Presenters and Session Descriptions

2017 OAEP Spring Conference Presenters and Session Descriptions

NEW EMIS Coordinator The session is intended for those with 3 or fewer years of experience. Bring your lap top, if possible, to get the most from this experience (and believe us, it will be an 'experience'). Enjoy 2 hours of EMIS for Newbies - More fun than should be legal.... If you plan to attend the NEW EMIS Coordinator session on Sunday please click on this link to provide the speakers with some additional information and to ensure that they have materials for everyone. This is not required but will be extremely helpful for the presenters. https://goo.gl/forms/Sge0bUQpjTCuWH2D2

Jennifer Schmidt has been working in EMIS since the last century. She remembers when error reports were measured by the box of tractor-fed paper upon which they were printed; a short-lived February Count Week period; a pre-school experience report that was a long as pre- school children are tall; reporting marks for high school courses; and having most of Chapter 2 memorized. Outside EMIS, Jennifer enjoys beekeeping and her eight grandchildren (she also enjoys her kids and husband, but they are not nearly as much fun as the grands.) Lisa Ekleberry has been working in EMIS since it started. She has had the pleasure of watching this “EMIS Beast” grow from a simple system to a more complicated animal over the years. Working with the districts to teach and troubleshoot has been a great experience and challenge that one will never forget. Outside the EMIS world, Lisa enjoys cooking, baking, gardening and keeping up with two teenage sons and a wonderful husband.

FY17 EMIS Update and Reminders David Ehle Director, Office of Data Quality and Governance

Career Tech LRC Information Emily Passias Geoff Grove is the lead Data Manager for the Office of Career Technical Education at the Ohio Department of Education. He has been with ODE since 2009 and has been in the Office of Career Tech since 2015.

Graduation Pathways Brian will provide an overview of the graduation pathways and options as the class of 2018 prepares to enter their senior year. Topics will include the graduation options, curriculum choice, honors diploma and the seal of biliteracy.

Brian Roget is an associate director in the office of curriculum and assessment at the Ohio Department of Education. Brian manages the work of the curriculum staff including Graduation requirements, Ohio’s learning standards and model curriculum, professional learning, instructional resources and support of Ohio’s new state tests. He been at the Ohio Department of Education for 16 years serving as a mathematics consultant, assistant director of mathematics, assistant director of assessment and current position. Prior to coming to the Ohio Department of Education Brian Roget taught mathematics (7th and 8th grade mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II and AP Calculus) for 12.5 years in the Dayton Public Schools.

Reporting Staff Data This session discusses how EMIS staff data are used and by whom, with emphasis on reporting data elements that are gaining new uses at the local, state and federal level. Mary Rose is a Data Administration Manager serving the Center for the Teaching Profession at the Ohio Department of Education. Mary’s prior work includes research on health care systems using very large data sets. Her current work with the Department includes providing quality assurance, technical assistance, and policy-related guidance on staff data in EMIS and educator licensure data in CORE, for districts and other stakeholders. She also provides data support for agency programs such as the Ohio Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems, roster verification and teacher-level value-added reports, and state and local planning for Equitable Access to Excellent Educators for all students.

Advanced Microsoft Excel Creating an FTE Detail Summary Report This session is for advanced Excel users. This class will cover how to have a quick method for making a summary of the FTE Detail Report. You will learn how to generate a summary showing within each FTE Fund Pattern Code and FTE Incl Code the summed totals for all your data. You will be learning to use functions such as IF, LEFT, RIGHT, TRIM, and SUMIFS. “You never need to re-type data, you can always change it to the format you want.”

