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Good afternoon, everyone. Hopefully you can see me and hear me well maybe hear me not see me. I don't know.

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This is Jeanette Nobo. I know it shows Michelle Miller underneath my name or that Michelle Miller's talking, but this is Jeanette Nobo and this is our third zoom meeting that we have had. I do ask that if you can take a little bit of your time and indicate

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Who you are, give your name and USD and whether you are an OB teacher system leader, or both. And then what year you're in the cycle that would be very helpful as we collect information and see how useful these

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Zoom meetings are in support meetings and also to have a general idea of who's attending and and so that we can adjust the training a little bit better for you. So one of the things

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That I want to start off is by saying that we have had, like I said to zoom additional zoom meetings, our first meeting was in October. Unfortunately, I had some technical difficulties with those, and I have not yet re-recorded that session.

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But I do intend to do that and then place it up on the zoom or next to the date of that zoom meeting on the website. The other one, the one in November, that one was recorded and

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I needed to send that to IT before it is placed up on our website. So they have that right now and I'm hoping that in the next few days. There'll be able to do whatever magic, they need to do with that and then send me a link that I can place on the website for all of you to see.

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It has been a learning experience for me right now but

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I'm hoping that the third time's a charm. So maybe this one will get posted much more quicker that that's not even right that's not even a right way to say that much quicker and

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You'll be able to access or others in the field will be able to access these quickly. So let me start off with the agenda.

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I, I wanted to do a couple of things. One is discuss the KESA ARC process and the KESA, the application for the ARC. I also wanted to be able to provide you with some

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Expectations. I know that there have been many systems, who have currently

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Switch years. In other words, they were either they came in, either as a year for and then they move down to a year to or they came in as a year three, and then move down to a year one, etc.

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And that was after they had visits and stuff. So I want to tell you what how we're going to work with that in order to ensure that the reports can be done.

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And not written over some of the reports that might have already been completed. Then I just want to go through some expectations on visits and reports and timelines and then talk a little bit

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In case we have any systems that are using Cognia. We're previously known as AdvancED. What are some other things that they need to do.

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As well for us because we not only have private systems using Cognia. Now, we also have public systems. Additionally, that I just want to share once again, the zoom support dates and the trainings and then try to see if we can answer as many questions as we can from you.

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So,

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Let me start off with the key saw our process and application. I'm going to try very quickly right here.

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I'm going to bring this down so that I can try to share with you.

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Are KESA application.

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So the ARC has...

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The KESA application is not only where you as a system or as a chair goes in to do your work for KESA, but it is also where our members of the ARC go in to do their work as well and that section, our case application is on the authenticated app. Remember, if you just are right now.

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Being a new chair for some system.

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That you are going in, in that system as if you were

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The systems are working for that system. Okay. Otherwise, you're not going to get access, you won't be able to get access from their information.

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So let me share once they. Are you able... I'm sharing my screen.

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You should be seeing the KESA application right now. Are you seeing that

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Can anybody just

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No I'm not seeing it right now. 
Okay, I'm going

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Okay, now you see me. I'm going to try to share that screen again.

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Go back to share

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Go back to my screen.

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There you go. 
Perfect. Thank you so much. 
Yeah. 
So this is the Kesa application.

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And when you go in. Everyone should already have an initial report.

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And then the system nearly updates we have separated them by year.

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And then the final report, and then the OVT summaries are listed there as well.

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By year for the visiting team.

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Or probably should have gone in. I'm gonna go and so on the accreditation aspect of it.

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When the when the

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When the ARC comes in, they're able to take a look at the systems that are being accredited for next year and they can filter the table by year of accreditation.

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That's not going to work. I will need to just stop the share for a minute because I need to go into the test site so that you can see that properly.

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So while we are well I am trying to do this process.

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Let me just talk a little bit about the next bullet point on that agenda, which was process for systems, who have moved a year.

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If you are a system, who have moved a year in Kesa

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And already completed a

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System report for that year. I don't want you to delete or add on necessarily to that report. What we would like you to do is

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Take that report, download the report on to your desktop added as an artifact.

