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Facilitating CommunicationAmong Our Members

Michigan Association of State and Federal Program Specialists

NEWS & VIEWS YOU CAN USE

http://www.masfps.orgKey Issues in 2011

BY MAx FUlkErSONlansin Schoo DistictConessiona repesentative, Distict 8

s we sa oodbe to eectio seaso ad ook

ahead to schoo impoemet pai

season, lets reect on what it means to

be ethica eaed i a pocess ad a

membe of a team.

Two simiaities come to mid whe

thiki about eectios ad a paets oe i educatio:

both equie peope to be ioed i a decisiomaki

process, and many people are dissatised with the

pocess.

I the case of eectios, the cout is tei

Washito, D.C., to chae b sedi diffeet

epesetaties. The, Washito, D.C., is tei the

cout to chae b setti futue eiibiit coditios

fo competitie fedea educatioa awads. The otes

ae epoti to the oemet that thei eatioship

with the peope is dissatisfacto ad eeds to chae.

I eese diectio, the oemet is epoti to the

peope that ou schoos

ae usatisfacto ad that

we, i pateship with

studets paets, eed to

chae them if we wat to

cotiue eceii fedea

ats.

Educatos must focus o buidi bette eatioships

with paets. Ioica, we ca do so b eai fom

a pesetatio at the 2010 MAS/FPS Fa Diectos

Istitute

Oe of the keote speakes caed out the audiece SEE PArEnTS On PAgE 2

Paenta invovement in education is so impotant. Paentsshoudnt et invoved just because thei chids head is neaycoveed in sand they shoud be invoved fom eay in the chidseducationa caee. This is a hue ey fo success.

Inside

We Need Parents Involved.........................Page 1

Message from the President

.........................Page 3UP Institute Advertisement

.........................Page 4The President spoke at mygraduation ceremony!

.........................Page 5Another kind of G.P.S.

.........................Page 6Congressman at Title I Event

.........................Page 7Monitoring andevaluation of programs atWayneWestland

.........................Page 8

fo thei ioace of

cetai poitica aces. He

said that if we dot kow

the cadidates fo Seceta

of State o Supeme Cout

Justice, we shoud pobab

just sta home o eectio

da.

He suested thouh

his wods ad demeao

that we wee ot committed

to fu paticipati i

the poitica pocess ad

ou owee ioemet

Collaboration withparents will help usreinvent education.


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woud mee su the impotat busiess at had.

The person wont be identied by name, but he has a

poitica show o pubic teeisio ad his ast ame

hmes with ubic. Whie ma fet his pesetatio

was ood, some audiece membes fet beat up adisuted.

Paets miht fee the same wa as the come

ito ou schoos ad t to be moe ioed i thei

childs education, specically as members of school

impoemet teams.

The ae cofoted

by authority gures

with a deeoped ee

of specied knowledge

which ofte the paetsdo ot shae. The

ae tod the shoud

paticipate, but the ae

made to fee iadequate

fo ot kowi eouh

to cotibute to the

decisiomaki pocess.

Shocki, some

paets idicate that the

wee ot wecomed ito the coaboatie oup adscaffoded thouh the schoo impoemet pocess, but

istead the fet discouaed ad beitted.

Afte istei to M. rubics speech, ma of us

ma bette udestad what the paets wee taki

about. Afte a, we hae poitica paties so that we

dot hae to be famiia with ee cadidate et sti

meaifu paticipate i the pocess. Peope fom

poitica paties who shae the samephilosophy we,

its ot ea that adaced. Peope who shae the same

poiticaprincipals oka, thats the wo wod, too.

Peope who hae simia ideas about oemet idetif

with a commo patfom ad otes ca do thei ciic

dut b idetifi with a pat ad oti fo those

cadidates i thei pat.

We dot eed to kow the histo of ee peso

running for ofce to be involved in a positive way. Mr.

rubic did ot eed to chastise us fo ou ioace ad

cetai was ot buidi a coaboatie eatioship

with aoe i the audiece to accompish somethi.

