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Association of

Educational Service Agencies

2019 Annual Report

Leadership ● Networking ● Advocacy

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Next Generation of AESA: Bold Steps ………………………………………………………….. 2

2. Establish a National, Collective Vision for ALL learners ……………………………………… 3

a. 2019 Events………………………………………………………………………………… 4

3. Develop a National Campaign for the Whole Child……………………………………………… 5

a. 2019 Policy Priorities ………………………………………………………………………. 6-7

4. Initiate AESA Governance Reform to Reflect Diversity ……………………………………….. 7

a. Executive Council …………………………………………………………………………. 8

b. State Association Executive Directors…………………………………………………... 9

c. Foundation Board of Trustees …………………………………………………………… 10-11

d. Perspectives Editorial Board …………………………………………………………….. 11

e. Executives in Residence …………………………………………………………………. 12

5. Implement Marketing Plan for All Members to Engage with AESA ………………………….. 13

a. Affinity Groups ……………………………………………………………………………... 13-14

b. AESA Communities ……………………………………………………………………….. 15

c. Communication Tools …………………………………………………………………….. 15

d. National Awards …………………………………………………………………………… 16

e. New Services ………………………………………………………………………………. 17-18

Appendices

Appendix A: Financial Summary ……………………………………………………........................ 19

Appendix B: Attendance at AESA National Events ………………………………………………… 20

Appendix C: Business Partners ………………………………………………………………………. 21

Appendix D: Leadership Team ……………………………………………………………………….. 22

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Establish a National, Collective vision

for ALL learners

Mission Our mission is to support and strengthen regional educational service agencies. Who We Are The Association of Educational Service Agencies is a professional organization serving educational service agencies (ESAs) throughout the United States. AESA reaches well over 80% of public school districts, over 83% of the private schools, over 80% of certified teachers, more than 80% of non-certified school employees and, well over 80% of public and private school students. Leadership The Executive Council for AESA selects an annual theme for the association. In 2019, the theme was Equity and Opportunity for all. AESA members believe that all students have a right to learn in an environment that celebrates diversity, includes all students, and personalized instruction is available for every student. We bring our members together within and across states to learn from one another. Through our national events, regional meetings, and affinity groups, we create opportunities for ESAs and their employees to innovate and collaborate. We will continue to focus on Equity and Opportunity for all as we plan AESA events, face-to-face meetings or collaborate electronically through our affinity groups.

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2019 Events

2019 Summer Leadership Conference – Make an Impact: ESAs Leading the Way for Stronger Communities

Held in Long Beach, California, participants focused on community engagement and the collective impact ESAs have when they engage their communities. Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of stakeholders from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem, using a structured form of collaboration. Several ESAs across the country are using Collective Impact in their region. ESAs shared their stories on how Collective Impact has been implemented successfully in their regions.

2019 Educators’ Call to Action Advocacy Conference

The annual Educators’ Call to Action Federal Advocacy Conference provides members with an opportunity to hear from experts on the topics important to ESAs. This year's conference topics included legislation regarding CTE, apprenticeships, student data and privacy, education funding, children’s health, mental health, Medicaid and the census. Additionally, a pre-conference provided tips and strategies for how to advocate for education during tough political times.

2019 Annual Conference – 20/20 The Vision Ahead

The 2019 annual conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, took a close look at the future of education with outstanding keynote presenters. They expanded our vision and helped us to see education from a global perspective. For example, Microsoft’s Senior Executive, Mark Sparvell, shared his work with education leaders from around the world and the innovations they are implementing to create a collective impact on education. Participants also had an opportunity to meet our new colleague from AESA’s China office. Our breakout sessions, deep dives, federal legislative updates, and networking are all designed so that attendees can submerge themselves into the rich collective knowledge that will be shared by our colleagues from all around the country.

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Advocacy We believe that authentic relationships and collaboration include diverse voices. AESA’s effective regional and national networks produce results for the common good. We provide unbiased leadership in Washington, D.C., for our members. In 2019, AESA continued to focus its advocacy work on ESAs and the schools they serve.

AESA held Federal Advocacy Webinars and pushed out up-to-date information on important federal policy issues through AESA Communities. Keeping our members informed on federal issues is key to our success when advocating at the federal level. Our federal legislative agenda is based on equity in education and educational opportunities for all, the appropriate role of the federal government to support and strengthen public education, and the focus on ensuring that high-quality public education should be a viable option for all students and all communities.

