Wolf River Leadership
April 6, 2011
Brad Neuenswander, Deputy Commissioner
Kansas State Department of Education
Base State Aid Per Pupil
2010-11
2011-12
Governor
3,937
3,780
Senate
3,937
3,786
House
3,937
3,762
$50,000,000
$99-115,000,000
Reduction
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STATE AID REDUCTIONS/UNDERFUNDING
2009-10 School Year
State Aid
General State Aid
BSAPP $4,400 to $4,012
Reduction
$
241,288,471
Supplemental General State Aid
37,816,280
Capital Outlay
25,600,000
Professional Development
1,750,000
Teacher Mentoring
200,000
Discretionary Grants
85,000
National Board Certification
240,000
Special Education
TOTAL
4,000,000
$
310,979,751
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General Fund State Aid
$4,400 - $4,012 = $388 reduction to BSAPP
- OR –
$241,288,000
$4,012 - $3,780 = $232 reduction to BSAPP
- OR –
$154,512,000
$75 reduction in 2010-11 and $157 reduction in 2011-12
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Base State Aid Per Pupil
School Year
BSAPP
1992-93
3,600
1993-94
3,600
1994-95
3,600
1995-96
3,626
1996-97
3,648
1997-98
3,670
1998-99
3,720
1999-00
3,770
2000-01
3,820
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Base State Aid Per Pupil
School Year
2001-02
BSAPP
3,870
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
3,863
3,863
3,863
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
4,257*
4,316
4,374
2008-09
2009-10
4,400
4,012
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Base State Aid Per Pupil
* Approximately $244 of the increase
was a result of raising the BSAPP and
lowering the enrollment weighting
which resulted in no increased
spending authority.
$ 3,780 - $244 = $3,536
(below the 1992 level for BSAPP)
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Special Education
• For 2010-11, an increase in state aid of $21.2
million in order to meet Federal Maintenance
of Effort laws.
• For 2011-12, an increase of $60 million in
state aid to replace a loss of $56 million of
ARRA funds.
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Cash Balances: Why are they needed?
• Bond & Interest: you have to have the cash in the
bank on July 1 to make your Fall payments.
• Capital Outlay: preparing for large purchases and
projects.
• Special Education: schools do not receive their first
state aid payment until October 15, so you have to
survive 4 months with your balance.
• Food Service: funded by students and federal
free/reduced lunch program, so you have to survive
up to 3 months with your balance.
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If your only tool is a hammer,
everything looks like nails.
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Legislative Progress
• HB 2269: Local Foundation. Does nothing but
change the formula.
• SB 11: Lowers the transportation 10 mile Rule
to 2.5 miles.
• Suitability: Re-defines what a suitable
education is.
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A Crisis does not necessarily
build Character,
but it certainly does reveal it.
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Keeping Your Focus
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People are not self-centered
on purpose; it’s just in the
nature of humans to think of
their own interests first.
It takes training and intentions
to place others first.
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Agency Initiatives
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Multi Tier System of Supports (MTSS)
Common Core Standards
Re-write Quality Performance Accreditation (QPA)
Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA), known as NCLB
Develop a Growth Model at State, District, School
and Student level.
Sunflower Literacy Project
Provide Technical Assistance to Schools
Collaborative Workspace
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A great company is much more
likely to die of indigestion from
too much opportunity than
starvation from too little. The
challenge becomes not
opportunity creation, but
opportunity selection.
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“If you’ve taught it five times the
same way and they still don’t get it,
who’s not learning?”
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Questions?
• Does your School Board, as a whole, have a
personality?
• Does your School District have a personality?
• What is the culture/atmosphere of your
district?
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Cultural Leaders
Whether or not leaders are
perceptive enough to recognize it,
organizations have cultures, which take
root, grow, evolve, and silently control
the attitudes and behaviors of
organizational members even when,
and perhaps especially when, no one
pays them any special attention.
- William Spady
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ThingsEveryone
Everybody
Needs
Things
Needs
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UnderstandAbout
AboutPeople:
People:
Understand
1. Everybody Wants to be Somebody – There isn’t a
person in the world who doesn’t have the desire
to be someone, to have significance. Even the
least ambitious and unassuming person wants to
be regarded highly by others.
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2. Nobody Cares How Much You Know Until He
Knows How Much You Care – The moment that
people know that you care about them, the way
they feel about you changes. Showing others
that you care isn’t always easy. Your greatest
times and fondest memories will come because
of people, but so will your more difficult, hurting
and tragic times. People are your greatest assets
and your greatest liabilities. The challenge is to
keep caring about them no matter what.
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Good to Great – Jim Collins
Question:
“What work makes you feel compelled to try to
create greatness?”
If you have to ask the question, “Why should we
try to make it great? Isn’t success enough?”
then you’re probably engaged in the wrong line
of work.
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Technical vs. Cultural
Too often, the technical side of
leadership eclipses available time and
willingness for its much-needed cultural
aspects. As a result schools become
sterile, incapable of touching the hearts
of students and teachers, or securing the
trust and confidence of parents and local
residents. - Terrance Deal, Shaping School Culture
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Handout
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The Future of Schools
• Students deserve the best schools we can
give them – schools full of heart, soul, and
ample opportunities to learn and grow.
• Reforms that bring new technologies or
higher standards won’t succeed without
being embedded in supportive, spirit-filled
cultures. Schools won’t become what
students deserve until cultural patterns and
ways are shaped to support learning.
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“The only thing worse than
training someone and losing
them is not training them
and keeping them.”
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Pathways to Successful Culture
• The way leaders spend their time, what
they attend to, and how they direct their
efforts all serve to communicate the
school’s values and model its principles.
• One element of the school’s purpose is to
make school a place that is fun and offers
children special chances to enrich their
lives.
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Leaders Encourage Others
The reality is that difficulties
seldom defeat people; lack of
faith in themselves usually
does it.
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Always remember that your goal is
not to get people to think more
highly of you. It’s to get them to
think more highly of themselves.
Have faith in them, and they will
begin to do exactly that.
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If You Panic, They all Panic
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A highly effective school leader
can have a dramatic influence on
the overall academic achievement
of students.
Marzano, Waters, & McNulty, 2005
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Today’s leaders are expected to
involve and empower their people,
to be visible to their employees
and constituents, to act with
integrity, and to be accountable for
their organization’s performance
and results. -William Spady
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True Leadership
• “Doing the right thing isn’t always easy – in fact
sometimes it’s real hard – but just remember that
doing the right thing is always right.”
• “Everything you do matters because your team is
watching… and depending on you to do the right
thing.”
• “Guard your integrity as if it’s your most precious
leadership possession, because that is what it is.”
• “You are the Chief Bucket-Filler, and the best way
to fill buckets is with excellent communication.”
• MTSS will not be successful without Leadership,
and a culture to support it.
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“Brick walls were not built to stop us,
they were built to see how
determined we are.”
-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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Why it Matters!!
A poor quality
product or service
can be recycled,
but a young
person who does
not learn or who
drops out is hard
to salvagea lost treasure.
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Make it Enjoyable
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A Ray of Light
• Laboratory Rat #1: Placed in a jar of water in
total darkness to see how long it would swim for
survival. Lasted a little more than 3 minutes.
• Laboratory Rat #2: Placed in the same jar of
water with just a ray of light, and it kept
swimming for over thirty-six hours.
• Because the rat could see, it continued to have
hope.
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Final
Questions
&
Closing
Comments
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Do You Have Diamonds?
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“We all live under the same sky, but
we don’t all have the same horizon.”
Make it your goal to help others see
beyond today and their current
circumstances and dream big dreams.
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