Bob Howard, (BobExcel, LLC, Professional Development Consultant) Bob has been teaching computer classes with word processing, database, and spreadsheet applications since 1984. He provides professional development for Microsoft Excel throughout the state through his consultant company called BobExcel, LLC. In the previous years, Bob has created Excel solutions for the State of Ohio Department of Education, Washington D.C. Federal Department of Education, META Solutions, as well as several school districts around the State. For the last 15 years, school Treasurers, CPA’s, OASBO, OEDSA, EMIS coordinators, payroll and data personnel from several counties in Ohio have attended his Excel and data management workshops. Bob was a math and computer science teacher for 27 years in the Columbus Public Schools. Bob has a BS and an MA degree from The Ohio State University in Mathematics Education. He has served as a featured speaker, done presentations in several states and internationally, demonstrating some of spreadsheet skills and solutions achieved by his students while teaching in Columbus. After leaving Columbus Public Schools in 1999, Bob joined META Solutions full time in professional development. Bob left META as a full time employee in 2011 and is a consultant for META-Solutions as well as other school districts and business. In Bob’s private business, he has served as a consultant and created office solutions (Lotus 123, Excel) for several projects. Some of these include Spreadsheet solution designs and training for Dugan & Myers Construction (One Columbus Building - downtown Columbus), Ameritech, and E-Z-GO Textron, Golf Car Division. Bob has created several Excel solution designs for School Treasurers around the State of Ohio. Both Bob, as an instructor, and his Excel classes are approved by the State of Ohio Accountancy Board of CPA’s. CPA’s who attend the Excel classes can get CPE credits. Every district who has sent someone to the Excel classes, has later sent more employees to the Excel classes.

Pivot Tables Tutorial This session is a hands on tutorial on how to efficiently structure data using pivot tables. We will create a pivot table, drill down to student level, and pivot within the table using various data element filters. We will also discuss potential uses of pivot tables to organize several data types and target inconsistencies. Laurel Lemmer started as the EMIS Coordinator for Springfield-Clark County JVS in February 2016. While new to EMIS and the world of education, Laurel has been working with the reporting, analyzing, and extrapolating large volume data for over 15 years. Laurel has been Excel Certified since 2001 and is married and have two young daughters.

EMIS Overview This session gives an overview of all of the types of data reported through EMIS and how it all works together. We will talk about all types, district, student, staff and financial data. Mary Myers works at Licking Area Computer Association supporting both Fiscal and EMIS applications. She has 29 years of experience in education, with the last 25 as EMIS support. Because her career started in the Treasurer’s office, first doing payroll then as a school Treasurer, she has an understanding of what is required for staff reporting and works to bridge the gap between the student and staff reporting responsibilities.

Infinite Campus Gifted Tracking This session will cover how gifted students are entered, tracked and state reported through Infinite Campus Kim Adams Kim Adams has 8 years of school district experience and has been with the ITC for 10 years in Student & EMIS support. She is one of only two Campus Support Training Specialists outside of the Infinite Campus Headquarters who is certified to train other Campus Trainers. Kim utilizes her in-depth knowledge of Infinite Campus and Ohio reporting requirements to help school district personnel realize their data roles in EMIS.

Excel Tips for EMIS If you are planning on attending this session you should download your WKC report on your laptop. Michaelene Vincent has worked in the EMIS world for over 16 years; first in a school district, then for a group of community schools and finally at LACA. She retired in January but is happy to share some Excel functions she has used over the years to help make better and easier use of the reports.

EMIS Year End Updates for StudentInformation We will be sharing new features to assist with completing your EMIS reporting. We have some exciting new features that we will share as well as some new Ad Hoc Reports to provide additional information. Debbie Barbee is employed by the MCOECN. She is the Business Analyst for EMIS in StudentInformation. She worked with EMIS since the very beginning. She enjoys the challenge of EMIS reporting requirements and providing solutions in StudentInformation for completing them. She lives in Dayton with her husband and she enjoys spending time with her growing number of grandchildren. PowerSchool EMIS Update Jennifer Schmidt has been working in EMIS since the last century. She remembers when error reports were measured by the box of tractor-fed paper upon which they were printed; a short-lived February Count Week period; a pre-school experience report that was a long as pre- school children are tall; reporting marks for high school courses; and having most of Chapter 2 memorized. Outside EMIS, Jennifer enjoys beekeeping and her eight grandchildren (she also enjoys her kids and husband, but they are not nearly as much fun as the grands.)

