Community of Practice & Workgroups

Topic: Authentic access to meaningful instruction and demonstration of learning in general education classes.

Carol Quirk continued to share data, recommendations, and lessons learned around Authentic Access to Meaningful Instruction and Learning in General Education Classes. Please see this video if you missed the previous meeting.

In our SEL Work Group, we will explore the following: 

During December's work group, we split into groups and used the 9 Why's exercise to:

1. Get at the root of why you spent time and effort on fidelity data
2. Help you communicate the reason fidelity is important to SPDG participants. 

Results:

Group 1: 

• Define what fidelity is in the context of the SPDG

• How to utilize SDPG fidelity data

December’s Directors’ Webinar featured two SPDGs. Georgia described their work with universities in partnership with the CEEDAR Center and Illinois showed the data they use to get their Advisory Board discussions going.

Tammy Lysons and Jennifer Coffey facilitate the following agenda: 

• Welcoming new members
• Homework: Reading wars & science of reading
• Making a need or impact real for people
• Building on identity
• Sharing communication plans

Resources Shared: