Association Partnerships

Association Partnerships / October 2018

Focus Areas: Skilled Staff

Type: Open Committee

The AP meet on October 9 from 3-3:30 after the MAASE PD event. The group made introductions and made connections to those liaison or committee members in attendance. Those at the meeting included, Andy Claes, Marty Combs, Tami Mannis, Brenda Tarsa, Abbey Allen, Jim Loser, and Matt Koekoek.

Our next meeting will be at 3:30 in the ballroom following the Tuesday PD of MAASE in December. We will continue to meet on the Tuesday following MAASE PD.

We discussed the need to define the MAASE message as we are collaborating with other professional groups.

The potential need to add member representatives/liaisons to associated with other organizations.

The need to review the Communication Tool and help facilitate internal and external communication.

How will we communicate to the board and to the other organizations, “what message do we need to send”.

Association Partnerships / June 2018

Focus Areas: Skilled Staff

Type: Open Committee

The AP Committee Chair met with representatives from MTSA, MAASE and MDE-OSE during MAASE Summer Institute. The topic of discussion was exploration of a partnership between MAASE, MTSA and MDE-OSE to leverage resources across the three organizations for the purpose of shared learning and support. A sub-committee was formed with the task of bringing a proposal to the MAASE BoD in October. Tammy Hazley and Craig Kuhn will lead the development of the proposal.

Association Partnerships / December 2017

Focus Areas: Skilled Staff, Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

Type: Open Committee

Michigan CEC has asked for partnership support in extending the visibility and utility of the MAASE Guidance Document: IFSP and IEP consideration for students with ASD receiving insurance-based treatment/intervention.

Association Partnerships / October 2017

Focus Areas: High Quality Student Evaluations, Program Evaluation, Skilled Staff, Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

Type: Open Committee

Committee meetings have set for 2017-2018. They will occur on Wednesdays, two weeks prior to General membership Meetings. We will continue to meet virtually.

Feedback from the BoD helped the committee identify three areas of focus for the development of initial one page and PPT overviews of important MAASE work.

• SLP – Ben Hicks in lead
• ED and ASD – Matt Korolden in lead

Ben Hicks will serve as MAASE representative to CEC as they review presentation proposals in the leadership strand for the 2018 conference

Association Partnerships / June 2017

Focus Areas: Skilled Staff

Type: Open Committee

Committee meetings have been set for 2017-2018. The will occur on the Wednesdays two week prior to General Membership meetings. We will continue to meet virtually.

Feedback form the Executive Board help the committee identify 3 areas to focus on for the development of initial one page and PPT overviews if important MAASE work.

• SLIP – Ben Hicks in lead
• ED and ASD – Matt Korolden in lead

Ben Hicks will serve as a MAASE representative to CEC as they review presentation proposals in the leadership strand for the 2018 conference.

Association Partnerships / June 2017

Focus Areas: Skilled Staff

Type: Open Committee

No immediate dates. Team will set 2017-2018 meeting dates following summer leadership meetings.

At the Aprio BoD meeting, the AP committee was asked to draft templates for a one-page MAASE work overview and a presentation format for consideration by the BoD in June. These items were submitted for consideration.

Association Partnerships / April 2017

Focus Areas: High Quality Student Evaluations, Program Evaluation, Skilled Staff, Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

Type: Open Committee

Next Commmittee Meeting: May 31, 2017 @ 3:00pm

Committe meets via Conference Call/Adobe Connect

Next Steps:  The AP Committee has completed initial steps as laid out in a committee action plan approved by the BOD in 2016:

• Identified emerging organizational (MAASE) messages and work aligned to the four focus areas.
• MAASE BOD approved templates for a one-page overview and organizational PPT to support consistent communication (available on MAASE website)

The AP committee has scanned MAASE committee/COP/Workgroups and identified current work aligned to one of the four focus areas.

AP Committee members surveyed/interviewed the leaders in each area of MAASE work for content that may be of value to organizations outside of MAASE.

Association Partnerships / April 2016

Focus Areas: High Quality Student Evaluations, Program Evaluation, Skilled Staff, Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

Type: Open Committee

Next Committee Meeting June 1, 2016

APC met4/6/16 at 3:00 via Adobe Connect

Present: Matt Korolden, Shalika Robie, Tracye Johnson and  Andy Claes

Absent: Bill Brown, Jennifer Scott-Burton, Ben Hicks, Kim Iverson

Agenda topics

• Emerging organizational messages aligned to each of the focus areas
• MAASE members to develop the  “MAASE Message” for each of the four focus area
  • The committee revisited the work already accomplished by the MAASE Executive Board and determined that no additional work is needed on these two items
  • The committee identified the need to clarify with Executive Board the need for any supplemental resources related to each focus area
    • One pagers
    • Presentation/video

Managing committee work & Committee Foundations

• The committee reviewed two resources: a chart to assist with identifying and tracking MAASE work that connects to the APC function and logic model to describe the APC workflow.
• The committee agreed that the activity of identifying existing or emerging MAASE work and connecting it to the APC function would best be accomplished as part of the MAASE Leadership meeting in July.