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And then begin that year's report new so you might have to delete. What was what's currently on the report and then write

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It new stuff, but I don't want you to delete it immediately. I want you to download it first and put it as an artifact into the system that would allow them the team and others to kind of know that you are

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A system that has moved to another.

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Year, so. Okay, I think I got this done this time.

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Very good.

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So I'm going to try to go back now. Is that any questions about that.

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That's really, it's a very kind of simple process there.

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Okay, so here we go.

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So it looks the same. And you're probably saying, well, that's what we were seeing before. Well now each user has their own access

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And so when I went in the first time I went in as an administrator. So it wasn't possible for me to show you exactly the steps that the ARC was going to be going through or what they needed to see. So the ARC

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As they go in as a user, they have access to be able to look as you can see, at any of the reports that they wanted to end up seeing here.

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And so they were able to go back to that accreditation and then, like I said, they can go because these reports would have been in here.

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So for this year. Well, notice it has all of these

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Reports and then some of these say in progress by our cannot started. Remember these systems right now the videos that you're seeing that are

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As they go down, those were all systems that got accredited last year. Unfortunately...

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Not unfortunately. But this system was not up to date until this year. So if they filter their table by the year of accreditation those systems that are up for accreditation will come up in their screen.

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So that they can just see those systems directly. So I can change this number of year.



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And then we would see

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Consequently, by year, which are the ones that are being accredited. And you'll notice that it says not started because the ARC has not started their accreditation process.

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Now, you're not you're not able to see this but I just wanted to make sure that you knew what kind of process, they were going through. So they will go through the ARC reports.

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And on these ARC reports here, they can read if they wanted to.

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Any system that was coming up for accreditation at this point in time. So when we've gone out there and some of our trainings and we have said, well, the OVT reports are there kind of the thing that the ARC is going to be looking at specifically

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This looks pretty similar to the what you have in your own piece, the system report the OVT reports, they'll come over here and they'll know which is the system that is being accredited this year.

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That was one of them. Yeah. And so they can go in and see at this point in time, they can see that your threes and your for OVT summary reports.

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Okay, this is the this is the current year this district is going to be accredited this year. So at the end of the year, then OVT summary of five will show up for them here.

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When they go in... I go back to our accreditation. When they go in

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To look at

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The district's being accredited. And I'm just going to go in, they'll start out through the executive summary.

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And this executive summary falls in line, specifically to that.

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Accreditation criteria that we provided or we have been providing out to the field with our trainings right now.

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And that we will soon have up on the website and I apologize for that. I'm not the most technically savvy person when it comes to putting things up on the website. So it takes me maybe four times longer than the normal person.

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But what they will be doing is they'll come through here. And the first question that they're going to be asked as part of that executive summary which is 10 sections. As you can see, they will be asked all the compliance area in place, they will go and

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They will then add they will either stay assuredly

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Generally or not evident here.

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And then if they needed to add an area for improvement. They would end up doing this at this point in time as well.

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Bless you.

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The compliance area. We are trying this year to give this information directly to the ARC, and we will be informing the systems in early January.

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They're standing in terms of the compliance areas that we are looking at. Compliance. One of the things that are still missing right here.

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This is the definition that we have for areas of improvement. As you can see the information that the ARC will have is not only the date.

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That this report was started, but also the district where they're from, who the superintendent is as we have it in the Kesa application and who they are, what we teach here as and then what area. What does an area for improvement mean in terms of definition.

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Because we gather this information here from the initial report that the systems, fill out. It's really important that we do have the OT chair information and the superintendent information up to date.

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So at the beginning of every year or sometime throughout the year for the OT chair

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That information should be changed in the initial report if it is different than what it currently has and we know that superintendents, you know, they move around.

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Some of them stay in certain districts for one time, but others do take other employment elsewhere. We also know that we have chairs that because of movement. Some of them are superintendents, some of them are principles, etc.

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They also move quite a bit. And sometimes they begin with a school district and might not be able to stay with them for a number of reasons. So we need to know for sure.

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Based on the initial report because, like I said, that information is what is what populates this this piece right here. So,

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That becomes critical also we get all our OVT chair information. And when we send information out when we send information out to the OVT chairs, we end up doing that.

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Using this list. So we get all our information from this list those as well.