Infinite Campus and the GE Extract This session will be an overview of the special ed fields in Campus that extract on the GE record. Kim Rhoads Atwell has 19 years district experience as an EMIS & Data Processing Coordinator/Accounting Assistant and 11 years ITC experience. She achieved the status of Certified EMIS Professional in 2004 & Master Certified EMIS Professional in 2011 and is now the Director of Operations for Lake Geauga Computer Association. eSchoolPlus EMIS Update Hear about the latest compliance updates and plan for future updates in eSchoolPLUS. Justin Schnalzer has worked for PowerSchool (previously SunGard K-12) as a software developer on the regulatory team since 2012. Prior to that, Justin spend a brief time handling regulatory reporting for a Pennsylvania school district. Justin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Bloomsburg University. When not working, Justin enjoys spending time with his wife and dog, as well as doing anything related to cars.

ESSA Implementation Updates This session will provide information on the key ESSA implementation provisions required for the 2017-18 school year. The presentation will highlight the new fiscal and programmatic changes for the key title programs, review nonpublic equitable services requirements, highlight new allowable uses of funds, and provide an overview of some of the key state options for the law. Jeremy Marks became the director of the Office of Federal Programs at the Ohio Department of Education in January 2014 after being named interim director in August 2013. Mr. Marks has over 20 years of state and federal legislative and policy experience and has been a key staff member for the Ohio Department of Education since January 2001. Prior to being named director, Mr. Marks served 10 years as the Federal Legislative Liaison at the Ohio Department of Education developing and advocating the federal legislative recommendations to Congress and federal stakeholders. In addition to managing the agency’s federal education advocacy, Mr. Marks spearheaded the agency’s implementation of one-time federal funds, administered the agency’s Controlling Board requests, coordinated the development of federal applications and guidance, and ran the state’s participation in the U.S. Green Ribbon schools competition. Prior to service at the Ohio Department of Education, Mr. Marks served as a legislative liaison for the Ohio Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs, Senior Legislative Aide to the Chairman of the Transportation and Public Safety Committee at the Ohio House of Representatives and a Legislative Service Commission Fellow. Prep for Success In 2016, schools and districts were graded for the first time on the Prepared for Success component. This session will include a “deep dive” into the data, and business rules used in the calculation and attendees will leave with a strong understanding of how the grades are determined. Marianne Mottley began her career more than 28 years ago as a legislative aide in the Ohio Senate. During her 18 year tenure in the legislature, she served three state senators, all of whom were policy leaders in the education arena. Just over ten years ago, Marianne transitioned to the Office of Accountability at the Ohio Department of Education, serving first as a policy aide, then as assistant director and now as director. During that time she worked on numerous changes to the report card including working to implement the version used today.

CTE for Newbies 0-3 Years This session is geared to 'New-to CTE' EMIS coordinators with 0-3 years of experience. We'll step through the key points of accurately reporting of CTE EMIS data. Also, an excel workbook was created as a reference tool. The workbook contains one tab per CTE EMIS data-related Manifest and includes data elements, things to keep in mind, online resources, etc. Cathy Glatz and Rhonda Palmer bring 36 years combined Career Tech experience. They started their EMIS journey working at Career Tech Centers as EMIS Coordinators. Cathy and Rhonda currently provide Career Tech EMIS support to CTCs and traditional district as well as EMIS services to contracted entities through META Solutions.

Attendance, Tuition, and Custody Game Show Specifically designed for newer EMIS coordinators, this presentation will make you a contestant in a game show designed to help you learn the legal background underlying school attendance and tuition and how it relates to custody and residence. You can't win if you don't play! Hollie Reedy Hollie Reedy has been with the firm of Ennis Britton, LPA for three years- the firm represents over 200 school districts in Ohio on all aspects of labor and employment and general school law, and has litigated one of the top cases in Ohio on residence fraud and tuition. Prior to that, she served as general counsel for the Ohio School Boards Association. She began her law career in juvenile and domestic relations court, though, representing the best interests of abused, neglected and dependent children in Franklin County. It was there she learned all about custody and became interested in educational neglect and attendance and tuition. Hollie has been practicing law since 1995, right after the OJ Simpson case was lost by the prosecution. Hannah Reichle is a proud product of Vinton County Local Schools and Hocking College, where she graduated with an associate's degree. When she is not assisting members of the firm and solving problems, she is a competitive equestrienne, showing in the discipline of Western dressage.