PArEnT InvOlvEMEnT FrOM PAgE 1likewise, paets eed ot be immesed i cuicua,

pedao, ad pubished schoo efom eseach to

cotibute to the schoo impoemet pocess. Its ot

thei faut the dot kow the theoies of Mazao

ad Daett ad the cetai shoudt be made to

fee iadequate o embaassed fo it. M. rubic coud

hae used his time to educate his audiece about the

cadidates, o faciitate a discussio o impotat poic

decisios ou ew epesetaties wi face. Istead, he

paed otcha ad aieated hudeds of peope fo ot

kowi as much as he did.

I ou schoos, whe we hae time i fot of a

paet, we eed to see

it as a oppotuit to

educate them ad eist

thei suppot. We eed

to wecome them ad

make them fee safeeouh (emotioa,

pschooica) to shae

thei stoies ad expess

thei opiios. If educatos

ae to coaboate with

paets to reinvent ou

schoos, the we must

respect paets so that

whe we show them espect, the ecoize it as euie

Ufotuate, educatos aso compai that paetswot come to a the meetis ad that the dot kow

athi about teachi ad eai.

The sto oes that we educatos dedicate ou ies

to eai ad dot wat amateus udemii o

questioi impotat decisios. Ad paets sese this

attitude as we, which is wh the thee upset at how

thee teated ad used as a ubbe stamp to meet at

compiace. Thus, ou effots to each out to paets

ae ebuffed because ou eatioships with them ae so

fequet damaed, o oexistet.Befoe we ca ee stat to pictue eieted schoos,

we must rst picture reinvented relationships between

educatos ad paets. This is whee the task becomes

chaei. Chai peceptios, attitudes, ad

behavior is difcult, as ethical answers are not always

data die. Fotuate, a umbe of us had some

pofessioa deeopmet at the MAS/FPS Fa Diectos

Istitute. Athouh coute ituitie fo educatos,

exempa paet poams shoud ot foow the rubic

Parents neednot be immersed

in curricula,pedagogy, and

published schoolreform research

to contributeto the schoolimprovement

process.



Ou chae as a schoo sstem is

to focus o teachi studets so

that eai happes. Whethewe ae woki with studets who

ae stui eaes, o who ae

excei, I beiee it is a best pactice

to commuicate studet eai

expectatios, both eba ad i

witte fom. Studets eed to kow

thei destiatio, ad how the ae

doi towad eachi that destiatio.

Giving specic feedback to students

about thei poess towad masteiexpectations is crucial. To me, specic

is ot a ette ade, o is it a

pecetae. rathe it is commuicati

what pats of the expectatios wee

masteed, ad what expectatios wee

missed patia o compete.

Specic critical feedback best

occus i the fom of the datoda

coesatios betwee studet ad

staff membes. Studets eed the

oppotuit to kow what the aied

and what they need to x. Obviously,

expectatios icease i compexit

as studets ow, maki it at times

a chaee fo staff membes to

commuicate iticate expectatios

to studets i a cocete mae.

Staff membes who eae i

pofessioa coesatios with each

othe miht discuss coectie what

exact studets shoud kow, ad

how studets wi demostate thei

eai. The miht bi sampes of

student work, and discuss how specic

feedback miht be deieed to studets

so that studets ae moe motiated

to maste the expectatios to a hihe

ee. Teachi studets to sefassess

Messae fomthe Pesident

Michee Buey lemie

The Infome is a pubicationof MAS/FPS. The infomation

contained within aims atinfomin the schoo and

community membes aboutevents both past and futue

within the oanizationscommunity.

Pesident:

Michee Buey lemie

PesidentEect:Tom reede

Immediate Past Pesident:Paua Danies

Secetay:Wiye Piott

Teasue:Sam Ewin

Eecutive Secetay:Saa Shive

The Infome Edito:ric Heitmeye

Mission:

Empowein

eades to

impement

effective State

and Fedea

poams to

incease

student

achievement.