Develop a National Campaign for the Whole Child

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2019 Policy Priorities Mental Health: Policy must balance academic and non-academic factors in both the design and evaluation of its proposals. Mental health is a critical complement to the well-being of the total child, and schools and school policy must acknowledge the importance of ensuring that schools, staff, and students have access to mental health supports, services, and programs.

IDEA: IDEA defines the role of the federal government in K12 special education. This law is designed to level the playing field for a historically disadvantaged population, students with disabilities, and to ensure they have equitable access to high-quality educational opportunities. Advocacy around IDEA will relate to both the authorization of the underlying statute and the annual appropriations process.

Educator Shortages: ESAs and the schools they serve are constantly working to ensure they have effective employees. We are currently facing a nation-wide educator shortage. AESA remains committed to the broader systemic conversation about educator shortages. AESA also supports a review of educator retention patterns and pathways, both alternative and traditional, including analysis on high needs schools and teacher diversity.

E-Rate/Education Technology: Education technology, including connectivity, equipment, and professional development for educators, is a critical component to AESA’s support of educational equity and opportunity. The E-Rate program single-handedly transformed the role of technology in classrooms and libraries across the country by supporting the expansion of internet connectivity. The Lifeline program, as modernized in 2014, represents an opportunity for beneficiaries to access the Internet at home; thereby, helping to address and eliminate the homework gap. There is an ever-growing demand for connectivity and bandwidth. E-Rate and Lifeline remain critical components of federal support for ESAs, schools, and libraries, and the students they serve.

Secure Rural Schools (SRS): Secure Rural Schools provides funding for ESAs, schools, and communities that find a portion of their land unavailable for generating revenues or taxes, given the presence of federal lands. The presence of federal land means the community has reduced the ability to generate property taxes (a common source of funding for schools). SRS helps fill some of the void, funding that is especially critical in these rural communities, where a significant portion (sometimes nearing 90%!) of their land is federally held and not subject to the regular state and local taxation.

Appropriations: Public education represents one of our nation’s earliest forms of public infrastructure and requires continued support and investment from the federal level. Public education works to ensure that our nation’s students are prepared to be engaged, community leaders.

Career & Technical Education: ESAs work to ensure all students graduate college and career ready. CTE is the backbone of ESAs’ ability to prepare students for a career or additional career-specific training in the K12 setting.

ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act): ESSA establishes a role for the federal government in K12 education. Designed to level the playing field for a historically disadvantaged population, students in poverty, ESSA, was signed into law in 2015. It represents a significant return to the empowerment of state and local education agencies and education professionals as it relates to education, program design, and implementation, and students.

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Early Childhood Education Just as ESAs and the schools they serve must be ready for the students they enroll, so too must the students be ready (academically, emotionally, and socially) to learn. Student Data & Privacy: Schools have always collected a wide range of data, detailing things from enrollment information and student performance to health and disciplinary records, to allow educators, school leaders, and the community to have a glimpse at how the schools and students are doing and to inform teaching and learning. While increased data use has the potential to transform education for the better, empowering students and teachers to expand learning in ways they couldn’t before the evolution of digital technology, it also has the potential to put sensitive student information at risk. Effective policies can help curtail some of the risks that accompany student data collection and ensure that data is used ethically to support learning.

Initiate AESA Governance Reform to Reflect Diversity

Leadership

We believe that courageous leadership inspires bold solutions to current and future complex challenges. We also believe that systemic change requires boundary-spanning leadership.

The AESA Executive Council and Leadership Team understand that a wide range of perspectives is critical to effective governance. All of our boards must cast a wide net to ensure representation from all corners of the country, be it gender, race, generational, educational experience or accomplishments. The AESA Foundation Board of Trustees and the editor for the Perspectives Journal have implemented these leadership changes. Initiating this bold step has resulted in increasing our members’ representation on these important boards.

