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<strong>2023</strong> <strong>KASEA</strong><br />
WINTER CONFERENCE<br />
February 21-22, <strong>2023</strong><br />
Bishop Professional Development Center<br />
Topeka, KS
THANK YOU TO OUR<br />
EVENT SPONSORS!<br />
PLATINUM LEVEL<br />
DIAMOND LEVEL<br />
GOLD LEVEL<br />
Special thanks to Greenbush &<br />
School Specialty for sponsoring<br />
our Tuesday evening social, and<br />
Lumen Touch for sponsoring our<br />
Monday evening Membership<br />
Meeting!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS<br />
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21<br />
7:30-8:00 - Registration, Vendor Showcase, Light Breakfast/Snacks<br />
8:00-8:20 - <strong>Conference</strong> Welcome and Logistics - Ann Matthews, <strong>KASEA</strong> Executive Director<br />
Platinum Sponsor Presentation - PCG<br />
8:20 - 8:30 - Introductions - Doug Anderson, <strong>KASEA</strong> President<br />
Diamond Sponsor Presentation - eLuma<br />
8:35-8:50 - Welcome - Bert Moore, State Director of Special Education<br />
8:50-10:15 - Keynote - Dr. David Bateman<br />
10:15-10:25 -Logistics - Lena Kisner, <strong>KASEA</strong> President Elect<br />
Diamond Sponsor Presentation - Presence Learning<br />
10:25-10:45 - Vendor Showcase/Break<br />
10:45-11:30 - Breakout Sessions 1<br />
11:30-12:15 - Lunch (Provided by Greg’s Blowin’ Smoke BBQ)<br />
12:15-12:30 - Vendor Showcase/Break<br />
12:30-1:15 - Breakout Sessions 2<br />
1:15-1:20 - Transition time<br />
1:20-2:05 - Breakout Sessions 3<br />
2:05-2:20 - Vendor Showcase/Break<br />
2:20-3:05 - Breakout Sessions 4<br />
3:05-3:30 - Vendor Showcase/Break<br />
3:30 - Tentative Guest Speaker<br />
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22<br />
7:30-8:00 - Registration, Vendors, Light Breakfast included<br />
8:00-8:30 - <strong>Conference</strong> Begins<br />
Partner organizations (KASB, USA)<br />
8:30-9:15 - <strong>KASEA</strong> Legislative Advocacy<br />
9:15-9:30 - Vendors/Break<br />
9:30-11:00 - Special Education Legal Updates - Mark Ward & Brian Dempsey<br />
11:00-11:15 - Vendor Showcase/Break<br />
11:15-12:00 - Special Education Finance - Craig Neuenswander<br />
12:00 - <strong>Conference</strong> Ends
OPENING KEYNOTE<br />
DR. DAVID BATEMAN<br />
David F. Bateman, Ph.D., is a Principal Researcher at the American Institutes for<br />
Research. He is a former due process hearing officer for Pennsylvania for hundreds of<br />
hearings. He uses his knowledge of litigation relating to special education to assist<br />
school districts in providing appropriate supports for students with disabilities and to<br />
prevent and to recover from due process hearings. He has been a classroom teacher of<br />
students with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, intellectual disability, and<br />
hearing impairments. Dr. Bateman earned a Ph.D. in special education from the<br />
University of Kansas. He has recently co-authored the following books: A Principal’s<br />
Guide to Special Education, A Teacher’s Guide to Special Education, Charting the Course:<br />
Special Education in Charter Schools, Special Education Leadership: Building Effective<br />
<strong>Program</strong>ming in Schools, Current Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education, and A School<br />
Board Members Guide to Special Education.
