1. START Fall Leadership Day 2018-19

2. Today’s Agenda RCN Priority Areas Featured
RCN Connections and Networking
Hot Topics
RCN Priority Areas Featured
Community Conversations: A Tool-kit for Student Led Events
START Updates (+slide show at lunch)
New Concepts and Resources
Effective Team Process and Meeting Mechanics
Differentiation Fair
Personal Curriculum Examples
Data Tracking Using Google Forms

3. RCN Connections and Networking: Hot Topics in ASD
Review updated map and indicate it can be found on the website, if needed.

4. Hot Topic Examples Seclusion & Restraint
Reduced day IEPs for students with challenging behavior
Collaborating with ABA service providers
Sexual health instruction
Paraprofessional training and coaching
Implementing a coaching model
Discipline practices and suspension
Sustaining peer to peer support
Behavior plan implementation

5. Summarize themes for your table
What are the issues currently confronting schools in programming for students with ASD or Extensive Support Needs?
Discussion Round:
Each person at the table shares one hot topic (brief so everyone has time to share)
Summarize themes for your table
7 minutes

6. Using the Meeting Mechanics Process for Hot Topics

7. Brainstorming (photo)
Talk about the adult behavior. Take a little more time with this.

8. Cluster & Prioritize
(photo)

9. RCN Members Distribute
Equally distribute across chart paper and mix with people from various RCN For the Hot Topic on your chart paper, brainstorm ways you can address the issue
Take your guided notes pages to the chart paper so you can capture ideas to bring back to your RCN table.

10. Take a Seat and Hold on to your Ideas for after the Break

11. Margie Mayberry, START Project Consultant GVSU
Community Conversations: A Toolkit for a Student-Led Event Our experience and the lessons learned along the way
Margie starts off the presentation
Introduce team members: Self, Kathy Hickok and Karen Heath
Talk about the Berrien RESA journey-began 4 years ago. All the work you see today is based off of Erik Carter and his team’s work. Erik has been a strong supporter of Berrien’s approach to the community conversation.
Goals for today: Think about a community conversation from students’ perspective, learn about and use the resource being shared today (toolkit), and think about who in your school district or ISD who may be able to provide support to you if you host this type of event.
This is our experience…and our lessons learned.
Karen Heath, Supervisor for Communication
Berrien RESA
Margie Mayberry, START Project Consultant
GVSU
Kathy Hickok, ASD Consultant
Berrien RESA

13. Hot Topics Follow-Up
Each RCN member shares top ideas for addressing their hot topic As an RCN, identify ways to utilize the ideas in your region

14. START Updates

16. 3 minutes

19. START Intensive Training Sites

20. START IT Sites for 2019-20 Early Childhood Host Site NAN at COOR ISD
Team application will be available in January

21. START IT Sites for 2019-20 Changes to K-12 IT
District level team development
Capacity building
10 days in year one
Building level coaching support in year one
Year two modules
K-12 Host Site Applications Available Late November

22. START IT Sites for 2019-20 BYF Host Site
Host site application will be available late November

23. RCN Contract Activities

24. RCN Contract Information 2018-19
Application and Forms Page!

25. RCN Application 2018-19 Goal 1: PD with Impact
RCN trainings on START website
Goal 2: Coaching for Implementation
If using USAPT, complete online
Goal 3: Transition
Goal 4: Peer to Peer
Peer to peer data package
Fidelity checklists (submit)
Goal 5: Family Engagement

26. Goal 4: Peer to Peer Data Package
Provide data on the impact of peer to peer support programs using the START peer to peer data tools and surveys.
Data Package
Program and Building Data
Student with ASD Impact Data
Peer Impact Data
Surveys (not required for submission)
8 Fidelity Checklists

27. Mid Year and End of Year Report
Check the RCN Application and Forms page of the website

28. Watch the Slide Show at Lunch to see START Event Dates!

29. P2P Community of Practice Lunchtime Meeting Location: Centennial B & C
Reminder!
P2P Community of Practice Lunchtime Meeting Location: Centennial B & C

31. Effective Teaming and Meeting Mechanics

33. New Manual New Section: Effective Teaming Meeting Essentials
Meeting Practices
Individual Meeting Accountability
Meeting Mechanics Process
Meeting Mechanics Resources
Guiding Principles
Visual Organizers & Tools

34. Meeting Essentials & Practices

35. Meeting Plan Start on Time and End on time.
Members stay the duration of the meeting.
Rotate leadership roles – others? Meeting coordinator
We do not stop the meeting to update tardy members
Ground rules are established and a safe environment has been created to call each other out. Ex: obstacles prior to implementation variables
A structured agenda
Data drives decision-making
Multiple perspectives are considered
Everyone is accountable for the outcome – no more blaming the person who came up with the idea, the whole team can celebrate successes.
Interventions that are implemented are evidence based.
All team members walk away with notes to reference
Action plans are evenly distributed.