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AESA Executive Council

Jill Broussard, President Superintendent Pinal County Florence, AZ

Jon Sheldahl, President-Elect Chief Administrator Heartland Area Education

Agency Johnston, IA

Phoebe Bailey, Past President Director Southwest Arkansas ESC Hope, AR

Jeremy Biehl Agency Administrator CESA #5 Portage, WI

Craig Burford Executive Director Ohio Educational Service

Center Assoc (OESCA) Columbus, OH

Wanda Cook-Robinson Superintendent Oakland ISD Waterford, MI

John George Executive Director Montgomery County

Intermediate Unit 23 Norristown, PA

Jeff Goldhorn Executive Director Region 20 ESC San Antonio, TX

Jan Hanlon Executive Director Regional Education Service

Agency #2 Huntington, WV

Nancy Hutchinson CEO Kentucky Educational

Development Corp. Ashland, KY

Maria Jaramillo Executive Director Central Region Education

Cooperative Albuquerque, NM

Charles Khoury District Superintendent Ulster BOCES New Paltz, NY

Laurie Newell Superintendent Essex County ESC Fairfield, NJ

John Welch Superintendent Puget Sound ESD Renton, WA

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State Association Executive Directors

California California County Superintendents

Educational Services Association (CCSESA)

Peter Birdsall Executive Director

Colorado Colorado BOCES Association

Dale McCall Executive Director

Iowa Iowa’s Area Education Agencies

David Ludwig Executive Director

Massachusetts Massachusetts Organization of

Educational Collaboratives (MOEC)

Joanne Haley Sullivan Executive Director

Michigan MI Assoc. of Intermediate School Administrators (MAISA)

William Miller Executive Director

Nebraska NE Educational Service Units

Coordinating Council

Kraig Lofquist Executive Director

New York Boards of Cooperative Educational

Services of New York State (BOCES of NY State)

Lynne Wells Executive Director

Ohio Ohio Educational Service Center

Association (OESCA)

Craig Burford Executive Director

Oregon Oregon Association of Education Service Districts (OAESD)

Gary Peterson Executive Director

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units (PAIU)

Tom Gluck Executive Director

Washington WA Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESD)

Jessica Vavrus Executive Director

Wisconsin Wisconsin Cooperative Educational

Service Agency Statewide Network (CSN)

Gary Albrecht Executive Director

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AESA Foundation Board of Trustees

Jerry Maze, Chair Executive Director Region XII ESC Waco, TX

Phoebe Bailey, AESA Past-President Director Southwest Arkansas ESC Hope, AR

Jill Broussard, AESA President Superintendent Pinal County Florence, AZ

Harold A. Coles District Superintendent Southern Westchester BOCES Rye Brook, NY

Mike Cook Executive Director ESSDACK Hutchinson, KS

Wanda Cook-Robinson Superintendent Oakland Schools Waterford, MI

Doreen Marvin Consultant Obelisk Consulting Services Norwich, CT

Laurie Newell, PhD Superintendent Essex Regional ESC Fairfield, NJ

Andy Pechacek CEO KiNETiC Group, LLC Houston, TX

Suzanne Riley Retired Executive Director Southeast Service Cooperative Rochester, MN

Jon Sheldahl, AESA President-Elect

Chief Administrator Heartland Area Education

Agency Johnston, IA

Mike Soules President Corwin Press Thousand Oaks, CA

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Valentina Viletto, Esq. Director of Community & Gov’t

Relations Montgomery County IU 23 Norristown, PA

Sheryl Weinberg Executive Director SERRC-Alaska’s Ed. Resource

Center Juneau, AK

Rickey Williams Deputy Executive Director Region 10 ESC Richardson, TX

AESA Perspectives Editorial Board

Scott Menzel, Editor Superintendent Michigan

Jerry Maze Executive Director Texas Southern Region

Chris Moddelmog Executive Director Kansas Western Region

Paula Vincent Retired Iowa Central Region

Joan Schuman Retired Massachusetts Eastern Region

Craig Burford Executive Director Ohio Eastern Region

AESA Foundation Board of Trustees, cont.

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The Executives in Residence program is a yearlong, performance-based opportunity that:

• includes a strong mentor component by CEOs of the executive council and host organizations;

• provides access to a variety of leadership experiences;

• works in a cohort model providing national networking and communication.

The program commences in July of each year will prepare our next generation of CEOs with the needed skills. We look forward to your application to this opportunity in leadership in the fastest growing education sector in our community.

The Director of the Executives in Residence Program is Cliff Carmody. Cliff is the executive director of the South West/West Central Service Cooperative in Marshall, Minnesota.