BREAKOUT SESSION 1 10:45-11:30<br />
The Grant and Madison rooms are available all day for small group conversations/teamwork.<br />
IEP'S: GREATER DETAIL - BIG ROOM<br />
(200)<br />
Dr. David Bateman<br />
Repeat Session<br />
<br />
Dr. Bateman will dive deeper into the topic of IEPs in this session.<br />
EARLY CHILDHOOD OVERVIEW -<br />
SUMNER (56)<br />
Julie Rand, Kansas ECSE Coordinator; Amanda Peterson, Director, Kansas Early Childhood; Gay<br />
Younkin, TASN Technical Assistance Team<br />
This session will include a description of Early Childhood services in Kansas, including an<br />
introduction to APR Indicators 6,7 and 12, categorical aid; specifically as it is impacted by LRE,<br />
and the relationship between Early Childhood outcomes and student achievement in the early<br />
grades.<br />
ADULT JAIL SELF-MONITORING -<br />
GARFIELD (50)<br />
Doug Tressler, Assistant Director, TASN General Supervision Timely and Accurate Data Project;<br />
<br />
Stacie Martin, Consultant, Special Education and Title Services, KSDE<br />
This session will provide an overview of the Adult Jail Self-Monitoring tool with an explanation<br />
of the expected timelines for completion. Question and answer time will be provided for<br />
questions on the self-assessment as well as a description of how compliance with the tool will be<br />
determined and the technical assistance that will be provided if an LEA is found to be noncompliant.
BREAKOUT SESSION 2 12:30-1:15<br />
BASICS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION<br />
BUDGET & FINANCE - BIG ROOM A<br />
(70)<br />
Lena Kisner, Executive Director, Reno County Educational Cooperative RCEC; Larry Clark,<br />
TASN Technical Assistance Team<br />
This session will focus on the basics of special education finance. We will discuss how to<br />
understand budgets and provide foundational understanding of creating budgets. We will<br />
provide an overview of special education funding and review important resources on the KSDE<br />
website.<br />
<br />
Materials: Device to access the KSDE website.<br />
IEP'S: GREATER DETAIL - BIG ROOM B<br />
(70)<br />
Dr. David Bateman<br />
Repeat Session<br />
<br />
Dr. Bateman will dive deeper into the topic of IEPs in this session.
BREAKOUT SESSION 2 12:30-1:15<br />
PARAS: SPECIALLY DESIGNED<br />
INSTRUCTION IN THE INCLUSIVE<br />
SETTING - BIG ROOM C (70)<br />
Rebekah Helget, Director of Special Education, The Learning Cooperative of North Central<br />
Kansas; Amy Haussler, Director of Special Education, Holton Special Education Cooperative<br />
With para shortages and budget constraints, there is no better time than now to get to the heart<br />
of what specially designed instruction (SDI) looks like for paras in the inclusive setting. Inclusion<br />
utilizes a significant amount of human resources. When SDI is not utilized, it has significant<br />
impacts on resources, but most importantly, it’s harmful to kids!<br />
EARLY CHILDHOOD: WHAT DOES MY<br />
DATA MEAN? UNDERSTANDING<br />
INDICATORS 6 & 7 - SUMNER (56)<br />
Julie Rand, ECSE Coordinator; Gay Younkin TASN Technical Assistance Team<br />
This session will be a deeper dive into the Early Childhood indicators that involve LRE and<br />
positive OWS outcomes. You will learn how the data is reported, how your data can inform your<br />
decisions.<br />
<br />
<br />
Materials:<br />
<br />
Your MIS clerk should run the most recent data set on 2 reports to bring with you: The<br />
Entry/Exit Report (from OWS system) and the Indicator 6 Report from SPED PRo. You may also<br />
need your data dictionary to use the setting codes specific for Early Childhood and your Early<br />
Childhood Report from the APR report even though that data is older.
BREAKOUT SESSION 3 1:20-2:05<br />
BUDGETING FOR COOPERATIVES<br />
AND INTERLOCALS - BIG ROOM A (70)<br />
Lena Kisner, Executive Director, Reno County Educational Cooperative RCEC; Larry Clark,<br />
TASN Technical Assistance Team<br />
This session will focus on understanding the budgeting process for cooperatives and interlocals.<br />
We will discuss ideas regarding how to calculate district contributions for the <strong>2023</strong>-2024 school<br />
year including where you are at in the budgeting process.<br />
<br />
<br />
Materials: Bring your interlocal or coop budget<br />
WHO KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO<br />
HAVE SO MANY HR DUTIES AS A<br />
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR? - BIG<br />
ROOM B (70)<br />
Katie Wolfgang, Director of Human Resources, Wamego Public Schools<br />
Repeat Session<br />
<br />
Join me as I break down complex HR items, into bite size pieces, that you can apply to your<br />
position as a school administrator. Topics will include personnel management, employee<br />
reprimands, terminations, evaluations, documentation, FMLA and ADA processes, and worker's<br />
compensation. If these dry topics aren't enough to convince you to join this session, then my<br />
stellar personality and sense of humor ought to push you right over the edge! Take a seat, and<br />
just try not to enjoy this session.
