ASD Program Special Education Administrators (CoP) / December 2018
Focus Areas: High Quality Student Evaluations, Skilled Staff, Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
Type: Open Committee
**NEXT MEETING IS FACE TO FACE ON 2/13/19 IN LANSING FOLLOWING THE MAASE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING******
Hot Topics
Notes from 12/5/18 CoP Meeting:
ASD Community of Practice |
Agenda
Lansing Crowne Plaza
12:15 – 2:15
December 5, 2018
Purpose of Meeting
- Strategic planning for developing collaborative frameworks across agencies through trainings
- Provide opportunity to identify service delivery challenges
- Provide opportunity to enhance collaboration amongst members
Meeting Objectives
- Review October work plan
- Discuss Progress on Document Distribution and Communication Plan
- Consider next steps to develop best practice collaboration tools and practices with providers and agency partners
Agenda Items:
12:15 Welcome
12:20 Review work plan: Action items from October work plan were completed
12:30 Review committee update to MAASE leadership presented 12/3: Clarified 2018-19 CoP goals,
presented information on what is going well for the group as well as challenges
12:50 Review of recent trainings on Collaboration Resources, Tools & Best Practices: Discussed
feedback from conference participants on school personnel related issues and the
need for school staff to implement evidence based practices with fidelity regardless
of placement.
1:00 Discuss strategic planning on providing resources and tools to support collaboration to the field
See action plan below…
2:00 Wrap up
December , 2018 Work Plan
WHAT | BY WHOM | WHEN | COMMENT |
Communicate proposal to MAASE leadership regarding the need for increased member involvement in this CoP to improve use of evidence based practices in school based programming regardless of placement | Christi | Jan 15 | Consistent feedback given at collaboration presentations regarding the lack of EBP use in school programming. This makes collaborating with school personnel challenging as the potential point of collaboration (ABA methodology = EBP) is not there. *Also begs the question of “our we truly offering FAPE for kids on the spectrum if EBP’s are not being used?” |
Consider expanding this CoP to include other behavioral health categories – change our name? | All members – consider possible name change. (i.e, using EBP’s is not just an ASD thing – should be a special education thing) | By Feb – next meeting | Discussion around including SEI and adjudicated youth with ASD CoP? Discussion around re-naming our group. Some ideas shared were mental and behavioral health CoP; Behavior and EBP CoP. **Please be thinking about this and help with developing a more inclusive name for our CoP.** |
Host an EdCamp at Feb. MAASE to discuss use of behavioral supports (EBP’s) outside of ASD programming | Christi & _______ (need one more volunteer) | Feb MAASE | |
Consider how START and other initiatives could help support the use of EBP’s outside the world of autism (not just within ASD programming or LEA’s but also in MoCi or EI/Trauma world, etc.) | Kelly | Ongoing |
**NEXT MEETING IS FACE TO FACE ON 2/13/19 IN LANSING FOLLOWING THE MAASE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING******
ASD Program Special Education Administrators (CoP) / October 2017
Focus Areas: High Quality Student Evaluations, Skilled Staff
Type: Open Committee
The next ASD Community of Practice meeting will be held on December 6 at the conclusion of the MAASE General Membership Meeting. The ASD Community of Practice recently submitted a 2nd edition of Autism Insurance Benefit Guidance Document to our MAASE Board which has been approved. The 2nd edition of this guidance document has been edited to reflect a collaborative framework. The document will be presented to the Governor’s Autism Council on Friday, October 27.
Hot Topics
Our 2nd edition MAASE ASD CoP Autism Insurance Benefit Guidance document will be disseminated to stakeholders throughout the course of the 2017-18 school year from CoP members to raise awareness with service providers regarding delivery of service from a collaborative and compliant framework.
ASD Program Special Education Administrators (CoP) / June 2017
Type: Open Committee
Hot Topics
Purpose of Meeting
- Share work of workgroup for review and input
- Provide opportunity to identify collaborative opportunities
- Provide opportunity to identify service delivery challenges
- Provide opportunity to enhance collaboration amongst members
Meeting Objectives
- Review April work plan
- Provide workgroup with input to enhance Service Provision document
- Consider action steps to enhance collaboration with providers and agency partners
Agenda Items:
– Provide update of work on MAASE Autism Insurance Benefit 2013 document: work committee shared updated document and is asking committee members for quick feedback for any edits.
– Collaboration with agency partners in region/protocol for common language across providers
– Looking ahead to 2017-18: determine next steps for disseminating and implementation of guidance document across MAASE membership and service providers in our state
ASD Program Special Education Administrators (CoP) / February 2017
Focus Areas: Skilled Staff, Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
Type: Open Committee
The MAASE ASD COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE WILL MEET AGAIN 4/12/17 FROM 12 – 2:30
Hot Topics
The Autism Community of Practice met on February 8, 2017 to review the edits to the revised Guidance Document “MAASE Autism Insurance Benefit 2013.” The workgroup discussed collaborative opportunities across our state, service delivery changes across the state and opportunities to enhance collaboration across our members.
ASD Program Special Education Administrators (CoP) / April 2016
Focus Areas: High Quality Student Evaluations, Program Evaluation, Skilled Staff, Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
Type: Open Committee
Hot Topics
- The mission of the MAASE Autism Community of Practice is to provide guidance to the field as the state plan for autism is implemented. The Autism Community of Practice will provide input, guidance and technical assistance to the Autism Council of Michigan as part of the implementation strategy for the state plan.
Focus Areas:
Priority | Dissemination of Tools and Resources Timeline | Training Timeline | Sustainability Measures
Timeline |
Fidelity of Implementation; tools for monitoring Timeline |
By April 26, 2016 & ongoing | By April 26, 2016 & ongoing | By December 2016 & ongoing | By December 2016 & ongoing | |
By April 2017 & ongoing | By April 2017 & ongoing | By August 2017 & ongoing | By August 2017 & ongoing | |
By December 2017 & ongoing | By December 2017 & ongoing | By April 2018 & ongoing | By April 20178& ongoing | |
By December 2018 & ongoing | By December 2018 & ongoing | By April 2018 & ongoing | By April 2018 & ongoing |
ASD Community of Practice Agenda
April 13, 2016
Purpose of Meeting
Continue with organizing the work of the autism CoP for 2015/16
Finalize details for April 26 training
Review Binders
Meeting Objectives
Assign tasks to members for finalizing details for April 26 training
Review Binders: scope and sequence of committee work using goals and benchmarks. Aligning the work of this committee to the four main focus areas of MAASE.
MAASE ASD CoP Purpose/Function
Review MAASE four focus areas: high quality evaluations, specially designed instruction, skilled
Review meeting minutes from December
Assign final details of April 26 training
Identify date/s and logistics around 2 nd day of training to occur during the summer institute
Review and discuss Education-based Evaluations for ASD
ASD Program Special Education Administrators (CoP) / April 2016
Focus Areas: High Quality Student Evaluations
Type: Open Committee
Education-based Evaluations for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Crowne Plaza Lansing West Hotel – Lansing, Michigan