Engaging Stakeholders: The Imperative for Building Powerful New Connections with Teachers, Administr

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Engaging Stakeholders The Imperative for
Building Powerful New Connections with Teachers,
Administrators and Families

• Irene Martinez, National Fiesta Educativa
• Ed Amundson, National Education Association, CA
• Larry Waite, American Federation of Teachers, NY

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Who Are the Stakeholders?

• System Partners
• Bureaus within State Education Agencies
• Elementary/Secondary
• Special Education
• Accountability Offices
• State Licensing Bodies
• Within State Education Agency
• Separate Standards Board
• Higher Education
• State Authorities
• Individual Institutions

• Implementation Partners
• Teachers
• Administrators
• Family Networks
• TA Investments
• Professional Organizations
• Advocacy Organizations

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Where Is the Value Added by Engaging the
Stakeholders?

• Apparent
• Add capacity to the state staff
• Build relationships that undergird real change
• Develop connections to extensive and deep
  networks
• Create customized messages
• Share aligned messages

• Emerging
• Introduce twoway learning
• Sense issues before critical points
• Specify the dimensions of an issue with those
  impacted
• Identify shared interests
• Move beyond organizational positions to shred
  interests
• Unite the state and the stakeholders around
  common goals

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CTQ Creating the Opportunity to Reach Out to
Stakeholders

• Design of the Center
• State
• State Teams
• Within-state communities
• Cross-state
• Forums
• Community focused on Preparation and Licensing
• Issue
• HOUSSE
• CO-Teaching and Service Delivery
• Serving Low Incidence Disabilities

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The IDEA Partnership Building Connections to the
Stakeholders

• Design of the Partnership
• 55 national organizations
• Build connections around the core work of the
  state
• Work with existing TA Centers to maximize the
  resources and support
• Tell the transformational stories of states that
  are doing their core work with the stakeholders
• www.ideapartnership.org
• Work in States - Professional Development/Adult
  Learning
• Dialogue Guides
• Statutory changes in IDEA 2004, including HQ
• Excellent practice documents

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Your Insights

• How can CTQ and the IDEA Partnership work
  together to bring more stakeholders
• into the work of states?