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Okay, so the next question is, number two, and those are foundational areas. Again, this button right here of assuredly

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Generally not evident is information that

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That is done by the ARC folks and then they'll add any AFI area that they find their I'm going to try to see

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Going to go back to the ARC report.

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And I'm going to go back to

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Accreditation

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The reason I'm doing that is

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I'll try with Wichita

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reason I'm doing that is that the ARC was playing with this earlier. And so the information in Turner was information that they were just playing with so

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I noticed that I can't move things through so that you can see the whole process because that one was already some kind of submitted temporarily as they practiced with this piece.

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One of the things that is missing here that we hope to add is

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On the accreditation criteria, the ARC requested at their last meeting that the accreditation criteria information for each section. So for this section of compliance.

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That there would be some type of links similar to perhaps the area for improvement definition that they can then see what the criteria for compliance was and they don't have to be switching

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To another paper or to some other document while they are reviewing so that information is going to be accessible to them immediately. Once they do their information, they'll, they'll save the summary. Okay. And then they'll go to next. So these two buttons here for them. One is a

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Lot.

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So what his name. OK. OK. So the one yes good we were going to do the other one that too and I am hearing somebody conversation about being on the webinar and sometimes two o'clock. Yeah. Might want to mute your, your, as I'm hearing your conversation.

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Unless you want us all to hear, then maybe you want to make it juicy. I don't know. I'm just kidding.

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Anyway, so they have two buttons, a safe summary in a statement summary, the safe summary is because they want to get back to it at some point the submit would be when they're

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When they're absolutely finished with it. So then they would go to the next the foundational areas they would add any AFI area, and I'm going to end up showing you how this looks. If they found an area for improvement.

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This is what they see, they were right what area of improvement. It is then they will indicate what their rationale is for why they they label that as an improvement area, then they will talk about what are the tasks that the system needs to do.

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And then this completed by date would be a date that is submitted back to us. Once this information is sent.

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To the system. The system has a chance to update these tasks to indicate when they've completed it or whatever. And then that's the date that would be put back by the system itself that completion date.

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The next area is go one which has relevance and if you remember on the accreditation criteria go one and go to work together because the same questions.

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Were really about both goals areas that you had. So the relevance and it says, choose evidence is again choose one not evident generally or assuredly

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Then that documented that goal when activities and strategies were identified implemented and produced reasonable results. So that is the question that they're answering in terms of

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This goal one but they're reviewing that the information from the system and the ARC based on the accreditation criteria. So then they write their comments here. Again, if they had

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If they have a suggestion for an AFI, they can put it down there and I want you to think of these AFI's as not something necessarily negative. It could be just a general statement.

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And for instance, right now we're seeing that, that there are a lot of systems that have a goal area as relevance.

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But they have no goal statement necessarily written out. So perhaps that added AFI, an area for improvement. Maybe one of the things that they say is, be more specific on your goal statement, what exactly are you trying to do with relevance.

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Okay, so that might be an area for improvement, and it doesn't mean necessarily that it's bad, it's just a suggestion that they're giving okay for that.

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So they would do the same thing in terms of Goal 2 this one is relationship. This school district selected relevance and relationship as their

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Two goal areas. And so that is being brought into the Kesa application. The ARC this piece of the ARC application directly from the initial report as well.

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Okay, so if it has changed.

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They will end up indicating the ARC would probably indicate here relationships is no longer their goal. Their goal is, I don't know rigor based on that, you know, the district chose to change that, that might be something that the ARC of the

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OVT chair and team noted, and so then they noted here so that one this summer report gets put

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To the sent to the state board, they would have that information as well. And of course in each section. The AFI area. It looks exactly the same. And if they wanted to add more than one AFI, they would just continue on adding to that.

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The next question, which is question five

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Evidence on policies, procedures and regulations and the like I said, the accreditation criteria falls exactly the same as with this. So they we use that criteria to determine though right their comments. Maybe give it if I maybe not. I don't know.

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And these. This here is always the same not evident generally or assuredly.

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Question six.

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Talks about gains in meeting the State Board and the vision expectations.

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And so the question that the ARC needs to answer is the evidence admitted to the ARC indicates that the system.