BREAKOUT SESSION 3 1:20-2:05<br />
USING AN IMPROVEMENT APPROACH<br />
TO ADDRESS STAFFING SHORTAGES -<br />
BIG ROOM C (70)<br />
Elena Lincoln, Senior Technical Assistance Consultant with American Institutes for Research<br />
(AIR)<br />
Repeat Session<br />
<br />
It’s been three years since you’ve filled all your paraeducator positions. You’ve just heard from<br />
one of your special education teachers that they are resigning at the end of the year. You just<br />
lost a speech pathologist because his spouse was transferred out of state for work. Every special<br />
education leader has faced staffing challenges at one time (or many). But, the challenges of<br />
staffing shortages are about more than filling positions.<br />
<br />
In this session, we’ll apply a continuous improvement mindset to addressing staffing shortages,<br />
taking a look at the data underlying the staffing challenges in your system and talking through<br />
practical steps to filling the gaps.<br />
MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT: MAKING<br />
THE MOST OF EXCEPTIONS - SUMNER<br />
(56)<br />
Christy Weiler, Coordinator, Special Education and Title Services, KSDE<br />
Materials: Staff lists for 2021-22 and 2022- 23, vacancies that you know of for <strong>2023</strong>-24. Ideas<br />
of large purchases you might claim as exemptions, 2022-23 budgets to consider different ways<br />
of using SPED funds for the last quarter of this year.
BREAKOUT SESSION 3 1:20-2:05<br />
EDUCATE KANSAS: RECRUITMENT -<br />
GARFIELD (50)<br />
Cris Seidel, <strong>Program</strong> Director, Educate Kansas<br />
Educate Kansas is a KSDE project supporting Educator recruitment and retention for the state<br />
of Kansas. The project has a special focus on diversity, equity and inclusion as well as the<br />
recruitment of educators for hard to fill positions such as special education.<br />
<br />
<br />
Districts and Interlocals are supported through a strategic marketing campaign involving the<br />
development of infographics, recruitment cards and a promotional video. These can be<br />
embedded onto the district landing page on the Educate Kansas website as well as through the<br />
district or interlocal's individual platforms. Finally, Educate Kansas offers professional learning<br />
around the "art of recruiting" The Recruitment Toolkit.<br />
ORGANIZING & TRACKING SPECIAL<br />
EDUCATION BUDGETS - BELVOIR (30)<br />
Lee Hanson, Director of Special Services, DeSoto Public Schools<br />
This session will focus on strategies when organizing and tracking short and long term<br />
expenditures related to special education budgets at the district level. Participants will have an<br />
opportunity to review and discuss the benefits of these tools to help drive the decision-making<br />
process in management of resources.<br />
<br />
Materials: Bring your special education budget.
BREAKOUT SESSION 3 1:20-2:05<br />
ROUND TABLE 1: SUPPORTING<br />
TEACHERS - CURTIS (30)<br />
Rebekah Helget, Director of Special Education, The Learning Cooperative of North Central<br />
Kansas; Amy Haussler, Director of Special Education, Holton Special Education<br />
Cooperative; Melissa Strathman, Executive Director of Special Education, McPherson County<br />
Special Education Coop; Bryan Candea-Kromm, Targeted Improvement Coordinator, Topeka<br />
Public Schools<br />
This session will give participants a chance to share and learn from each other. Topics will<br />
include supports for new and waiver teachers and mentoring strategies.<br />
ROUND TABLE 2: EARLY CHILDHOOD<br />
LRE - PIERCE (24)<br />
Bryan Wilson, Director, Maize Special Education Coop<br />
This session will give participants a chance to share and learn from each other. Topics will<br />
include providing services to preschool students in general education settings, providing related<br />
services in “push in” models, and other strategies that impact the LRE calculation.
