Systems Convening in the Complex Landscapes of Practice

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Systems conveners in landscapes of practice

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IDEA Partnership

• Demonstrates the value of broad stakeholder engagement in influencing changes in practice

• Uses the networks that already exist in national organizations to build stakeholder engagement at national, state, and local levels

• Bridges the boundaries that separate those who should be working together to achieve real inclusion for individuals with disabilities

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Multiple Dimensions of Complexity

Multiple …• Stakeholders• Levels of scale• Dimensions• Sources of

knowledge• Sources of authority• Sources of influence

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Multiple Levels of Scale

Interventions in the Landscape

What issues bring us together?

• School-based Behavioral Health

• Transition from School to College and Career

• Other…• Common Core State Standards• Autism Spectrum Disorder• Cradle to College and Career• Multi-tiered Systems of Support• … and more!

What do we do together?

• Thought Leader meetings and other shared work

• Tools, documents and other co-created activities

• Communities of practice to solve persistent problems

Annual face-to-faceRoutine calls and online

interactionPractice Groups on issues

(cross-role)

Stories of Interventions in the LandscapeBehavioral Health Community of Practice

• National Meeting and Practice Group Activities• Webinars• Youth Lens Project

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Stories of Interventions in the LandscapeTransition Community of Practice

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• Capacity Building Institute• Webinars• Least Restrictive Environment

(LRE) & Transition tool

Our Current View on Convener Roles:Do you recognize them in what we described today?

Sensing

Brokering

Modeling

Coaching

Designing

Reflecting

Emerging- TBD

ideapartnership.orgWhat’s inside?• Essential questions • Tools to improve

communication & skills• Learning activities• Principles that guide

team building• Steps to help

implement change • Rubrics to help

measure progress