Greenbush Service Center Snapshot | 2022-2023

S e r v i c e C e n t e r S n a p s h o t

What is Greenbush?

Greenbush serves learners of all ages by working with schools, communities, and agencies statewide to ensure equal educational opportunities for all.

Greenbush was established in 1976 to help schools accomplish more by working together. Formed as Interlocal No. 609 and legally known as Southeast Kansas Education Service Center, Greenbush has all the rights and privileges of a school district except the power to levy taxes.

Greenbush offers a wide variety of services, with partners paying only for what they need. This entrepreneurial approach has led to more than 40 years of growth and innovation. Greenbush team members operate out of campuses in Girard, Lawrence, and Topeka, in addition to smaller offices located throughout Kansas.

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What is LTI?

The Learning Tree Institute at Greenbush (LTI) is an educational foundation established in 1989 as a supporting organization of the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center – Greenbush. LTI is a 501(c)(3) corporation, and its not-for-profit status serves as the vehicle for philanthropic giving by individuals, business partners, and others who share our passion for providing equal educational opportunities for all kids. LTI also serves as a mechanism to manage limited scope contracts.

LTI is governed by a seven-member board appointed annually by the board of directors of the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center. Board members play a critical role in guiding the strategic direction of the foundation.

Since 1989, LTI has supported capital improvements on the main campus, enrichment programs for kids, and new programs and initiatives. In 2020, the Board of Trustees formalized a Strategic Investment process to support growth of people, programs, and ideas. Board members established this process to support Greenbush in filling gaps and accelerating innovative opportunities for children, families, and educators.

Denise Grasso, President

Dave DeMoss, Vice President

Mike Bodensteiner

Ruth Duling

Jim Mengarelli

Mark Scheibe

Tony Stonerock

Helping communities through program evaluation, data collection and analysis, strategic planning, and grant development and management. Center of Community Supports is Greenbush's new umbrella that brings together staff with a broad base of experience to assist non-profits, governmental entities, and community groups as they develop and implement projects that impact kids and families. Creating this umbrella has allowed us to gain synergy and move out into communities more.

The Services The Services

Administrative Services

The Administrative Services Consortium provides direct support to building leaders, district leaders, and leadership teams. The goal of this program is to build the capacity of leaders to more effectively meet the needs of students, staff, families, and the school communities they serve. Weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly forums provide participants with timely and relevant resources, materials, and opportunities for leadership development.

Additionally, communication templates are provided that help to address and explain new and existing initiatives and topics occurring locally, regionally, across Kansas, and nationally.

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Greenbush H

Greenbush Health offers fully insured group health, life, dental, and vision benefits for eligible employees of our insured groups. Insured groups may access coverage through Greenbush Health as a participating member of the Greenbush Health Trust. Non-Trust groups can access voluntary life, dental and vision benefits. The Greenbush Health Trust is a fully insured Municipal Group Trust. The Greenbush Health Trust offers a quad option health plan with one of the options being a QHDP with an optional HSA, all currently through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, plus Sun Life - voluntary life, Delta Dental - dental, and VSP - vision benefits.

Greenbush Virtual Academy (GVA)

Greenbush Virtual Academy brings the online ing experience and expertise of Greenbush to local ol districts for a variety of online educational rams. From K-12 through adult diploma completion, program incorporates proven virtual learning tices and meets state accreditations. This is more learning online - it's learning to use online education e best possible way for both students and districts.

Parents as Teachers (PAT)

Purchasing Coop

For more than 45 years, The Purchasing Cooperativ municipalities, and other public organizations save tim Nearly 1,000 unique entities in Kansas and adjoining contract in the most recent three-year period. Gree spending categories, all awarded through a competit Greenbush cooperative contract is more efficient an cumbersome and time-consuming work of managing

Parents as Teachers is a districtprovided early learning program from the Center of Community Supports that provides practical and timely information to ALL families, including

ool Improvement Services districts ve year-round support in the areas rriculum, instruction, assessment, accreditation through customized essional learning plans and a variety

Special Educa

Special Education: Gifted & Special Day Programs

Greenbush believes that all students can and will learn to be productive and responsible citizens regardless of their unique exceptionalities. The students served at Greenbush Special Day Programs face challenges preventing them from being successful in the public school setting. Greenbush has three special day school locations serving its member districts: Project PLUS, East Central Kansas Academy (ECKA), Special Purpose School (SPS) at Parson State Hospital and Training Center.

sh Connects is a tele-practice program to provide specialized services, including onal and speech-language therapies, via ve video conferencing. The goal of sh Connects is to increase student access y therapy services. Greenbush Connects s with districts and special education throughout Kansas to meet IDEA ents in the provision of services when s are unavailable due to local shortages.