36. Individual Meeting Accountability
This is my favorite part…
Self-assessment… intention (whether others know it or not) will impact the function and the integrity of your team.
Turn these into questions… did I… and did I…. with fidelity (wholeheartedly)…
Make attendance a meetings a priority
Arrive on time and stay for the entire meeting
Bring new ideas, relevant information, and evidence of action item completion (did you do the bare minimum that you might be called out on or did you genuinely make a good effort to collect and bring this back to the team?
Actively participate and contribute…
Seek understanding and presume positive intent
Model and maintain a safe, productive climate for discussions
Be mindful of your own verbal and non-verbal communication
Address guiding principle violations – did Robin do something that violated the Guiding principles and did I let it go to avoid a bit of uncomfort?
Use law, research and data to guide discussions and decisions

37. Effective Teaming & Problem Solving Assessment

38. New Meeting Mechanics Manual
New Section: Effective Teaming
Meeting Essentials
Meeting Practices
Individual Meeting Accountability
Meeting Mechanics Process
Meeting Mechanics Resources
Guiding Principles
Visual Organizers & Tools

39. Guiding Principles
All Ideas are Good Ideas – (no they are not, but what this means is…)
Talk to the Board – (describe in detail what that looks like)
Refrain from defending, convincing, or monopolizing -

40. Addressing Violations

41. Visual Organizers & Supporting Tools
Meeting Topic
Supporting Tools/Visual Organizers
Weekly Team Meeting
Meeting Agenda
Behavior
ABC
Behavior Response Script
Academic Planning
Differentiated Output
Adult Support Needs
Paraprofessional Planning
Case Conference
Passport and Peers
Transition
Collaborative Transition
Manual: you can use any of these visual organizers to structure your meetings… it’s when you get stuck that meeting mechanics/problem solving process needs to be used.

42. New Meeting Mechanics Manual
New Section: Effective Teaming
Meeting Essentials
Meeting Practices
Individual Meeting Accountability
Meeting Mechanics Process
Meeting Mechanics Resources
Guiding Principles
Visual Organizers & Tools

43. Steps of Meeting Mechanics
Data
Problem Identification
Problem Specification
Idea Generation
Brainstorm
Cluster and Prioritize
Implementation
Implementation Variables
Action Plan Development
VISUAL ORGANIZER
Time Keeper, Facilitator, Notetaker

44. Problem Identification
Is this a problem worth working on?
(photo)
Flipchart…. If you have a genuine problem, you just might have an action plan when you leave here.
Problem Identification: do we have a problem worth working on… can it be resolved… discussion continues.
5 minutes to talk about a problem….

45. Problem Specification
(photo)
Specify what your problem is .. When how often what does the data says? This might be the place where we decide do we need to collect more data before moving forward.. But usually you have a situation where you may choose to collect more data, but you need a plan beginning tomorrow. 5 minutes - go

46. Brainstorming (photo)
Talk about the adult behavior. Take a little more time with this.

47. Cluster & Prioritize
(photo)

48. Implementation Variables
This is the very first time that discussion about barriers can be addressed.

49. Action Plan Development
Who will do what… action plan…

50. What will you take back and do right away?
Talk at your table
The biggest impact right away will be….

51. Amanda Foster & Shaun Balhorn
Differentiation Fair
Amanda Foster & Shaun Balhorn
Introduce ourselves

53. Personal Curriculum Examples
Robin Macleish

54. Top Takeaway
Differentiation Fair
Personal Curriculum

55. Data Tracking Using Google Forms
Brenda Vaughan-Ide and Denis Mayowski

56. Top Takeaway
Data Tracking with Google Forms
Reflection on the Day

57. At your next RCN meeting, talk about your Takeaway Ideas

60. Slide Show Running During Lunch

62. Buildings with Peer to Peer
815
Buildings with Peer to Peer
16,825
Peer Support Students
4,530
Students
with ASD

63. Find START on Social Media
Facebook STARTProjectMI
Closed RCN Group (START Project – RCN Group)
Hashtag: #STARTProject

65. START Connecting

66. Upcoming Training Registration Open Peer to Peer Support
December 10 & 11, 2018
Kellogg Center
Registration Open

67. 18th Annual START Conference Spring Leadership 2019
Upcoming Kellogg Center in East Lansing
18th Annual START Conference
Michelle Garcia Winner & Jed Baker
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Spring Leadership 2019
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019

68. Upcoming Training February 8, 2019 Kellogg Center, Lansing
Using the PEERS® Model as a Basis for
Teaching Social Skills to Teens with ASD
February 8, 2019
Kellogg Center, Lansing
Registration Open Soon

69. EPLI Trainer Update
For Current and Prospective Trainers April 10th :30 – 3:30 Crowne Plaza Grand Rapids

70. See the START Events Page for open RCN Training Events
Fall RCN Events
Winter RCN Events