It can be reviewed at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FDJcXg01gcZCfK_ADp9rt0gvzZnJGF2buIyZjspNdFU/edit#gid=0

• The committee developed a workflow

It can be viewed at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7S2FW5OWaBdfml6cS0zRTdTVEJob3RXcFZtZ2RneEVxaHBjdlRpRWlHY3AzeF9PdVo0enc

• The committee reviewed and adopted a “go to” list of communication resources.  They can be reviewed at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7S2FW5OWaBdRVlwMUYtZUZOd0k
• The committee reviewed an initial draft of a model one page communication.  Work will continue on this document with the intent that it become a sample for future work to model.

MAASE Resources

• The committee viewed a draft PPT template that might be used as the sample for future work to model.

It can be viewed at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7S2FW5OWaBdfml6cS0zRTdTVEJob3RXcFZtZ2RneEVxaHBjdlRpRWlHY3AzeF9PdVo0enc

• The committee discussed additional organizations for direct outreach: MAISA, Michigan Alliance for Families and Michigan Family to Family Support.

It can be viewed at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7S2FW5OWaBdfml6cS0zRTdTVEJob3RXcFZtZ2RneEVxaHBjdlRpRWlHY3AzeF9PdVo0enc

Respectfully submitted 4/6/16

Matt Korolden, Committee Chair

Association Partnerships /

Focus Areas: Skilled Staff, Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

Next scheduled meeting 4/6/16 at 3:00pm via Adobe Connect

APC met 2/10/16 at 3:00 via Adobe Connect

Present: Matt Korolden, Ben Hicks, Laurie Jefsen and Andy Claes

Absent: Bill Brown, Jennifer Scott-Burton, Shalika Robie and Traci Henderson

Agenda topics

• Identifying Partnership Opportunities
  • The committee reviewed and adpoted a worksheet for identifying existing work within established committees and COPs
  • The committee identified 8 existing opportunities that need additional exploration
  • The committee agreed to continue to allow opportunities to emerge naturally rather than engage in active discovery and identification
  • The document can be found at this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EPKRS1I08WgDfFOAHeH351DygqifLAjQGRx8bQ0HfeI/edit
• Managing committee work
  • The committee discussed and identified a need to manage the committee’s efforts.  Andy Claes agreed to draft a model for tracking work.
  • The committee discussed and identified a need to manage the flow of work into and out of the committee as well as between the committee, Board of Directors and “workgroups” engaged in MAASE work. Ben Hicks agreed to draft a model for managing workflow.
• MAASE Resources
  • The committee discussed the need for consistency in any resources produced/supported by the association.
  • It was proposed and and adopted that the APC would ask the Board of Diretors for approval on two items:
    • Any work done on behalf of MAASE and identified as fitting into the scope of the APC would always include two outcomes/products: 1) A concise, one page summary of the topic/subject; 2) a 2-3 minute, multi-media “elevator conversation” summarizing the key aspects of the work.
      • template for one page summary can be found at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7S2FW5OWaBdRVlwMUYtZUZOd0k
      • guidance for the one page summary and multi-media presentation can be found at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7S2FW5OWaBdRVlwMUYtZUZOd0k
    • A third outcome/product would be a transportable presentation that could be carried to appropriate audiences as identified by the committee and approved by the Executive Board.
  • It was proposed and adopted that the APC would ask the Board of Directors to:
    • approve or revise and approve a template and accompanying gidance for the developement of one page summary documents
    • provide or develop and provide a standard MAASE PPT template
• Committee Foundations
  • the committee discussed and agreed that a one page summary of the purpose and intent of the APC would be a good model for future work.  Andy Claes agreed to draft a document for the committee to review.
  • the committee discussed and agreed that a 2-3 minute, multi-media presentation describing the purpose and intent of the APC would be developed using the one page summary as a basis.
  • together, these two products would serve as initial models for other groups.
• Summary
  • The APC is asking for Board of Directors approval of the following
    • template for one page summary
    • creation/provision of MAASE PPT template
    • APC work on behalf of MAASE would alwasy include the development of a one page summary and a 2-3 minute multi-media overview of the topic.  When appropriate, it would include a transportable presentation that could be flexibly delivered to target audiences.

Respectfully submitted

2/10/16

Matt Korolden, Committee Chair