2018-19 Executives in Residence Program Participants: Name Position Organization City, State Sam Atkins Chief Development Officer KEDC Ashland, KY

Trisha Carroll Chief Operating Officer KEDC Ashland, KY

Dr. Jennifer Dodd Dir. of Ops & Development ESC of NE Ohio Independence, OH

Katherine Erickson Assoc. Exec. Dir. of LEARN Magnet Schools

LEARN Old Lyme, CT

Chad Hilliker Superintendent Hamilton County ESC Cincinnati, OH

John Kurelja Chief Academic Officer Central Susquehanna IU

Milton, PA

Naomi Norman Asst. Supt. of Achievement & System Supports

Washtenaw ISD Ann Arbor, MI

Jeffrey Smith Regional Coordinator of Adult Education

SERRC Juneau, AK

Jeffrey Stone Deputy Dir., Business & Technology Services

Region 20 ESC San Antonio, TX

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Implement Marketing Plan for All Members to Engage With AESA

Networking Affinity Groups support our members as they broaden their professional networks. These groups are open to any employee whose ESA is a member of AESA. Affinity Groups are formed around common interests or issues and provide AESA members with a place to discuss common challenges and to support each other. It is a space for ESA professionals to hone their skills and to tap into an online network of peers to advise, share, and support each other’s work. Participants don’t have to travel, commit lots of time or be limited to professionals in their state or region. Meetings occur electronically throughout the year.

Affinity Groups

Blended/Personalized Learning explores the changing instructional landscape as it moves from a traditional teacher-led model toward various student-centered models of blended and personalized learning. Participants share ideas and approaches about how ESAs can support this changing landscape, particularly around ESA services that support schools and promote the shift of instructional practice around these 21st-century pedagogies.

Business Office Officials focus on sharing best practices related to business office operations. The group will explore several topics including budgeting, costing, contracts, the management of staff, data collection related to services, customer service feedback and more.

Communications/PR is a professional learning community supporting those individuals at ESAs around the country that have a job function, interest, or expertise related to marketing, branding, communications, social media, design, public relations, and the like! Members of this group post questions, suggestions, ideas, innovations, resources, links, or documents for everyone to access. Together, the group addresses common issues and shares how to get the word out to members about ESA programs and services.

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Entrepreneurialism keeps the focus on building stronger ESAs through entrepreneurship by exploring business models and service opportunities that generate and diversify revenue. Group members share best practices, strategies, and resources to design financially viable programs and services that bring value and innovative solutions to ESA members.

Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice is a place to share your ESA’s work around equity, inclusion and social justice. This Affinity Group is for AESA members interested in sharing resources, new learning and successes around this topic.

Facilities examine how facility operations and improvements affect the health, behavior, learning, and engagement of building occupants while benefiting the district’s bottom line. Explore energy efficiency, school safety, achieving state and federal compliance, and securing funding. Whether an ESA has well-established facilities management services, is in the early stages of developing services, or wants information on how to get started, everyone is welcome to join the conversation.

Leadership explores the actions and activities of leadership from a personal, team, and organizational growth perspective. ESA leaders all face similar issues. By addressing these issues together, participants can utilize our brainstorming and problem-solving skills to help each other find viable solutions! The topics will be dynamic and ever-changing

New CEO supports new CEOs and fairly new CEOs. The purpose of this Affinity Group is to connect new CEOs to network, benchmark, learn together, problem-solve and discuss resource acquisition.

Open Education Resource (OER) supports the ever-changing instructional landscape as it moves from a traditional paper textbook and materials toward various Open Education Resource (OER) materials for online and face-to-face instruction. Participants will share ideas and approaches about how ESAs support this changing instructional practice and ESA services that support schools and promote the shift.

Program Evaluation focuses on exploring ways of quantifying the impact of professional learning in educational settings. This affinity group provides a network of practitioners committed to the ongoing improvement of professional learning and other offerings. Collaborate to share proven successes and problems of practice.

Special Education Service Providers Think Tank is for interested special education director/coordinators that want to connect quarterly to share their successes, challenges, trends, and innovative ideas related to the delivery of special education services. Participation in this national forum will offer ESA leaders’ insights related to the provision of cutting-edge special education services to anticipate and meet the needs of their clients.

Teaching & Learning participants will have access to other professionals that support or have a passion for curriculum and instruction. Members can post questions, offer suggestions, share innovations, explore challenges, and provide resources. This online community assists in the development of outstanding teaching and learning practices in our local educational service agencies.

