Michigan Association of Administrators of Special Education

ASD Program Special Education Administrators (CoP) / December 2018

Type: Open Committee

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

 

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**NEXT MEETING IS FACE TO FACE ON 2/13/19 IN LANSING FOLLOWING THE MAASE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING******

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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******