Michigan Association of State andFederal Program Specialists

usi ubics ad/

o questioi is

aothe wa touse eadmade

feedback.

Fia, paets

aso eed to kow

about the studet

eai oas

so that the ca

effectie suppot

schoowok at

home. Specic information about theirchids poess is aso ecessa, i

additio to ades ad pecetaes,

for parents to help to x their childs

miscoceptios. It aso ies paets a

oppotuit to paise studets fo the

exact this the hae masteed. This

oes wa beod ood job o B. no

matte how ou iteact with studets,

coside how ou commuicate

expectatios. Ae ou bei csta

clear? Are you providing specic

feedback to motiate studets?

geat esouces I hae foud to

be hepfu ae two books etited,

Classroom Instruction that Works,

b Mazao, Pickei, ad Poack;

adA Handbook for Instruction

that Works, b Mazao, nofod,

Pate, Pickei, ad gadd. I these

books, ie (9) effectie stateies ae

hihihted ad descibed ad ca be

used to teachANYcotet aea ad/

o withi a ade ee. Whie these

books hae bee out fo seea eas

ow, I beiee that the ifomatio is

tied ad tue. If the ae ew to ou

check them out! If ou hae them o

ou bookshef, take aothe ook.


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Another kind ofg.P.S. tool:Guiding Parents to Success

The keote speake D. Do Batette was the

hihiht of the cofeece. Batette shaed his

expeieces as a natie Ameica chid who ew

up with seee speech ad phsica hadicaps i a

eiomet of poet, chid abuse, fami ioece,

acism, homeessess, ad acohoism.

Athouh his audiece was ofte i teas as he tod hisheatwechi ad heatwami sto, Batette

was abe to hep the audiece ecoe b istii

in listeners a sense of efcacy in their ability to help

chide oecome temedous hadships.

BY kArON E. YEAgErkaamazoo Pubic SchoosConessiona repesentative, Distict 6

ses of goba Positioi Sstem

toos aue the ease ad utiit of thei

g.P.S. istumets. Appopiate used, a

g.P.S. uit ca sae time, ee, ad

fustatio. likewise, the aua Tite I

Paet Cofeece, g.P.S. guidi Paets

to Success, hed o Api 13, 2010, was iteded toassist paets, sae time, ee, ad aoid some of the

fustatios associated with the chaees of aisi

chide to become academicapepaed, cotibuti

aduts.

The cofeece, sposoed b the Kaamazoo Pubic

Schools Title I Parent Ofce, included participants

fom the eiht schoo disticts ad oe chate schoo

withi the 6th U.S. Coessioa Distict

ad the Kaamazoo reioa

Educatioa Seice Aec(KrESA) aea. The cofeece

was fuded b the McKie

veto Homeess Studets

Assistace Act, the Kaamazoo

Pubic Schoos Tite I Poam,

ad Deek Jetes Tu 2

Foudatio.

Sessio topics icuded:

Why Do They Act That Way?

(A Survival Guide to theAdolescent Brain);Where Do

I Go and What Do I Do?; Social

and Recreational Programs

for Youth; Positive Parenting

Strategies; Working With Your

Writer; Domestic Assault/ Signs

of Child Abuse; CSI Cyber

Safety Initiative; ad Prevention

Works.



BY kArON E. YEAgEr

kaamazoo Pubic SchoosConessiona repesentative, Distict 6

Coessma Fed Upto, who

epesets the 6th U.S. Coessioa

Distict, joied Tite I paets

dui the Kaamazoo Pubic Schoos Tite

I Educational Treasure Hunt o Jue 3.

Aso attedi with the Coessma wee

his Kalamazoo district ofce representative

Ed Sacke ad Weste Michia Uiesit

summe ite Mitch Zajac.

Membes of the Kaamazoo Tite I Paet

Cops Poam eaed the oppotuit

to seect educatioa mateias at a oca

bookstoe ad a teache supp stoe fo thei

chide ad themsees b competi tasks

thouhout the past schoo ea.

