By Rue Huereca-Retana, KSDE accreditation and design team

First virtual KESA monthly update for 2025-26 school year set for Aug. 11 

The KSDE accreditation and design team will host the first KESA virtual monthly update for the 2025-26 school year from 10:30-11:15 a.m., on Monday, Aug. 11. Join the meeting here. A recording of the presentation and content shared by Dr. Jay Scott will be posted to the KESA webpage following the meeting.  

Contact Rue.Huereca-Retana@ksde.gov with questions.  

KESA fall 2025 in-person information sessions begin next week 

As the school year approaches, the KSDE Accreditation and Design team invites district/system staff to the upcoming Kansas Education Systems Accreditation (KESA) information sessions.   

If you are new to Kansas, new to your position, or couldn’t make one of the KESA Information sessions this past spring, these sessions are made for you. Here are the topics for each of these sessions: 

• KESA 2.0 review 
• 2025-26 School Improvement Days 
• KESA implementation standards 
• KESA graduation standards 
• KESA compliance 

Since these sessions are a repeat of this past spring’s KESA information sessions, it’s not necessary to attend if you were able to be at one in April.  For those wanting to attend, you can choose either the morning session, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. or the afternoon session, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. No registration required.  These sessions are set up for one or two people from your KESA district leadership team (DLT) to attend.  

The following are the dates of the in-person-only KESA information sessions:  

• Aug. 11 - Greenbush North (Lawrence) 
• Aug. 13 - ESSDACK (Hutchinson) 
• Aug. 14 - Smoky Hill (Salina) 
• Aug. 29 - Orion (Clearwater) 
• Sept. 2 - Southwest Plains (Sublette) 
• Sept. 3 - Northwest Kansas (Oakley) 
• Sept. 5 - Greenbush South (Girard) 

Jay Scott and Myron Melton of the Accreditation and Design team will be facilitating these learning sessions.  

Contact Rue Huereca-Retanta, Rue.Huereca-Retana@ksde.gov, with questions.