Transgender Students and EMIS Transgender Students and EMIS: How does the changing landscape of dealing with transgender students impact our EMIS world? Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman is an attorney with the firm. Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman worked in marketing and represented United Kingdom higher education institutions throughout the United States. Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman practices in several areas of law concerning school districts, including labor and employment issues, special education, student discipline, workers’ compensation matters, and general school law practice. TGRG and K-3 Literacy In this presentation, staff from the Ohio Department of Education will provide information on the reporting of data associated with the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, how that data is utilized on the State Report Card, and how to check the quality of this data at the local level. Participants will leave this session with resources on how the Third Grade Reading Guarantee program and reporting requirements are used to calculate the K-3 Literacy and Third Grade Reading Guarantee measures on the Ohio Report Card.

Letitia Kotila is a Data Administration Manager serving the Office of Accountability at the Ohio Department of Education. Letitia’s prior work studying parental involvement and child development highlighted the critical importance of education in building strong families and well-adjusted children. Her current work with the Department includes ensuring the accuracy of data used for the report card and other Department publications, providing technical assistance and policy-related guidance to districts, and providing data-related support to other Department programs (School Safety, Community Connectors, Straight A). Beth Hess is the Third Grade Reading Guarantee Administrator at the Ohio Department of Education. Beth is a former reading teacher in a large urban district. Her work focuses on providing technical assistance in the implementation of the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, developing early literacy resources to support Ohio’s Early Literacy Plan, and engaging with regional support teams in the implementation of Ohio’s Early Literacy Pilot. Melissa Hennon began her work for the state in 1989. After working on a number of different projects at other agencies, she joined the Ohio Department of Education as an EMIS Data Administration Manager in October, 2012. Melissa’s first Department project involved working with the TGRG Program Office to develop and document EMIS reporting requirements. Melissa oversees EMIS documentation, training, and support, which includes coordination of the EMIS Alliance Support Grant. She also continues to work closely with the TGRG Program Office and the Office of Accountability to provide TGRG and K-3 Literacy guidance for schools.

Are you ready for an audit? This session will prepare EMIS Coordinators for an audit by reviewing a variety of questions and documents that auditors will be requesting. Melanie Kwast has worked for the Auditor of State’s Office for over 6 years, and is currently an Audit Manager in the Central Region. Melanie has a great deal of experience auditing local governments such as school districts, cities, counties, and townships. Melanie graduated from Olivet Nazarene University in May 2009 with degrees in Accounting and Business Administration. She earned her CPA certification in 2013. Melanie, her husband Jason, and daughter, Ellianna reside in Marion, Ohio.

Secure Data Center Create custom reports in Using the Secure Data Center where the journey will begin with SDC access, available SDC reports, SDC processes: create, analyze, drill, filters, customize and toolbar features. Sandy Sparr, EMIS Coordinator, has provided services at NCOCC for 24 years.

Finding the Funny in Change Whether it’s going green or the myriad of new rules that govern the industry, we are constantly reacting to a new playing field. From reform to the new industry rules and regulations that are being developed, professionals are routinely having to reassess and re-evaluate their practices. And all of this change causes fear, tension and miscommunications! This is Jan’s most popular keynote, because she combines her hilarious comedy with PRACTICAL tips on dealing with change through using humor. Jan will show you how to: • diffuse tension instantly, • kick off tough conversations • facilitate communications . . . all by using humor that you, yourself can do. And she’ll also give you the latest research between laughter and health – yes they’re actually studying this stuff! Customized for your event and industry this keynote will have attendees walk away laughing AND learning as they discover the steps they can take to conquer, and even embrace, change.