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Blank demonstrates significant gains and meeting the expectations of the Kansas VISION FOR EDUCATION AND STATE BOARD outcomes.

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And so they will choose one of those. And that again is really based on the report, but it's being submitted by the OVT chair.

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As well as information from the system. And I want to reiterate what the Ark will be doing is they'll be looking at those OVT chair reports first and if they need any further information for verification or anything, then they'll go into

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The system reports as well as any

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artifact or anything that might have been submitted. They will be able to see that as well.

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The next one is system stakeholders relevant to each part of the case of process. We're not evident generally or assuredly involved during the accreditation cycle.

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The eighth question is system leadership was responsive to the outside visitation team throughout the accreditation cycle and they will choose one of those

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Then the ninth. One is that the system has followed the KESA process with a, with an expected level of fidelity and then the steps for the case of process, a part of that accreditation criteria.

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And then the last section number 10 is their recommendation, so they will choose the recommendation of either accredited conditionally accredited or not accredited they would mark that down and they have to provide a justification for that recommendation.

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Okay, so once they provide the justification for that recommendation, then they would submit their summary.

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And at this point, I'm going to see if I can go back to

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I'm going to end up showing

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I probably should not, but

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Okay. So once that is done and they submit their report. Okay.

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It will end up showing in progress bar. Well, hold on 2020. It shows submitted by the ARC, or it shows in progress by the aARC.

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Okay not started would be that they have not even looked at it. So, because I opened up the Wichita one, even though I don't have anything in there. It says in progress, because it was opened these two as test items that they did. They submitted it, so what happens at this point in time.

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Once they submit that

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All of the areas for improvement will show up on the executive summary and

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I need to log out.

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And I'm going to


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So once they submitted.

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I will get a notification. We have an accreditation email.

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Dedicated accreditation email where anyone from the field can ask questions.

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And it comes to that accreditation.

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Folder. It's a way of trying to avoid too many emails that might be important. You know, being inter mingled with other emails that I might get so if you have anything that you need an answer really quick on

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That's a good place to end up saying, sending that information. I try to keep up to date with my emails, but sometimes that doesn't always work the way I would like to. But once that is done I as part of the accreditation piece.

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I come into the maintenance section.

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I look at accreditation.

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And again I too filter it by 2020

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And please do not, this is not true on any of these here.

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But it shows that it's submitted and I can go ahead and take a look. It says edit summary, I will take a look at a

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At a PDF of the report, and then hopefully what my intent on this edit summary is, if nothing needs to be sent back

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Okay, so I'm looking at this, if nothing needs. If I don't need to change anything but

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It doesn't show it there, but

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And then say, oh, there's some errors in there. So what I want to do right now is I want to send it back to the ARC.

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Because they need to correct some things. Or I could go ahead and then just look at the report and then make corrections if there's typos or any of those kind of things.

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One of the things that I try to make sure of is that when the executive summary goes to the state board. There are no typos. And we're all professional. But I also know, even with myself that

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Second, look at some documentation is always helpful because we right and then a lot of times we don't see you know

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We can add some names here to sit Matt and saying, here's some technical assistance, you might want to contact this person and that would be the report for that.

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But this process of maintenance in OVT summary reports is still kind of or still flushing out all of those pieces.

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One of the areas that is still not totally completed. Here is the the process and the piece where I then submit it.

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To the state board and say okay this is ready to go to the state board. Once I can do that, then there's a whole process that

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Our system will work on on doing all these reports in one fashion so that then they can be included on a state board, agenda item and submitted to the state board. So I'm going to stop right there.

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And see if you have any questions.

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Are there any questions, I'm trying to see

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But I can see right now. Whoops.

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Okay, so there are no. Oh, yeah. Hold on.

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So no questions about any of that, huh.

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Did I just overwhelm you.

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So one of the questions that we have is our year three schools required to conduct a mid year

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Review the answer to that is yes, but not the mid year review is not an isolated.

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Piece. It is really a

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The it's really part of the visit, and on the visit of the mid year review.

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It has a section that actually says mid year review for the OVT. It's not that the team comes in, in January and then comes again in April. It's one visit at the end of the year and we call it a mid year review because it's the third year of the cycle.

