The IDEA Partnership: Igniting Change Through Shared Work Ideas, Roles and Activities That Build Connections Partnership Meeting March 2-3, 2006

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The IDEA Partnership Igniting Change Through
Shared WorkIdeas, Roles and Activities That
Build Connections Partnership MeetingMarch 2-3,
2006
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March 2AM Session
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What Can 55 National Organizations Do In 48
Hours To Influence What We Know and Do in
Implementing IDEA? Lets Find Out!
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Organizations Have Connections to the People That
Do the Work and Receive the Services Supported by
IDEA
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The IDEA Partnership Connects Organizations
Around Common Issues and Shared Goals
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Together We Can Create a Picture of What Needs to
be Done and How We Can Do It
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We Know

• that organizations
• Can make their members aware of emerging trends
• Bring new information to their members
• Create interest around issues among their members
• Help their members see how issues will impact
  them
• Are trusted sources of information about what is
  known
• Are trusted sources of information about what is
  new
• Have deep networks of people that are connected
  to them in many ways

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Together, We Are Exploring

• what will happen if organizations
• Begin to work with each other around the things
  they care about
• Work together on messages that everyone can
  support
• Create dialogue with those that have other
  perspectives
• Model the benefit in working together
• Bring their members as allies into the work of
  their state agencies

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In This Meeting We Will Look at Organizational
Connections In New and Deeper Ways
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Model for Partnership Work

• RESULTS/IMPACT
• Are we using the outreach potential of our
  organizations?
• Are we learning how to customize the message
  for particular groups?
• Are we helping people to use the information they
  learn through other organizational channels?
• Do we know if it makes a difference?

• ACTIVITY
• What are the critical elements that everyone
  needs to know?
• What are the presentation and information
  elements that will answer the most for the most?
• How can we keep people connected around this
  issue?
• How can we help people use the information that
  they learn?

• RESOURCES/INPUTS
• What organizations are interested?
• What TA centers are interested?
• What states are interested?
• What do we know about our constituents needs
  that will be answered by this activity?
• What do we have to build on?
• How should we use the Partnership resources?

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Model for Deepening Our Work
1st Order Outcome
2nd Order Outcome
Customers
Activities
Outputs
Impact
Resources
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WHAT? HOW? WHO?
WHY? HOW WELL? WHO ELSE?
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The Customer

• Traditional Approach
• What is the need for information?
• How should information be presented to fill the
  need?
• Deeper Approach
• Is information alone enough?
• How are others stakeholders thinking and talking
  about this information?

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First Level Outcomes

• Traditional Approach
• Getting information out
• Assessing Reach
• Deeper Approach
• Building personal meaning
• Using the information

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Second Level Outcomes

• Deeper Approach
• Seeking others who care about the issues
• Creating dialogue around issues and emerging
  practices
• Doing shared work that puts information into
  action
• Translating policy into practice
• Sharing the lessons of practice
• Giving a voice to family perspectives on issues
• Host/Model shared training opportunities
• Working as an ally with the SEA/Lead Agency to
  implement at scale
• Creating a two way learning arrangement around
  new provision and emerging issues that includes
  decisionmakers, practitioners and families

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Impact Outcomes and Results

• Deeper Approach to Information and Training
• Is there an improvement in awareness?
• Is there a difference in understanding?
• Is there a difference in attitude/ disposition?
• Are people doing things differently based on what
  they are learning?
• Is the change in learning making a difference in
  outcomes for students?

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Organizational Connections in the IDEA
Partnership

• We are looking to move toward a deeper approach
  to first level outcomes in all we do with
  organizations.
• We are looking to more actively work with
  organizations that want to achieve second level
  outcomes
• We want all the organizations to help us to
  assess the results and impact of our work!
• Watch for these themes throughout the meeting!

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The Dispute Resolution Workgroup

• Grounded in information represented in two prior
  meetings
• Suggested by the Partners in August, 2005
• Begun by experiencing a common event
• Advanced by voluntary participation of interested
  groups
• Today we hear what has happened
• How it happened
• Why it is important
• And what might be next
• Your ideas are welcome!

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Going for Deeper Work

• What is the value of working together on this
  content?
• What is the value to your organization?
• How does working together in more collaborative
  ways open more opportunities?
• What other value is added by working in this way?

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March 2PM Session
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Emerging Issues Response to Intervention and
Early Intervening Services

• Key issues in reauthorization
• Prominent in the work of the NCLB/IDEA
  Collaboration Community
• Closely connected to School Improvement under
  NCLB and needs to be connected in the minds of
  implementers at the state and local level
• Closely connected to the work of the National
  Center for Research on Learning Disabilities
• Closely connected to earlier work around Teacher
  Assistance Teams, Pre-referral Intervention and
  Instructional Support Teamsand needs to be
  connected to, yet differentiated from, that work
• Meet our presenters
• Dr. Dan Reschly, Vanderbilt University
• Dr. Darryl Mellard, University of Kansas

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Going for Deeper Work

• What is the value of working together on this
  content?
• What is the value to your organization?
• How does working together in more collaborative
  ways open more opportunities?
• What other value is added by working in this way?

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March 3 AM Session
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Working Together around RTI

• Traditional Approaches vs. Deeper
  Approaches
• What will we commit to doing together?
• What might happen if we decide to use our
  networks strategically?

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March 3PM
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Catching Up on Our Activities

• National Community of Practice on School
  Behavioral Health
• National Community of Practice in Support of
  Transition
• State Models of Collaborative Professional
  Development/Adult Learning

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Going for Deeper Work

• What is the value of working together on this
  content?
• What is the value to your organization?
• How does working together in more collaborative
  ways open more opportunities?
• What other value is added by working in this way?

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The Partnership Website and The RKR Library

• www.ideapartnership.org
• 1,238, 713 hits
• 19, 140 hits and prints of the OSEP One Pagers
  and Dialogue Starters
• 1, 292 downloads of the Facilitators Guide to
  Dialogue
• 46,421 hits on the NCLB.IDEA Resources
• Imagine what we could do if we marketed our work
  together!

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Introducing Our Information Collections

• The Topics Database
• Many Journals, Many Voices
• The RKR (Results for Kids Resources) Library

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Going for Deeper Work

• What is the value of working together on this
  content?
• What is the value to your organization?
• How does working together in more collaborative
  ways open more opportunities?
• What other value is added by working in this way?