For professional speaker and comedienne Jan McInnis, life is full of “finding the funny.” She – and the audiences who continually rate her programs “hilarious” – wouldn’t have it any other way. Inspired by fifteen years as a marketing director in the 9 to 5 world, Jan has cornered the association and corporate convention market. And over the past 22+ years on the full-time speaking circuit, she has spoken at hundreds of conferences, employee retreats and banquets held by such groups as Anthem Blue-Cross, the American Heart Association, the Federal Reserve Banks, and the Mayo Clinic. Jan was featured in the “Wall Street Journal” as one of the top convention comedians whose material is clean and in the Washington Post for her clean comedy writing. Learning doesn’t have to be boring! Jan has a knack for humorous analysis, which enables her to keep her audiences laughing, not just with a comedy show, but also with some of her keynotes such as “Finding the Funny in Change.” In this keynote she shows people how to use humor to handle change. Jan has also sold comedy material to just about everyone. . . from the Tonight Show monologue, to greeting cards, hundreds of radio stations and even guests on the “Jerry Springer Show” (yes, some of it is staged), and she is author of 2 books - “Finding the Funny Fast: How to Create Quick Humor to Connect with Clients, Coworkers and Crowds.” And “Convention Comedian: Stories and Wisdom From Two Decades of Chicken Dinners and Comedy Clubs” Born in D.C., Jan was in charge of the “Joke of the Day” for her junior high school lunch table. Not surprisingly, she majored in communications at Virginia Tech, where she was a disk jockey for the local radio station.

ESSA and Homeless This presentation is from the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth’s (NAEHCY) McKinney-Vento 101 presentation which incorporates the ESSA amendments into a basic overview of the education subtitle of the McKinney-Vento Act, and selected parts of Title I, Part A. Susannah Wayland, the State of Ohio Homeless Education Coordinator will present the law and entertain questions and concerns regarding implementation. Susannah Wayland serves as the State Homeless Education Coordinator for Ohio. She works to ensure that all districts in the state of Ohio understand and implement the McKinney-Vento law that supports children, youth and families that are in transitional situations. FTE Reconciliation, Funding, and Tuition Students Reconciliation with the “District” ADM using the FTE Detail Report along with a district’s SFPR Jack Nairus is in his 20th year as an area coordinator in northeast Ohio. Prior to becoming an area coordinator, Jack was a teacher, principal, and Central Office administrator in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Migrant Student Identification/Reporting & How MSIX Can Help Participants will learn how to properly identify & document migrant children who may be enrolled in their districts on their EMIS database. The verification process working with OMEC to correct the migrant data that is being reported in EMIS. She will explain the role of the Center in the statewide identification and recruitment of all migrant students as required under Title I - Part C, Education of Migratory Children. Also explain how our recruiters start the homeless identification process to help districts to determine if the migrant families are homeless. The presenter will also explain how to get access to the National Migrant Database to check migrant status. Gloria Altamirano is the State Transfer Records Coordinator for the Ohio Migrant Education Center and has worked for the Center for the last 16 years. She is also the RIF Coordinator and Ohio’s Data Administrator and State Trainer for the National Migrant Student Information exchange (MSIX) database. Malena Gutierrez is the State ID&R Coordinator for OMEC and has worked for the Center for the last 10 years. She supervises and trains the recruiters who are certified to identify the migrant students for the state of Ohio.

ODDEX Upcoming Application Changes During this session each module of ODDEX will be reviewed with a focus on recent application updates. Teresa Williams SSDT Special Projects Manager: Teresa is currently serving as Project Manager of EMIS services provided by the SSDT and works closely with ODE on a number of EMIS specific tasks. She has been with the SSDT providing EMIS support at the state level since FY08. Prior to that time, Teresa served as an USPS Systems/Analyst with the SSDT for 15 years.

Staff Data Pivot Tables This session will teach how to recreate staff reports that districts previously had to verify staff data using the data collector files of CI-Staff Demographics and CK-Staff Employment using vlookup and pivot tables. This session is hands-on using your own device. Mary Myers works at Licking Area Computer Association supporting both Fiscal and EMIS applications. She has 29 years of experience in education, with the last 25 as EMIS support. Because her career started in the Treasurer’s office, first doing payroll then as a school Treasurer, she has an understanding of what is required for staff reporting and works to bridge the gap between the student and staff reporting responsibilities.

FY18 Changes and Beyond David Ehle Director, Office of Data Quality and Governance