This blended, hybrid training will include in-person and online meetings along with a Canvas mini-course focused on Federal Grants - Program and Finance Management. This course includes a book study of Federal Education Grants Management: What Administrators Need to Know by L. M. Manasevit, T. W. Kesslar, and S. A. Spillan of Brustein & Manasevit from LRP Publications along with custom developed content and guest speakers for each mini-series. As part of the Canvas mini-course, participants will be provided with a pacing guide, special resources, and interactive assignments related to each chapter plus an archive of the meeting presentation. One copy of the book for this book study has been mailed to ESSER grant contacts for Region 13 LEAs. If you would like to procure any additional copies for your LEA, please email the POC.
Each mini-series contains three monthly meeting dates around a central topic or theme. Each mini-series will have its own eCampus registration that includes the three meeting dates as shown below. This is a list of the comprehensive meeting dates for this book study.
Title/Topics:
Budgeting, Forecasting, and Staff Analysis
Dates:
Mon, 9/25/23
Tues, 10/31/23
Thurs, 11/16/23
Additional Topics:
Kick-Off, Introductions, and the Basics
Book Chapters:
Introduction, 1, and 2
Title/Topics:
Grant Financial Management and GL Accounting
Dates:
Thurs, 12/7/23
Tues, 1/9/24
Thurs, 2/1/24
Additional Topics:
Grant applications and end-to-end processes
Book Chapters:
Part II, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8
Title/Topics:
Preparing for End of Grant and Audits
Dates:
Tues, 3/5/24
Thurs, 4/4/24
Thurs, 5/2/24
Additional Topics:
TEA’s perspective, ESSER audit survivors, and Auditors with their clients
Book Chapters:
5, 11, 12, and 14
Title/Topics:
SNS Methodologies and MOE
Dates:
Thurs, 6/6/24
Tues, 7/23/24
Thurs, 8/1/24
Additional Topics:
Mitigating the impact of ESSER on these & End Celebration during last meeting
Book Chapters:
9 and 10
Participants may register for all 4 mini-series simultaneously or pick and choose which mini-series best match their interests and needs. Course credit will be achieved incrementally at 8 CPE per meeting. Of course, the recommendation is to attend all 4 mini-series and all 12 of the monthly meetings to receive the most benefit from the entire book study.
We will conduct these deep-dive working sessions with our guest facilitator, Rebecca Estrada, from TASBO, a previous CFO for Lackland ISD for 19 years, who has held numerous positions and awards within TASBO throughout her career. She regularly presents throughout the state on both finance topics and ESSER topics and she has also served as a facilitator for the ESC R13 principal and superintendent certification programs. The custom content for these meetings will be interactive and co-developed to contain the latest, up-to-date information from TEA plus other TASBO courses combined to target the topics listed.
Recommendation for who should attend from your LEA: We recommend you have a team attendance of the key stakeholders involved in the financial and grant management requirements. This could include your federal program/grant manager/director, your business manager or CFO, your accounting clerk or the person responsible for your drawdown requests, your procurement or purchasing staff, the person responsible for your general ledger and/or payroll, some HR personnel and/or a superintendent responsible for approving and authorizing these activities.
Please have your computer available so that you can follow along with the links, use the Canvas course, and go to all required resources throughout our interactions.
Participants will have the opportunity to:
- Increase their understanding on federal grants and program management
- Increase their exposure to the critical collaboration necessary between program staff and finance/business staff plus other stakeholders
- Understand ways to reduce risk associated with federal grants
- Explore the book Federal Education Grants Management: What Administrators Need to Know by L. M. Manasevit, T. W. Kesslar, and S. A. Spillan of Brustein & Manasevit from LRP Publications
- Collaborate and discuss federal grant management and finance topics with other like districts and other personnel with similar job responsibilities
This course number is to register for in-person attendance only. If you would like to register to attend virtually via Zoom, please go to course number FA2351105 to register.