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Creating Positive Partnerships

Creating Positive Partnerships. PBIS Maryland Summer Institute July 22, 2005. Introductions. Jessica Pearsall, advocate Ellen Hughes, teacher Claire Holmes, advocate Kim Willard, teacher & advocate. Partnerships. What is a partnership? Who is involved in a partnership?

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Creating Positive Partnerships

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  1. Creating Positive Partnerships PBIS MarylandSummer Institute July 22, 2005

  2. Introductions • Jessica Pearsall, advocate • Ellen Hughes, teacher • Claire Holmes, advocate • Kim Willard, teacher & advocate

  3. Partnerships • What is a partnership? • Who is involved in a partnership? • What are the characteristics of effective partnerships? • What are the characteristics of ineffective partnerships?

  4. Communication • a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior Direct, Respectful, Ongoing Multi-directional, Thorough

  5. Belief • to accept as true, genuine, or real; ideals we believe in

  6. Team Spirit • a number of persons associated together in work or activity: a group on one side (the child’s side)

  7. Flexibility • characterized by a ready capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements

  8. Understanding • to show a sympathetic or tolerant attitude toward something. The action of being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner

  9. Trust • assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something; one in which confidence is placed

  10. Celebrations& Thankfulness • observe notable occasions with festivities • be conscious of benefit received, offer expressions of thanks

  11. Communication Belief Team Spirit Feedback Understanding Trust Celebrations & Thankfulness Building Partnerships

  12. Barriers • Does the IEP process usually model effective partnerships? • Write barriers to effective partnerships in the IEP process on an index card.

  13. Team Alex • Jessica Pearsall, Alex’s mom • Ellen Hughes, one of Alex’s third grade teachers at Ilchester Elementary School in Howard County

  14. Self-Advocacy • Speaking and acting for oneself. • People may need help learning new skills through training, experience and practice which allow people to make decisions about their own lives. • Many people in the community still have not accepted the fact that individuals with mental retardation must speak, choose and act for themselves.

  15. Self-Determination • Making choices based on one’s own preferences and beliefs, participating in and taking control of decisions which affect the quality of one’s own life. • Having the freedom and authority to plan one’s life and contribute to the community. Taking risks and assuming responsibility actions. • Empowerment through self-determination increases the respect and value one has for oneself and that others have for an individual.

  16. MAPS Process • Making Action Plans • Vision Building • 8 Key Questions • Use in transition or when everyone is not “on the same page” • Find more information at www.mcie.org (Look under “Publications”)

  17. Solutions Circle Roles: • Presenter • Facilitator • Recorder • Brainstormers

  18. Solutions Circle • Welcome the Group -- 1 minute • Present the Problem -- 5 minutes • Ask for Clarification -- 3 minutes • Generate Solutions -- 5 minutes • Gather Information -- 3 minutes • Take a Step Forward -- 30 seconds • Follow Up -- 1 minute

  19. Resources • Books • Websites

  20. Practical Strategies • Strategies for building powerful partnerships in the IEP process • Specific, observable actions—not general philosophical statements • What works? • What doesn’t?

  21. Families & Professionals United • Advocacy and Leadership Development • September 2005 – May 2006 • 14 sessions • Earn 6 MSDE or 6 graduate credits • All expenses (except TU graduate credit) courtesy of Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore County Public Schools, and Towson University

  22. Q & A • Questions, answers, and discussion • Revisit barriers on index cards

  23. Attitude Is the Real Disability • “Failure does not exist in the lexicon of a flight controller. The universal characteristic of a controller is that he will never give up until he has an answer or another option.” -- Gene Kranz, former NASA flight director

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