ASD Program Special Education Administrators (CoP)

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******

Notes from 12/5/18 CoP Meeting:

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

**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.

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

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

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

• 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:

 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