Marketplace of Strategies Using Partnership Collections and Users Guides October 20, 2009 Marriott City Center Salt Lake City, UT On screen when participants come into room. IDEA Partnership @ NASDSE 2009

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Each Users Guide/Collection Contains… Needs of the Field Essential Elements Guiding Principles Grounding Assumptions Dialogue Guides Fact Sheet Glossary Power Point(s) & Presenter’s Guide Pat IDEA Partnership @ NASDSE 2009 3

Collaborative Efforts and Uses Developed by cross-stakeholder group representative of IDEA Partnership organizations SEAs TA Centers Ensuring a range of roles at all levels of the education system and from geographic locations across the United States Uses Helene & Christy IDEA Partnership @ NASDSE 2009

Partnership Collections Provide efficient access to and use of research and materials regarding a specific topic of importance Available to people at all knowledge levels Bridging tool to make research more tangible to those in the field A comprehensive collection of materials and resources Christy IDEA Partnership @ NASDSE 2009

Users Guides: Bridging tool to provide efficient access to and use of research and materials located on a Federal Technical Assistance (TA) Center website Christy IDEA Partnership @ NASDSE 2009

Current availability… National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) Evidence-based Practice Users Guide Available now at www.ideapartnership.org National Center on Instruction Users Guide Collections in Process Transition Creating Agreement Autism Expanded RTI Collection Mary IDEA Partnership @ CASE 2009

Future Collections… UDL (Universal Design for Learning) Early Childhood Mary IDEA Partnership @ NASDSE 2009

Interactive Discussion How do you perceive the Collections and Users Guides being used in your state? What might your role be in this process? What do you need from NASDSE to support this effort? Christy IDEA Partnership @ NASDSE 2009