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Stimulating the National Dialogue Around Culturally Responsive Systems. The IDEA Partnership www.ideapartnership.org 1-877 IDEA-INFo. Dialogue: New Opportunities to Build Shared Meaning Across Groups. What Do We Mean by ‘Dialogue’?.
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Stimulating the National Dialogue Around Culturally Responsive Systems The IDEA Partnership www.ideapartnership.org 1-877 IDEA-INFo
Dialogue: New Opportunities to Build Shared Meaning Across Groups
Dialogue Guides: Bridging Differences in Knowledge and Perspective The Partnership Effort • Move from ‘getting’ information to ‘using’ information • Build ‘personal meaning’ from information • Appreciate differencesin the way issues impact various groups • Build connectionsaround shared interests • Learn about differences to help shape common messages and action • Work with existing Technical Assistance (TA) Centers to maximize the resources • Work with organizations and states to sponsor dialogue around issues
How Are We Stimulating the National Dialogue Around Culturally Responsive Systems? • Bringing Stakeholders Together Around Common Interests • In states • In organizations • Creating Tools to Support Dialogue • Building Relationships that Can Support Deeper Work
First Thoughts Build relationships that undergird real change Develop connections to extensive and deep networks Create customized messages Share aligned messages Become allies around common interests Extend the capacity to the state and /or local district efforts by drawing on existing networks Emerging Sense issues before critical points Specify the dimensions of an issue with those impacted Identify shared interests Move beyond organizational positions to shared interests Unite the state and the stakeholders around common goals Introduce two–way learning Where Is the‘Value Added ‘by Engaging the Stakeholders?
How Can We Support aNational Dialogueon Culturally Responsive Systems? Web-based Tools • Guides on important documents • Written by stakeholders for stakeholders • Intent to develop additional guides on important documents in collaboration with states and national organizations Organizational Connections • Encourage state affiliates and local members to sponsor dialogue on the issues State Connections • Encourage states that work with the Partnership to sponsor dialogue routinely, as part of their work • Use insights gained through Dialogue to create new opportunities and reach out to new partners
Your Insights What can your organization or state do to promoteDialogue around culturally responsive systems? As you consider follow-up to this meeting, how can Dialoguetools help you? Can you identify additional Dialogue Guides that need to be written?
Writing Dialogue Guides • The Source Document • The Executive Summary, if needed • The Dialogue Starters • The Facilitators’ Handbook
Walking Through an Example Source Document from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs • IDEA Reauthorized Statute: Disproportionality and Overidentification Topical Brief and Dialogue Starter questions available at: http://www.ideapartnership.org/partnership5a1.cfm?osepid=9 • Facilitators’ Handbook available at http://www.ideapartnership.org/documents/Dialogue_Guide_Facilitator_Handbook.pdf
Source Documents for Today’s Work NCCRESt Practitioner Brief Series • Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions (Garcia and Ortiz, 2004) • Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents (Artiles and Harry, 2004) • Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem (Coutinho and Oswald, 2004) • Addressing Diversity in Schools: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Richards, Brown and Forde, 2004)
