Michigan Association of Administrators of Special Education

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

 

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

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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.
      • 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