1. The ABC’s and 123’s of ESSA ALSDE Federal Programs Fall Conference 2018

2. Agenda Welcome/Introductions/Ice Breaker
Federal Programs Timeline Activity
ALSDE Staff and Hector Baeza
Break
New Coordinators’ Survival Tips
Craig Sosebee and Dr. Kim Vivanco
Wrap up / Q & A

3. Acronym Bonus
MEGA

4. Answer Magnificent Educational Gala in Alabama
Malicious Educational Government Association
Meaningful Educational Gathering in Alabama
Big Conference

5. How to survive “Year One”

6. What is my purpose as. Federal Programs Coordinator. What’s my mission
What is my purpose as...Federal Programs Coordinator ? What’s my mission? Serve

7. Where to start? Data, Data, Data What’s our target? What’s working?
Start, Stop, Continue
2014
2015
2016
2017

8. Benefits of monitoring and audits, wait….what?
Check-up

9. Advisory Committee Do you have a good team that will help?
Who to include? School principals, teachers, instructional support, counselors. District administrators, coordinators, community leaders, agency representatives.

10. When is it important?
Aug/Sept, before budgets are finalized and submitted for approval in eGAP
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
March
April
May
June
Feb/March, before you start to make decisions about eligible schools and preliminary budgets

11. What to talk about? Data Review Analysis of needs
Proposed goals and priorities
Decisions that need made? ie. what schools to serve? How to distribute building allocations? What do we do in the event we have carryover?
Proposed Title I SW/TA schools
Proposed Title I Set-asides
Proposed use of Title I-C, II, III, etc
What to talk about?

12. i Don’t forget the dot! Documentation
Sign-in sheet with date, time, title, location, signatures, position/role
Agenda
Presentation handouts to go along with proposals with signature line and suggestion/question line.
Copy of presentation
Minutes i

13. Survival Tip # 1
Transparency with schools and stakeholders about methods of allocating funds and use of funds.

14. Survival Tip # 2 Have you seen the allocation yet ?
Know who to call when you need help fast !
Network !!!
Meet regularly with your region to share innovative ideas ?
Collaborate !
Professional learning !
What do you put in your document library ?
Where is that “consolidated application” check button in eGAP ?

15. Survival Tip # 3 Thoroughly review expenditure reports monthly and give out school copies during principal meetings with notes/highlights.

16. Check-up Survival Tip # 4
If you brought your feelings into the job, kindly place them in your pocket, and don’t be afraid to tell’em “NO”.
Check-up

17. Survival Tip # 5 Review state timeline with your team and develop a timeline that your CIP teams can use that’s specific to your school system.

18. Survival Tip # 6: Communicate Promote teamwork
Survival Tip # 6: Communicate Promote teamwork! Plan together, pd together, solve problems together!

19. Craig Sosebee 205-775-1950 cwsosebee@blountboe.net Don’t just survive….. THRIVE !!

20. You’ve been in Federal Programs too long when……

21. You know what 12-5-1100-411-0105- 4110-0-1500-0000 is.

22. You tell the testing coordinator he can’t use your highlighters and explain to him how that could qualify as supplanting.

23. You tell everyone about applying for funding before egap was invented

24. When you know exactly what someone means when they say NCLB required 95% of the 1% had to go to PI and now ESSA changed that to 90% of 1%

25. You know what Fiscal Year you’ll retire in.