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Technical Assistance Plan Highlights Joy Zabala

Technical Assistance Plan Highlights Joy Zabala. T. The TA Charge. To provide technical assistance to State and local educational agencies and other stakeholders to improve the implementation of NIMAS

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Technical Assistance Plan Highlights Joy Zabala

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  1. Technical Assistance Plan Highlights Joy Zabala T

  2. The TA Charge • To provide technical assistance to State and local educational agencies and other stakeholders • to improve the implementation of NIMAS • (2) to develop and implement unified distribution systems in SEAs that result in timely delivery of high-quality AIM to all children with disabilities who need them

  3. AIM Center Objectives • Knowledge Development; • Technical Assistance and Dissemination, • Leadership and Coordinated Activities

  4. NCAIM Technical Assistance Activities • Work directly with SEAs to ensure that distribution systems are high-quality and deliver AIM in a timely manner • Provide a continuum of general TA and dissemination activities to assist SEAs • Prepare and disseminate reports, documents, practice guides, and other materials • Maintain a Web site

  5. Technical Assistance Recipients • SEAs, LEAs other constituent groups as needed to reach expected outcomes • Primary recipient: SEA, who will, in turn provide support to LEAs, families, and others in a way that is aligned to state policies, procedures, and guidelines.

  6. Approaches • Proactive – • Produces and services scalable and useful to a broad range of constituents • Reactive • Direct responses to expressed need of a constituent Just in Time! Just for You!

  7. Methods • Direct • Involve the provider at the time that the TA is taking place • Indirect • Involve the TA provider during development and update

  8. Proactive Technical Assistance Just in Time! • Developing and maintaining • Web-based multimedia knowledge base • Multiple Webinars focused on topics of high interest and need of specific constituents • Collaborative conference sessions and seminars • Communication system for collaboration and information sharing among constituents.

  9. Reactive Technical Assistance • Requests in three categories • Can be taken care of immediately - answer and/or refer • Require more time and follow-up - discussion, research, collaboration • Require referral to other source - Fall outside of the NCAIM scope of work Just for You!

  10. Intensive TA to Identified States • Mirrors the communication services provided to the AIM Consortium • Participation in a closed electronic mailing list • Regularly scheduled teleconferences • Other services to be developed based on the emerging needs of the selected states

  11. Sharing your wisdom • What criteria should be used to identify states for intensive TA ? • Contacts • What needs to be in place

  12. It is difficult to say what is impossible…for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow • Robert Goddard

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