Michigan Department of Education IDEA Partnership

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Michigan Department of Education IDEA Partnership

• Welcome

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Todays session objectives

• Clarify Michigan IDEA Partnership purpose and
  intended outcomes
• Identify adult learning implications of the IDEA
  reauthorization
• Deepen understanding of PD Vision and Standards
• Explore the aspects of an adult learning system
  that foster enhanced implementation of IDEA

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Purpose of Michigans IDEA Partnership Grant

• Help transform personnel development (PD) in
  Michigan to support implementation of IDEA and
  improve child/student achievement.
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• In your IDEA partnership role
• How are you interpreting the partnership purpose?
• In your PD role, how do you see the outcomes of
  the partnership addressing your organizations
  needs and concerns?

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Core Work
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Core Work

• This grant offers the opportunity to link the
  varied adult learning efforts into a more
  comprehensive statewide system

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PARTNERSHIP OUTCOMES
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PARTNERSHIP OUTCOMES
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Measurable Outcomes

• Building a learning community with established
  commitments to
• Purposeful integration of adult learning,
• Clarified communication structures and practices
  to impact statewide implementation of the IDEA

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Adult Learning

• Learning among adults
• that supports learning
• among infants through young adults
• with delays and disabilities
• using sustained, capacity building formats
• includes PD (professional/personnel
  development), training

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Learning Community Rubric

• Partners help transform adult learning in
  Michigan to support implementation of IDEA and
  improve child/student achievement by
• Developing relationships
• Engaging in group processes and
• Completing tasks.

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Learning Community Norms

• Represent the views of constituent communities
• Engage in open and focused dialogue
• Honor diversity (of persons, partners,
  viewpoints, ideas)
• Protect the focus (target the task silence cell
  phones avoid sidebar conversations)
• Actively contribute to individual and collective
  learning
• Actively learn
• Actively teach
• Contribute to the design and ownership of our
  partnership work

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IDEA Partnership Meetings

• October 29 Establish learning community
  connections around adult learning
• January 25 Explore the aspects of an adult
  learning system that foster enhanced
  implementation of IDEA
• May 12 Identify accountability/evaluation
  components of an evidence-based adult learning
  system
• August 11 Identify continuing opportunities for
  purposeful integration of adult learning to
  impact child / student achievement

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As a Result of This Grant so far

• we have expanded the learning community to
  include more
• Families
• Higher education representatives
• Community service organizations
• Public and private agencies
• Business and industry
• Professional associations and organizations

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As a Result of This Grant so far

• two subcommittees have met to move the full
  Partnerships work forward relative to
• Implementing Standards for adult learning
• Using Technology to support adult learning

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As a Result of This Grant so far

• our work with the Natl Assn of State Directors
  of Special Education
• Presentation to the National Council of
  Administrators of Special Education, in
  partnership with other IDEA Partnership funded
  state teams
• Preliminary discussion about applying for a
  second year of funding

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PARTNERSHIP OUTCOMES
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Measurable Outcomes

• Contributing to a comprehensive integration of
  adult learning
• Increasing integration among the groups/
  initiatives including
• The Office of Special Education and Early
  Intervention Services
• The Michigan Department of Education (MDE)
• The broader community
• Meeting the spirit and letter of the
  responsibilities embodied in both the IDEA and
  NCLB Acts,
• Based on the PD Vision and Standards.

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State Board of Education

• We are responsible to
• the SBE approved
• Professional Development Vision and Standards for
  Michigan Educators, prepared
• With broad public input and
• With leadership from the MDE Consultant for
  Professional Development
• Whats New?--

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As a Result of This Grant so far

• we have disseminated resources
• PD Vision and Standards
• NSDC PD Standards
• Innovations Configuration
• we have increased familiarity with the State
  Board approved Professional Development Vision
  and Standards
• we have explored our current status (including
  points of pride and barriers) relative to the
  Professional Development Vision and Standards

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Braided Resources Partners and Learning Design
Service Providers
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PARTNERSHIP OUTCOMES
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Core Adult Learning Responsibilities

• Individuals with Disabilities Education
  Improvement Act of 2004
• e.g., alignment with NCLB requirements for Highly
  qualified personnel

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Core Adult Learning Responsibilities

• Recent initiatives support adult learning in high
  priority buildings
• State Improvement Grant
• Mathematics AYP Study Groups
• Root Cause Analysis
• English Language Arts AYP Study Group
• Expansion of Michigan Behavior and Learning
  Support Initiative
• Comprehensive Parent Service System

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PARTNERSHIP OUTCOMES
Final Outcomes
IDEA Implementation
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State Board of Education

• We are responsible to the
• Boards Strategic Goal.
• Attain substantial and meaningful improvement in
  academic achievement
• for all students/children with primary emphasis
  on high priority schools and students.
• Whats New?--January 11, 2005 Universal Education
  Presentation to the State Board

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Learner Support System
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Session objective

• Identify adult learning implications of the IDEA
  reauthorization
• Presentation questions
• What are the changes in IDEIA 2004 directly
  related to adult learning?
• What is OSE/EIS projecting for statewide
  technical assistance to support IDEIA 2004
  implementation?