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AESA Communities

The AESA Community is our online portal, where the Affinity groups meet to dialog about important issues that matter to them. There is an All Member section on the Communities platform for AESA members to interact with each other. AESA Communities keep our members connected every day!

Communications Tools

AESA Online News is a bimonthly newsletter that is delivered directly to our members’ inboxes. It includes news from AESA about upcoming events, federal advocacy, and spotlights the work of our members and our business partners.

Perspectives Journal publishes monthly articles for an annual journal reflecting needs, policies, research, and other issues affecting ESAs. ESAs around the country benefit from the depth of experience and expertise of these leaders.

Social media continues to grow as an important communication tool for our members. Join us on twitter @AESANetwork and be sure to like us on Facebook!

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National Awards

David Distel receives 2019 Peter C. Young Service Award The Peter C. Young Service Award goes to an individual for extensive leadership and service in the advancement of ESAs at the state, regional and national levels. This year’s award recipient is Dr. David Distel. Dr. Distel’s service to AESA is unprecedented throughout his many years of service. He has served as President of the Executive Council, President of the Foundation Board has been a leader in the Executive in Residence program and served as a host to participants during their week-long residency every year since the program began. Dave would routinely organize leadership exchanges with ESAs from other states to share ideas with other leadership teams. Dave was instrumental in the development of the silent and live auctions at the AESA Annual Conference and would bring a team of support to run the auctions throughout the event. Dave has been a leader in formal roles with AESA but was also one to be running things behind the scenes to make sure that things got done and that they got done right!

The California Center on Teaching Careers receives the 2019 Brian L. Talbott Award Funded through California’s 2017 state budget, the California Center on Teaching Careers (CCTC) is the state’s lead educational recruitment agency and works in partnership with six other county offices of education to provide regional support and collaborative partnership for recruitment efforts statewide. Utilizing technology, CCTC has created a virtual hub (Center.californiateach.org) that creates an online experience tailored to educational agencies and teacher candidates by enabling both to create personalized portfolios within the site. Not only does the hub provide videos, tips, marketing, and advertising to aid recruitment, but the CCTC’s virtual hub also matches candidates with hiring educational service agencies (ESAs) throughout the state.

Drs. Janet Gordon and Hilary Loeb receive the 2019 Robert E. Stephens Award Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) Strategy Evaluation and Learning Department has

partnered with Kauffman and Associates, Inc. (KAI), to evaluate the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and Washington Association of Educational Service District (ESD) Professional Development Network. The PSESD-KAI evaluation provided valuable insights into the influence of professional development offered by staff across Washington’s nine ESDs in the areas of early learning, English language arts, mathematics, and science. Through a range of user-friendly briefs and reports found on the Washington AESD Website, the evaluation provides actionable information that has helped educate legislators about the Professional Development Network and shape continuous improvement of teacher learning delivered through Washington’s ESDs.

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LtoR: Joan Wade, AESA Ex. Dir., Dave Distel, Hamilton County ESC Ex. Dir., and Jerry Maze, AESA Foundation Chair.

LtoR: Stanley Mantooth, Superintendent, Ventura COE; Brian Talbott, Retired AESA, Tim Hire, Superintendent, Tulare COE, Joan Wade, AESA Ex. Dir.

LtoR: Joan Wade, AESA Ex. Dir., Dr. Hilary Loeb, Dir. of Strategy, Evaluation & Learning, PSESD, and Dr. Janet Gordon, VP of Education, Kaufman Associates, Inc.

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New Services

AESA was excited to introduce several new services designed especially for ESAs.

AESA Connect provides a streamlined, user-friendly process for event registration. The program automatically sends a registration confirmation email to both the registrant and the system administrator. If credit card payment method is used, a credit card transaction receipt is generated and emailed to the user. Users are provided easy access to event participation history. System administrators can track registrations and produce reports to aid in invoicing and other event management tasks.

AESA Meeting Manager allows users to go paperless with board meetings. This program includes the ability to: access information 24/7 from any computer, tablet, or smartphone; search current and archived information; manage calendars online; link directly to the user’s public website; download, store, and print board packets and other information; upload and manage documents (handbooks, policies, etc.); create agendas from scratch or existing templates; link goals to specific board meeting agenda items; categorize meetings (regular, emergency, committee); instantly notify and alert board members when updates or the agenda is available; engage “auto-pilot,” for those who want to follow the main screen.