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So you have visit would occur. Still, and at least what we're saying is we would like we would like you you to have your visits for this year.

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At least by the end of April, May, you're already kind of closing down school and all those other stuff. So it's kind of hard. We did have some schools that have their visits back in May.

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Last year, but if you are a system that's being accredited this year, then we would please ask that you have your visits no later than

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The end of March. The reason for that is that the the ARC meets for the first time in April and then they will be meeting again in June, if they have to. They have some dates for may

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But the June date they usually reserved for any systems that they still had some questions about, and so they need to re-review or they they wanted more information. And so we give a month to sort of gather that information for them but

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In June, a lot of the review that ends up occurring at that point in time, are some of the private systems that we try to do those separately.

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We had a question about being lost with regard to the media review.

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The question that had came up previously was whether or not we need it to have a mid year review sometime in January. And so what I was trying to explain, was that the media review is not necessarily a real mid

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Year review and then you had your actual visit than later on that that mid year review was just in reference to you're in the third year of the cycle.

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And therefore you should be looking at things in terms of where you, where you have been

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What kind of changes and where you're going. It's a good point. It's a good point in time to get take stock of what's been happening.

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In more than just a year by year basis. Remember, as an improvement process, you are constantly looking yearly in terms of what things are working, what things are not working, what is your data telling you

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Do we continue on this path, do we not, but in the third year, you want to do a little bit more thorough review to really end up saying, Okay, here's where we've been. And this is where we're really going with all of this.

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Sometimes within that mid year review, we find that two years of trying to implement something that is not working.

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And maybe the team decides at that point in time. The, the system decides. We've tried this, but we really don't think

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That it's going to work, or it's going to really have an impact. So maybe at that point in time, you decide to shift whatever implementation, you have to something else at that point. Remember you don't want shifting of of things.

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Every year because improvement. You'll never know if improvement is happening if you're constantly shifting. Okay.

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In redesigned terms, I think they would end up calling it to pivot, you know, are things being successful. Do you need to pivot. Do you need to make a change.

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I just in KESA I just call it shifting

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So with that, then let me just talk to you a little bit about expectations.

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Visits reports and timelines and I made a mention of this previously visits, preferably no later than the end of April, except if you're a system that's been accredited this year.

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We would like you to finish that visit by the end of March at the latest in order to be able to have your reports, here's the reason. The other reason for that is not only about

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The ARC coming in an April, but we're supposed to at least review and give you some time. The ARK once they do their review. They need to give you some time to respond to their review whether or not you will be asked whether or not you are

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Accredited conditionally accredited not accredited whatever the accreditation statuses you're going to be asked to respond. Are you okay with that recommendation.

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And so we need to hear back from you. We can't move that recommendation forward to the state board until we hear from you.

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You always have an opportunity to appeal that decision if you wanted to. And that's part of the process. Maybe at our next meeting. I'll try to show you those pieces of the system that they're being finalized right now. So you would have an opportunity to then do that.

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And if you appeal. Then it goes back to the arc and the ARC takes a look at it and says, because you might appeal, saying, Oh, hold on a second, you

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Indicated that we didn't have enough evidence for whatever it might be. But we do it just was written on the reports and here it is. Okay. And at that point in time you put something up in the artifact section and then the the ARC would be able to have that information for you.

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Could look at it and then they could go ahead and make a change in the recommendation that they have done.

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Yes, sorry interrupt no absolutely take it. I was taking a phone call. When you said started that conversation. Did you say only if a system was being accredited this year that you wanted the visit by April?

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Is it. Well, if the system is being a credit this, this year we would like that visit by no later than the end of March. 
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I want to remind everyone, I can't stress this enough, the system report should be completed prior to the OVT visit

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We have been looking at some of the

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Reports right now in the system. I've been going through some of those. Some of you might have gotten an email from me. Some of you might

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Might be getting one soon.

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We have been looking at for consistency.

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Making sure all the reports are in right now. I've been focusing on those systems that are up for accreditation right now to make sure that all the documentation is in that is needed.