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IDEIA 2004 Discussion

• To support implementation of IDEIA 2004
• How can my organization help through
  communication and adult learning?
• How can the IDEA Partnership help while
  developing as a learning community?

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• Norms
• Ties to Real work
• Engage as learning community
• Step back and reflect
• Revisit your 10-29 thoughts re key elements of
  lc

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Session objectives

• Clarify Michigan IDEA Partnership purpose and
  intended outcomes
• Identify adult learning implications of the IDEA
  reauthorization
• Deepen understanding of PD Vision and Standards
• Explore the aspects of an adult learning system
  that foster enhanced implementation of IDEA

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PARTNERSHIP OUTCOMES
Intermediate Outcomes
Final Outcomes
IDEA Implementation
State PD System
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Bridging from October 29

• Warm up As we evolve as a partnership what would
  be evidence or examples of our being an effective
  learning community?
• What would you add?
• What would you highlight as most important?

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Learning Community Standards

• MDE PD Vision and Standards
• NSDC Standards
• NSDC Innovation Configurations
• IDEA Partnership rubric
• Michigan Collaborative Position Statement

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Session objective

• Clarify Michigan IDEA Partnership purpose and
  intended outcomes
• Identify adult learning implications of the IDEA
  reauthorization
• Deepen understanding of PD Vision and Standards
• Explore the aspects of an adult learning system
  that foster enhanced implementation of IDEA

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PARTNERSHIP OUTCOMES
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Step 1 Brainstorm aspects
Informally talk take notes.

• What are aspects of a comprehensive statewide
  system of adult learning that is based on the PD
  Vision and Standards and purposefully integrated
  to improve implementation of IDEA?
• Ideally, a statewide comprehensive PD system for
  IDEA is
• Inclusive of Based on
• Supported by Informed by
• Compliant with Accountable to
• Grounded in Independent of

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Write overhead transparencies.

• Agree on 3-5 aspects to share from your table.
• Write one idea per overhead.
• Complete the sentence starter
• Ideally, a statewide comprehensive PD system for
  IDEA is
• Inclusive of Based on
• Supported by Informed by
• Compliant with Accountable to
• Grounded in Independent of

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Step 2 Clarify classify

• Authors
• Briefly clarify the system aspect.
• Listeners
• Ask questions of clarification not evaluation.
• (Suspend judgment in order to understand.)
• Delete your overhead if another table says the
  same thing. (Avoid redundancies.)
• Volunteer sorters
• Cluster like ideas.
• Write cluster headers that complete the sentence
  starter.
• Sub-sort similar ideas within each cluster.

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Step 3 Prioritize

• Get 3 dots, color-coded per your partner group.
• Yellow policy makers
• Red administrators
• Green service providers
• Blue families and advocates
• Black other
• Put your dots on the 3 MOST HELPFUL system
  components (headers).
• Use your own selection criteria.

After breakself-select to component for
strategizing
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Step 4 Identify strategies

• Given our current context, what are 2-3 specific
  actions that I, my organization, or we can commit
  to by the May meeting to contribute to our
  progress towards this system component?
• Brainstorm individually or with neighbors.

Share strategies with small group. Look for
partners with similar ideas.
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Step 4 Identify strategies

• Given our current context, what are 2-3 specific
  actions that I, my organization or we can commit
  to by the May meeting to contribute to our
  progress towards this system component?

• If you feel that you can commit
• Individually or with partners complete action
  plan.
• Turn in to be copied. Self-address envelope.

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Reflective Practice and Evaluation

• X
• X

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Reflective Practice and Evaluation

• Complete evaluation
• Reflective practice How can we sustain our
  engagement as a learning community?
• Chart What evidence, if any, do we currently
  demonstrate as a learning community/partnership?
• Chart How can we continue to grow as an
  effective learning community? (Ideas for
  including missing partners engaging interim
  communication and work building individual and
  collective learning possibilities for purposeful
  integration)

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IDEA Partnership Meetings

• October 29 Establish learning community
  connections around adult learning
• January 25 Identify the practices of a
  comprehensive adult learning system
• May 12 Identify accountability/evaluation
  components of an evidence-based adult learning
  system
• August 11 Identify continuing opportu-nities for
  purposeful integration of adult learning to
  impact child/student achievement