Parents selected a task in each of ve CHIPS cateoies: Commuicatio,

Hepfuess, Ifomatio, Pofessioaism, ad Sefdeeopmet. Exampes of

tasks seected ad accompished b Paet Cops membes ae isted beow.

Congressman Fred Uptonparticipates in Title I event

Communication

reguay ifom othe paets/guadias of specia eetsad actiities occuig at schoo

Actiey paticipate as a membe of buidigee teams(Schoo Impoemet, PTA/PTO, Adisoy Committees)

Helpfulness

Be actiey ioed with staff i the paig of oe of theschoos educatioa eets (liteacy night, Math night,Kidegate Oietatio)

Poide academic tutoia suppot to a eighbos o fiedschid

Information

As a Paet Cops schoo team, deeop ad/o maitai aaea fo Tite I paets to access ifomatio suppied by Tite

I Parent Ofce staff lea ad shae what the schoo distict has to offe paets

Professionalism

See as a oe mode fo studets ad othe aduts thoughcotiuig educatio

Visit the Title I Parent Ofce Lending Library and Parentroom at east mothy

Self

development

Set a sefimpoemet goa (impoe compute skis, ead abook mothy)

Set a famiy goa (tu off Tv to sped time with chide,pay games, ead togethe)

Pictued above ae Tite I Educationa Teasue Hunt Paent Copspaticipants,Conessman Fed Upton (cente), and his summe inten(top ow, eft).



Afte a ecet O Site reiew (OSr), the

WaeWestad Commuit Schoos

was peased to eceie a epot that o

equied oe (1) chae b the Michia

Depatmet of Educatio. That chae

deat with ceati a moe succict

pocess with which poams woud be

moitoed ad eauated.

WaeWestads appoach fo

compiace was twofod: 1) a buidis

ad the distict must compete a tabe

that asks very specic questions (see

gure 1) and 2) for each program listed in

the tabe, a Poam Eauatio Summa

Fom must be competed. The foowi

themes makeup the moitoi ad

eauatio pocess:

1. Poam Tite

2. Poam Outcomes3. Fudi Souce

4. Data Coectio Method

5. Data Ted Aasis

6. Poam recommedatio

7. Competio of the Summa

Eauatio Fom

Wayne-Westland Community School District

Program Evaluation Form

Executive Summary

Department of Instruction

This document should serve as a summary of findings and perceptions for programming that has beenfunded through Federal (Title I, II et al) State (31 a) or local funds.

Evaluator (s): _______________________Program/PD Title: ____________________

Funding Source: __________________Date: _______________

1. As a result of the supplementary intervention program or training what outcomes were determined?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. After a review of the data, what trends seemed to emerge. Data utilized should include checklists,empirical observations, State assessments, local assessments, perception surveys, and outside evaluationand consultation?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Does the district or school plan to continue with the program? How did you reach this conclusion?Please provide a rationale.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Please share additional comments (optional).__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

WayneWestands poam evauation summay fom, which can be downoadedfom www.masfps.o.

WayneWestands hosted a woshop focused on monitoin and evauation ofedea poams to impove the schoos State & Fedea opeations.

Monitoin and evauationof fedea poams atWayneWestand

SEE WAynE On PAgE 9



Buidi picipas ae equied to eiew poams ad

submit the attached sheet o ate tha

Api 1. Fo each poam

descibed, a poam

eauatio summa fom

must be competed as we.The poam eauatio

has bee ceated i ode

to poide auditos ad the

Distict with a snapshotof a

poams success o decisio

to discotiue a poam.

I this wa, Wae Westad

makes meaifu decisios

about the moitoi ad

eauatio of distict ad buidipoams. If ou hae a

questios eadi the Wae

Westad pocess of poam

eauatio pease cotact Pau

Saah at (734) 4192092 o emai at

[email protected].

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