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We don't want the ARC to come in and then say, well, we don't have an OVT chair report for this system or

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We don't have a system report that we can look at for next year. And there was supposed to have one so

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Everything is up to date. So I've been looking at that information and then I'll be I've sent some emails and I'll be sending some others.

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As I as I get to those I'm hoping to complete that by the end of December.

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So that systems will be able to

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make corrections or whatever is needed.

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So make sure that you as a system you have your OVT system summary our system update ready for your OVT prior to that visit

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The OVT chair and the system should be collaborating on that agenda. This is important.

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Especially if the OVT chair and the team members have a time to really go through and have some discussion about that report.

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It might be that you find as an OVT chair and as a team members that you want to take a look at some specific things or you want to make sure that some questions are answered.

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Maybe they're doing some really cool stuff that you really want to go and have an opportunity to see what's going on. So you'll want to then plan that agenda together so that the system really doesn't have surprises about you're wanting to see certain things.

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Also as collaborating with the OVT chair and the members.

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Make sure that all OVT members, not only the chair has a good understanding of that report that you will be completing for this year. Remember OVT members do not have access to the KESA application. Therefore, they don't have access through the application.

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Of on any of these reports. So if the OVT members need a copy of what the system wrote is going to be up to the system to make sure that their members really get a copy of that and you

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As an OBT chair. If you're an OVT chair, then what you want to do is just maybe ask the question, have you seen it, and if not, then you have access, you can definitely send it to them immediately or have them contact their system to get a copy of that.

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The other reason why you want to be able to have this collaboration kind of with your team members a little bit prior, even if it's some time before the actual visit starts like early that day. If you don't have time to do that in between is to be able to also

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Talk about the writing of the report, they're like five or six areas that you're taking a look at as a team to write about.

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Even though everybody everybody should be familiar with it, and everybody should be out there kind of looking at

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The information that's being given the information that you're seeing the discussions that are being had in terms of what evidence or you're able to write about.

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In terms of what you're seeing and what is being stipulated by by the visit.

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The visit should not be in no way I was thinking about this the other day, because I was thinking, how did we get into this dog and pony show

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In the past, and I think a lot of that dog and pony show was because even though there were some reports that were written, somehow we felt that we needed to regurgitate the information again through some type of presentation.

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I really don't think that's really necessary.

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The discussion that you have in an in an OVT visit should really be a down to earth dialogue that you're having about what is going on.

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That's one of the reasons. Also, and what's being successful and how it's being successful. It is one of the reasons why we we have been doing a lot of trainings this year the around the whole issue of evaluation of the improvement process.

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So that those discussions that are much more meaningful can take place rather than a presentation of a report that if you got it before you already know about. Okay.

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Any questions about that.

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Public or private, and you're our president for this zoom meeting please know that this year we need from you. Your every institution every year report.

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system. If you're a public system you are to send that report or private system you're supposed to send that report to us here as well as to Nancy Boltz.

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Advanced well Cognia advanced ED did a workshop this past November in Kansas City and presented the Google Drive and document that they have developed

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Or that was developed with our with the information that that I provided them.

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On what were those questions and things that needed to be answered for us. Those questions are essential, because one of the things that we have discovered is that

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The report that is submitted as your final report from your visit through Cognia does not necessarily report on the questions on that EIEY report. So I just need to make sure that you complete that and that that is submitted to me. If you are a

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That is being accredited this year, you should have already received from me an email. If I have any of that documentation missing.

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This year, we should have two copies of that documentation, one for the '18 '19 school year and one for the '19 '20 school year. The '19 '20 school year, you still have some time to send it to me, but

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We still need it before your documentation and your information goes to the ARC.

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The other thing that systems using Cognia need to do is go into the KESA application and complete the final report.

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So the so you were supposed to complete the initial report, the final report and then every year, just like system just like regular systems had a report to do

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Within the KESA application. These at these Cognia andaved ED schools or systems had the EIEY report that needed to become completed yearly

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The information if the document was submitted to Nancy

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I should already have that report from her. What I've been advising many of the systems is that when they send it or they indicate that it is completed.

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Nancy will let me know from the Google document that it has been completed and I am going to be having access to that Google Drive. So I will know who has it or not. But if you submit it then Nancy gives me that information. If you have not

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If you, if I get in contact with you. That's because I have not heard from Nancy and my email to you will also have be a CC to Nancy social now this is Nancy Boltz.

