BASA Member Update 1.31.2020

BASA Member Update January 31, 2020

1. Hot Topics • Mental Health and Social-Emotional Learning Summit • Special Education Profiles Delayed • Regional Training: Leveraging High-Quality Student Data to Increase Student Achievement and Growth

2. 2020 Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award Application

HOT TOPICS

Mental Health and Social-Emotional Learning Summit February 25 The Ohio School Boards Association is partnering with education groups and mental health associations to offer the Mental Health and Social-Emotional Learning Summit, Feb. 25 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. This free summit will offer learning opportunities designed for teachers, counselors, school psychologists, board members, administrators and other school staff. The association encourages every district to bring a team, so team members can attend multiple breakout sessions . The summit also features a Resource Fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., where agencies will be sharing information about their available resources. For agenda details and registration, visit the OSBA summit webpage . Special Education Profiles Delayed The 2019-2020 Special Education Profiles will be delayed and released in two phases. Due to the expanded disproportionality data included in the profiles this year, additional time is needed to finalize the profiles. The Ohio Department of Education will release 2019- 2020 Special Education Profiles in the following phases: 1. Phase one is targeted for release in late March 2020 . This phase will contain all indicators that may have required actions and detailed action steps. 2. Phase two is targeted for release in late April 2020 . This phase will add informational indicators to help districts with continuous improvement planning. With each profile release, the Department will email notifications to superintendents, special education contacts and community school sponsors.

Regional Training: Leveraging High-Quality Student Data to Increase Student Achievement and Growth Regional data leads are partnering with the Ohio Department of Education to host five regional training sessions called Leveraging High-Quality Student Data to Increase Student Achievement and Growth . The target audience is district and building leaders. In the 2020-2021 school year, state law requires districts to use high-quality student data as part of an educator’s evaluation. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to use EVAAS data, approved vendor assessment data, and local data to increase student achievement and growth. Regional sessions are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following locations: • Feb. 3 –Warren County Educational Service Center at 1879 Deerfield Rd., Lebanon; • Feb. 11 – Athens-Meigs Educational Service Center at 21 Birge Dr., Chauncey; • Feb. 12 – Jefferson County Educational Service Center at 2023 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville; • Feb. 18 – Educational Service Center of Central Ohio at 2080 Citygate Dr., Columbus; and • March 6 – North Central Ohio Educational Service Center at 928 W. Market St., Tiffin. To register for one of the sessions or for more information, including contacts who can answer questions, go to STARS through the OH|ID portal and use keywords achievement, growth or literacy.

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