BREAKOUT SESSION 4 2:20-3:05<br />
SPECIAL EDUCATION STRUCTURES -<br />
BIG ROOM C (70)<br />
Doug Tressler, Assistant Director, TASN General Supervision Timely and Accurate Data Project<br />
This session will provide an overview of current special education structures in Kansas (Stand<br />
alone, Cooperative, Interlocal) and how to explain that structure to your board and<br />
stakeholders. Examples of how budget changes impact local structures and why they vary<br />
between systems will be discussed.<br />
WHO KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO<br />
HAVE SO MANY HR DUTIES AS A<br />
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR? - BIG<br />
ROOM B (70)<br />
Katie Wolfgang, Director of Human Resources, Wamego Public Schools<br />
Repeat Session<br />
<br />
Join me as I break down complex HR items, into bite size pieces, that you can apply to your<br />
position as a school administrator. Topics will include personnel management, employee<br />
reprimands, terminations, evaluations, documentation, FMLA and ADA processes, and worker's<br />
compensation. If these dry topics aren't enough to convince you to join this session, then my<br />
stellar personality and sense of humor ought to push you right over the edge! Take a seat, and<br />
just try not to enjoy this session.
BREAKOUT SESSION 4 2:20-3:05<br />
USING AN IMPROVEMENT APPROACH<br />
TO ADDRESS STAFFING SHORTAGES -<br />
BIG ROOM A (70)<br />
Elena Lincoln, Senior Technical Assistance Consultant with American Institutes for Research<br />
(AIR)<br />
Repeat Session<br />
<br />
It’s been three years since you’ve filled all your paraeducator positions. You’ve just heard from<br />
one of your special education teachers that they are resigning at the end of the year. You just<br />
lost a speech pathologist because his spouse was transferred out of state for work. Every special<br />
education leader has faced staffing challenges at one time (or many). But, the challenges of<br />
staffing shortages are about more than filling positions.<br />
<br />
In this session, we’ll apply a continuous improvement mindset to addressing staffing shortages,<br />
taking a look at the data underlying the staffing challenges in your system and talking through<br />
practical steps to filling the gaps.<br />
EDUCATE KANSAS: RETENTION -<br />
GARFIELD (50)<br />
Cris Seidel, <strong>Program</strong> Director, Educate Kansas<br />
Educate Kansas is a KSDE project supporting Educator recruitment and retention for the state<br />
of Kansas. The project has a special focus on diversity, equity and inclusion as well as the<br />
recruitment of educators for hard to fill positions such as special education.<br />
<br />
<br />
Educate Kansas currently offers support to school districts and interlocals through the process<br />
of analyzing data around retention through a research based survey developed in partnership<br />
with K-State. Additionally, districts and interlocals can access professional learning<br />
opportunities around teacher retention through this project.
BREAKOUT SESSION 4 2:20-3:05<br />
ROUND TABLE 3: ABSORBING ESSER<br />
- SUMNER (56)<br />
Lee Hanson, Director of Special Services, DeSoto Public Schools<br />
This session will give participants a chance to share and learn from each other. Topics will<br />
include budgeting and staffing decisions in the context of the upcoming reduction in federal<br />
funds.<br />
ROUND TABLE 4: VIRTUAL SERVICES<br />
- BELVOIR (30)<br />
April Hilyard, Director Butler County Special Education Interlocal<br />
This session will give participants a chance to share and learn from each other. Topics will<br />
include providing services to students in virtual settings.<br />
ROUND TABLE 5: LEGISLATIVE<br />
DISCUSSION - CURTIS (30)<br />
Patty Carter, Chair, <strong>KASEA</strong> Legislative Committee<br />
<strong>KASEA</strong> needs your support with our legislators! Come learn and share how you can be involved;<br />
either a little, or a lot! We will write a personal note to your legislator at the table.
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2024 <strong>KASEA</strong> WINTER<br />
CONFERENCE<br />
SAVE THE DATE!<br />
February 20-21, 2024<br />
Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview<br />
Wichita, KS<br />
THANK YOU TO OUR CONFERENCE<br />
PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS!<br />
Doug Anderson<br />
Doug Tressler<br />
Vicki Vossler<br />
Rebekah Helget<br />
Amy Haussler<br />
Kathy Kersenbrock-Ostmeyer<br />
Patty Carter<br />
Lena Kisner<br />
Cris Seidel<br />
April Hilyard<br />
Angie Karraker<br />
Jason Wright