The IDEA Partnership at

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Building Unified Education Systems Using
Partnership Tools and Processes

• The IDEA Partnership at
• The National Association of State Directors of
  Special Education (NASDSE)
• www.ideapartnership.org 1-877-IDEA INFO

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IDEA Partnership US Department of
Educations Investment in stakeholder expertise

• An affiliation of 55 national organizations
• Collaborating across roles and settings
• Translating research and policy to practice
• Solving persistent and complex problems

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Using Existing Networks to Reach New Levels
of Impact

• We believe
• All students are general education students
  first.
• Members will hear messages from organizations
  differently than they hear them from the state
  or district.
• An organizations communication vehicles and
  national meetings create great opportunities to
  share information and motivate action.

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Using Existing Networks to Reach New Levels
of Impact

• We believe
• Organizational divisions and state affiliates are
  natural outlets for materials designed by the
  IDEA Partnership.
• When national organizations and their state
  affiliates work together, information can move
  quickly and with more meaning.
• When states work with state affiliates of
  national organizations, ideas can change
  practice.
• Together, states and organizational affiliates
  can tackle challenges to effective
  implementation.

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Tools and Processes to Support Our Work
Together

• Partnership Collections ( one topic many
  centers)
• User Guides (work of one center)
• Dialogue Guides
• RKR Library
• Communities of Practice
• Collaboration, Presentations, Mentoring,
  Networking
• National Meeting/Summits
• Websites www.ideapartnership.org
• www.sharedwork.org

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RTI Summit Beginning the
National Dialogue

• Cross-agency at the federal level
• State teams, across program areas
• Stakeholders as members of state teams
• Researchers and early implementers as presenters
• Keynotes with big messages that could generate
  discussion
• State team time to convey current efforts, think
  with a larger group of stakeholders and plan
  future efforts
• TA Centers and organizations learning with state
  teams by acting as facilitators
• Intentional follow-up across federal TA
  investments

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Organization Roles

• Core Members of State Teams
• National Association of Elementary School
  Principals (NAESP)
• American Association of School Administrators
  (AASA)
• National Education Association (NEA)
• American Federation of Teachers( AFT)
• Parent Training and Information Centers (PTI) /
  Parent Resource and Information Centers (PIRC)
• Planning Committee, Facilitators and Presenters
• Follow-up Networks

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Summit Goals and Expected Outcomes

• Share information, tools, and resources
• Learn about the value of an RTI model to
• Build rapport among diverse stakeholders within
  each state/territory
• Follow through back in the states/territories

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State Team Interaction

• Three Facilitated Sessions
• Shared leadership and visioning
• Assessment of current statewide capacity for
  change to RTI
• Action-planning to support and enhance
  implementation of RTI
• Planning Document
• Shared Leadership Who are the other stakeholder
  groups that need to be invited to the table?
• Statewide Initiatives What needs to be in place
  to support change efforts?
• Professional Development - What needs to be in
  place to support change efforts?
• Reactions from Facilitators

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Partnership Collection on RTI

• Stakeholder perspectives on a topic (e.g. RTI)
• Available to people at all knowledge levels
• Making research tangible to those in the field
• A comprehensive collection of materials and
  resources

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How to use

• Knowledge level zero to much
• RTI school improvement
• Concerns
• Changing roles and responsibilities
• Opportunity to gain requisite knowledge and
  skills
• Reallocation of resources time and
• Fidelity of implementation
• To engage in dialogue

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Tools to begin the discussion

• Grounding Assumptions
• Guiding Principles of RTI
• Dialogue Guides
• What is RTI?
• Early Intervening Services (EIS) in the Federal
  Regulations
• Glossary of RTI Terms

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Tools to deepen the discussion and move to
implementation

• Power Points and Presenter Guides
• Leaving No Child Behind Response to Intervention
  Fundamentals for Educators and their Partners
• Response to Intervention Policy Considerations
  and Implementation
• Response to Intervention and SLD Identification
  
• Dialogue Guides
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User Guides Technical Assistance In-depth

• Provide efficient access to and use of research
  and materials located on a Federal Technical
  Assistance (TA) Center website
• Developed by cross-stakeholder group
  representative of
• IDEA Partnership organizations
• TA Center personnel
• Range of roles at all levels of the education
  system
• Geographic locations from across the United States

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Each Guide Contains

• Needs of the Field
• Essential Elements
• Guiding Principles
• Grounding Assumptions

• Dialogue Guides
• Fact Sheet
• Glossary
• Power Point Presenters Guide

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Current availability

• National Secondary Transition Technical
  Assistance Center (NSTTAC) Evidence-based
  Practice
• Available now at www.ideapartnership.org
• National Center on Instruction
• In process, projected to be available June
• Creating Agreement (early dispute resolution)
• In planning stage

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Dialogue Guides Tools for Building Shared
Understanding and Shared Implementation Efforts

• Are models for conducting interactive discussions
  across stakeholders
• Examine assumptions held
• Seek common ground
• Support consensus
• Encourage application

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Components of Dialogue Guides

• DG Brief
• Available now to the field
• Brief article or summary
• Reaction Questions
• Acknowledgement of differing perspectives
• Application Questions
• Implications for advancing practice together

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Dialogue Guides

• Build on important policy documents
• Help make technical language understandable
• Get to the issues behind the language and get
  people talking
• Cross-stakeholder developed
• Statutory Guides and RTI Collection
• Available at Partnership website
  www.ideapartnership.org
• Facilitators Guide to make it easier to invite
  groups into dialogue

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Communities of Practice

• A way of working
• Involving those who do shared work
• Involving those who share issues
• Always asking who isnt here?
• A way of learning
• To create new knowledge grounded in doing the
  work
• With those who can advocate for and make change

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Levels of Collaboration in the Partnership

• Inform- Share accurate, relevant and useful
  information through national networks
• Network Connect to state affiliates of national
  organizations to enable the work to move more
  deeply
• Collaborate Work across organizations to
  develop shared messages
• Transform Support shared work between state
  affiliates and states

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Why States Are Collaborating through Communities
of Practice

• Efficiency and effectiveness of collaborative
  planning and monitoring
• School Improvement demands of No Child Left
  Behind
• NCLB requirements for highly qualified teachers
  and adequate yearly progress
• More meaningful planning and program design for
  teachers
• Desire for compatibilityreduced chance of
  incompatibility
• Desire to move beyond discussion to action
• Move from a desire to collaborate to
  collaborating

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IDEA Partnership Can Provide

• Brokered connections to key groups
• Introductory presentations to open
  cross-stakeholder work
• Ongoing collaboration
• Mentoring for deeper collaboration within states
• Networking opportunities around shared issues

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For more information about the IDEA Partnership

• Visit the website www.ideapartnership.org
• Call toll free line at 1-877-IDEA INFO
• The IDEA Partnership is funded by the U.S.
  Department of Education Office of Special
  Education Programs (OSEP) and is part of the
  Technical Assistance and Dissemination network

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