Executive Searches are designed especially for educational service agencies. Selecting the right CEO for an agency is the board’s most important role. Finding a CEO who will achieve the vision and mission of the ESA and also serve the school districts in its region is an important decision that will impact school districts’ effectiveness, efficiency and improve student achievement. This service is designed to make hiring a CEO a positive learning experience. AESA offers a highly- customized service with maximum flexibility in the decision- making process.

Board Training and Support provides customized training to equip ESA board members with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to fulfill their responsibilities as board members. AESA develops customized training programs that provide information on effective governance specifically designed for ESAs. Additional training topics can be provided upon request.

Communication Audit is conducted by a highly-qualified communication consultant who will audit internal and external communication by visiting on-site, using surveys, focus groups, interviews, and reviewing the communication processes and products currently developed by the agency. The consultant will then work with your designated staff to develop a preliminary communication plan. The final communication plan is the result of collaboration with agency staff, using local audit results, researched best practices, and in consideration of the agency’s goals and needs.

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New Services, cont. Leadership Training is provided by the partnership of AESA, Sourcewell (a

member of AESA), and GiANT Worldwide (an organization that creates better leaders, high-performing teams and healthy cultures). The program uses the 100X Leader Summer Summit experience with the regional ESA serving as host and local partner in the development of leader and team performance. The 100X Leader Summer Summit is a half-day learning experience for leaders around GiANT Leadership principles and practices. GiANT has been a global thought leader in people and systems development for the past 15 years. Participating districts will be given access to proven tools designed to raise team performance as well as the best- selling 100X Leader Book recently released in March of 2019.

Site Visits will help visiting ESAs select appropriate ESAs, explore their products and services, investigate evidence of success and follow up with a retreat for sharing and implementing outcomes with your leadership team members. When well planned and coordinated, site visits are powerful professional learning experiences that can make significant contributions to advancing your organization.

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Financial Summary (Audited)

Revenues June 30, 2017 June 30, 2018 June 30, 2019* Corporate Support $354,162 $424,542 $485,900 Membership Dues $279,046 $274,376 $272,892 Annual Conference Net $135,537 $240,776 $157,865 Sponsored Dinners N/A $26,758 $20,000 Other Income $33,171 $16,551 $24,057 Summer Leadership Net $7,527 $11,661 $2,712 Interest Income $3,651 $7,159 $18,893 Royalty Payment N/A $3,148 $1,712 Legislative Conference Net $17,559 $202 $9,282 Loss on Disposition of Assets

-$439 $0 $0

Total Revenues $830,214 $1,005,173 $993,313 Expenses

Consulting, Meeting, and Other

$496,895 $427,380 $344,635

Personnel Costs $235,421 $346,838 $503,667 Travel $71,211 $59,161 $51,810 Total Expenses $803,527 $833,379 $900,112

* Unaudited

Appendix A

Budget and Financial Summary

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Event Number of Attendees

Number Increase

% Increase

2018 Summer Leadership Conference 108 2019 Summer Leadership Conference 116 8 7.4% 2018 Educators’ Call to Action 78 2019 Educators’ Call to Action 71 -7 -8.9% 2018 Annual Conference 897 2019 Annual Conference 879 -18 -2%

Annual Conference Attendance Details:

Type 2018 2019 Regular Attendees 721 695 Business Partners 57 49 Exhibitors 119 135 Total 897 879

Appendix B

Attendance at AESA National Events

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Appendix C

Business Partners

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Executive Team

Executive Director Joan Wade, ED.D. 920-420-8822 [email protected]

Chief Operations Officer John Bass 806-290-3092 [email protected]

Administrative Services Executive Ann Fiene 715-966-1688 [email protected]

AEPA Executive Director George Wilson 270-996-8970 [email protected]

Consulting Team

Meetings Management Services Dyanne Hughes 904-624-0940 [email protected]

Communications Services Dorreen Dembski 262-689-9891 [email protected]

Business Services Director Mat Dutkiewicz 513-236-5861 [email protected]

Business Services Director Pete Titone 541-359-9270 [email protected]

Assoc. Executive Director,

Policy & Advocacy Noelle Ellerson Ng 703-774-6935 [email protected]

Advocacy Director Sasha Pudelski 703-774-6933 [email protected]

Policy Analyst Chris Rogers 703-203-3105 [email protected]

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Leadership Team

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