January to Connect Data to Improvement Regional data leads are partnering with the Ohio Department of Education to host five regional training sessions called Journey to Equity: Connecting Achievement and Progress Data . The target audience is district and building leaders. Attendees will learn how to use data to make long-term instructional improvements to ensure equity for all students. The sessions will highlight strategies and tools for improving achievement and progress. To find session dates and locations and to register, go to STARS through the OH|ID portal and use keywords achievement , growth or progress . Watch for additional meetings being planned by regional data leads in the coming months. Topics will focus on using data for specific facets of instructional improvement.

Save the Date! MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING SUMMIT

OSBA and other education groups and mental health associations are planning a Mental Heath and Social-Emotional Learning Summit. This free event will be Feb. 25, 2020, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Learning opportunities will be geared for teachers, counselors, school psychologists, board members, administrators and other school staff. Districts are encouraged to bring a team so that staff can attend multiple breakout sessions. The summit also will include a Resource Fair in which agencies can share information on their resources that are available to district staff. Keynote speakers and session topics are being finalized. More information will be available in November, and registration will open in December. https://www.ohioschoolboards.org/mental-health-and-social-emotional-learning-summit

Jennings Foundation - Fund for Teachers “I am still learning.” — Michelangelo

Do you remember that one teacher who changed your life? To change your students’ lives, start by changing yours. The Jennings Foundation supports Ohio’s students by recognizing, celebrating, and honoring excellence in the teaching profession. Teachers who THINK BIG about their own learning and how to continually improve their craft make a difference. The Jennings Foundation partners with Fund for Teachers to fund public school teachers in Ohio in their pursuit of learning in extraordinary ways. See below for a list of Jennings-Fund for Teachers Fellows who seized their opportunity to grow over the past two years. 2019 Fellow Mark Suter of Elida Schools shares about his fellowship here: https://www. mhjf.org/main-blog/example3grantstoeducators-wftha Applications for the Summer of 2020 Fellowships are open now through January 20. The first step in creating your proposal is visiting Application Learning Center , for resources to assist you. The actual application is here: https://fft.fundforteachers.org/applications/ choose_program?state=oh Whether a solo journey or a learning expedition as a team of teachers, are you ready to take the world in your hands?

2020 Official Nomination Form Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award

Presented by the Buckeye Association of School Administrators

CRITERIA: The BASA Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award will be presented to a female administrator who has demonstrated outstanding educational leadership in making significant contributions to educational administration in a school district, education service center or educational institution. The candidate should be an excellent role model and should encourage others to seek administrative positions. The candidate is required to have a minimum of three years of continuous service as an administrator or college instructor and whose district superintendent has been a BASA member for a minimum of three years. PROCEDURE: The selection committee will include the chair and three members at large of the Women’s Outreach Committee as well as a BASA Director. Any individual may nominate herself or someone else for this award. This official nomination form for the Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award must be submitted to BASA by February 14, 2020. Nominations must be submitted on the official nomination form. If other material is provided the nomination will not be considered. The awards will be presented at the BASA Women’s Conference, and at the BASA Fall Conference. Betsy M. Cowles Betsy M. Cowles was one of the earliest and most noteable female superintendents in the State of Ohio. She was known for her contributions to education, abolitionism and women’s rights in Ohio. She counted among her friends and acquaintances people such as Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry C. Wright and Abby Kelley Foster. Ms. Cowles was a risk taker and stood for what she believed. She spoke out against the Black Laws which kept African Americans from voting in Ohio. She actually quit her teaching job when the school she was working for at the time refused to admit black students. In the 1820’s into the early 1830’s she opened infant schools in northeastern Ohio which were a predecessor to the modern day kindergartens. She earned her teaching degree from Oberlin College in the 1840’s in the third female class to graduate. She taught in grammar schools, in addition to serving as principal and as superintendent of the Please submit your nominations to BASA by February 14, 2020

Painesville Township Local Schools from 1858-1860. She also served as superintendent of the girl’s grammar school and girl’s high school in Canton, Ohio from 1850-1855.

This award will be given annually to a woman who exemplifies outstanding administrative leadership.

Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award Official Nomination Form

Deadline: February 14, 2020

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Name: _______________________________________________________________________ BASA Member? ❑ Yes Position ____________________________________________________________________ Organization ________________________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________________________ City___________________________________State__________ Zip ___________________ Telephone______________________________Fax _________________________________

❑ No Years of continuous service _____________

Other positions held during the past five years:

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I. Description of significant contributions/exemplary leadership:

II. Statement describing how you or the nominated candidate actually enhanced education through exemplary leadership:

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Please return to BASA By February 14, 2020 Buckeye Association of School Administrators 8050 N. High Street, Suite 150

Columbus, OH 43235 Fax: (614)846-4081