Special Education for Infants and Toddlers

Also known as tiny-k, the Infant Toddler programs are family-centered early intervention programs with the primary purpose of helping families whose young children need early developmental heir third birthday. Greenbush health and well-being

The People The People

The Good People The Good People of Greenbush of Greenbush

Officially one year old in August 2022, The Good People of Greenbush podcast has already boasted some pretty big Greenbush names. As Coordinator of Instructional Resources, Ronnie Williams, states, "Greenbush serves learners of all ages by working with schools, communities, and agencies statewide to ensure equal education opportunities for all. This podcast will focus on the best part of our organization...the people! With nearly 500 employees, we have a lot of good people and this will be a way for us to shed some light on the amazing things that they are doing!"

Over the course of the year Ronnie has spoken with a wide variety of Greenbush's familyranging from Jennifer Taylor from the Specialized Learning Services team, Jim Dillon and Brett Fenton of Teacher Mentoring fame, Director of Greenbush Virtual Academy, Don Grosdidier, and many more! In December of 2021, Ronnie met with Danny Anderson, a former member of the Greenbush Board who has been serving since 2018 and who recently had his last official meeting December 15, 2021.

Danny and Ronnie's conversation spanned across decades - from Danny's education in the 1940s in his hometown of Riverton, to his years

teaching science at the same high school he graduated from, to his work with Greenbush both as a member of our many consortiums to his tenure as a board member. Though he himself has done such great work, Danny stays humble saying, "[Greenbush is] a leader and our legislators look to them as a guide for many things going on. I'm awestruck by what they've done and understand [that this company] is a tremendously powerful organization for education."

With Ronnie Williams

RW: Looking back on your time on the Greenbush board and thinking about some challenging and rewarding times you ' ve hadwhenever you look back on your times as a service member on the Greenbush board, what are some things that stick out to you?

DA: I've been very appreciative to work with the board and the directors because they bend over backwards trying to be accommodating in what they do, but I was awestruck by just how big Greenbush is. They have got their hands in so many different things that are going on in education. I am awestruck by the fact that Greenbush has over the last 30 years become such a prominent grouping of consortiums in the state of Kansas and outside Kansas. I can't begin to even fathom all of the different things they do. Whether it's helping children with reading disabilities or supplementing education in our prisons so that those incarcerated have a chance when they get back out - it's not just a small organization. Greenbush people are there to help. That's what it's all about.

RW: Yeah, it is. That's what it's all about and you started school in 1949 at Riverton. There's been a couple of years between then and now so I'm curious. If I was to bestow upon you a magic wand and you could change one thing about education, what would that one thing be?

DA: That is a tough question because there are so many things that I would like to see changed. What I would like to see most is a level playing field. In other words, that doesn't mean that they don't have to learn the same thing because that's not what education is all about - we learn

different things, but having the opportunity to learn is the same they all need to have. I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about opportunities. What I would like to see is mom and dad at home telling them that education is a way of life that will improve your life and not just a college degree, I'm talking about technical colleges as well. Everything you have is a gift, let's use it.

RW: I love it. Like you said, everything that you have is a gift, but leveling that playing field is so crucial. If all of those kids could go home to that safe environment, they could come to school feeling positive about things and that parents would push the importance of education in one ' s life, then I think that would be something that can really improve our educational system and our society.

DA: I didn't come from an ordinary family. Neither my mom or dad had a formal education, but do you know what they made us kids cherish most in life? Getting an education. In our family there were 13 of us - four girls and nine boysand, out of us, six of us ended up with a college degree and advanced degrees and the others specialized in technical areas. My dad encouraged us that education is something you can take with you forever. My mother had to struggle very hard to get her education - what she did get - so it was something we learned at a very early age to cherish. I've loved [education] ever since.

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OUR EMPLOYEES

467 Employees

June 2022

The average age of Greenbush employees is 45 years of age. The age range of employees is from 15-76 years of age.

Greenbush employs nearly 470 employees who reside throughout the state of Kansas and beyond. An additional 23 employees reside outside of Kansas. A majority of our employees hold specialized licensure or certifications pertaining to their role in serving early learners and students, providing specialized services, or maintaining i

6 of 10 Greenbush employees hold specialized licensure or certification

The The

Organization Organization

AADC - Adult Diploma Completion

AEPA - Association of Educational Purchasing

KKCTC - Kansas Communities That Care

KSDE - Kansas State Department of Education

BB3 - Birth to Three Infant Toddler Services

BTR - Babble. Talk. Read.

CCCS - Center of Community Supports

CIA - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

CRC - Camp and Retreat Center

CTE - Career and Technical Education

LTI - Learning Tree Institute at Greenbush

ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages

MMACS - Management Advisory Computer Systems

GVA

GBOL

PAT

SEL