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The last piece that I wanted to be able to give you or talk to you about right now.

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Our zoom meetings and our trainings.

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And this I heard. I've been trying to update this as we go. This one is not completely updated because we have finished our system trainings.

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Up to date.

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We have zoom meetings January 14 we have a zoom meeting now with us from 130 to 232 times are the same, only in February that we change it from a Tuesday to a Wednesday.

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So our next meeting will be January 14 these system trainings have been completed. We're adding another one in Topeka.

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And it will be a little bit longer session. These sessions have been from 9 to 12 but one of the things that we're doing right now with this KESA system training on the evaluation piece and I will

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I will just state I've really heard some very positive.

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feedback about these

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They have been very well received.

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Unfortunately for us. We haven't had as much participation as I would have liked to and yet this system training is probably one of the more important ones that we have been providing out there.

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Because it's not a logistical necessarily training. It's more a process, what should be done this particular system training was on how your how your to be evaluating your the success of your improvement plan and process and

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I've got an edit it has been a really good training, like I said, we're going to add another one in February. Right now, we're thinking about February 18th

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Or the last week in February, that's going to be solidified by the end of this week and then we'll send some information out.

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Along with registration, because it is for Topeka. We're going to keep it at the same $25 price.

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If you are interested in attending please know that this training is not for just one person in your team. You should come with a team of members to it.

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And also bring your plan and any data or information that you have, because we're going to go through that.

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Those sections of that evaluation process with your data for you to take a look at it yourselves and begin asking the questions, the other things that we're right now working with is the sample that was provided and

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trainings that we have been given was one that was taken from some type of research that was done, not necessarily in Topeka but elsewhere. So we are currently developing

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A KESA goals specific case ago and we're looking at that KESA goal in in the same terminology and way that we have been doing that training. So I think it's going to be even more beneficial.

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We'll be sending that information out shortly. The other piece that I just want to remind you of is also that

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Our chair trainings. The first three chair trainings have taken place. We come, we will continue our chair trainings.

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In January, we will end on February 11 with a chair training in Topeka, and that chair training is also focused on the evaluation process, but rather than from a system perspective, it's an evaluation process from

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A chairs perspective in terms of how do I ask the questions. What do I end up asking how can I help a system goes through and evaluate their own process. So we take it from that perspective. The other thing that we just added at our last training and clearwater that we didn't do in Hutchinson

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But it was just because of timing, but we finished our accreditation criteria. So our clearwater training had the benefit of really taking a look at the accreditation criteria.

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along with that whole evaluation process and what can be done in terms of reading reports and maybe writing rewriting some of the reports. So that's kind of the focus of the of that training the chair training.

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Is just for the chair team members are more than welcome to attend the more than they know about what's going on, the better it is. But the expectation is not that if you have a visiting team member that comes with you.

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To that training. It's not that you will, that we expect them to be a

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Trainer or chair, I should say.

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But at least it would get the same information at this point in time, I think part of what we're thinking of for next year is that rather than doing some just isolated training for chairs. I think we want to bring a chair and their team members together.

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In order to have more fruitful discussions around some of the reports and that way.

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When we're looking at writing reports and reviewing reports, rather than looking at reports that we

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That that the teams can actually take care, take a look at their own reports that they're writing be familiar with the system. And then, and then

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The take a practice on their reports for changing and editing and reviewing more effectively for them so

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That is what I have at this point in time.

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It is just about 2:30 I'm surprised. Okay.

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Any questions, any comments, you've, you all have been pretty silent, this time around. Usually I get a lot of chat information and I have not this time so you can unmute and ask your question or you can just write it through a chat.

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Thank you for being here as well. Max.

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I will stay on the line for another 10 or so minutes but if you don't have any questions you can just sign off, thank you for being here. We really appreciate your time.

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And feel free to send me a comment or an email or whatever. If you find these helpful or not helpful or what do you think

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What are some of the topics that you would like to hear of so that I can be sure that we're providing you with what you need and what you want. So thank you very much and enjoy your holidays.