The document discusses the role of systems conveners in complex landscapes of practice. It describes how the IDEA Partnership demonstrates the value of stakeholder engagement, uses existing networks to build engagement at multiple levels, and bridges boundaries between groups. It discusses the multiple dimensions of complexity involved, including stakeholders, scales, sources of knowledge and authority. It provides examples of issues the IDEA Partnership addresses and the types of interventions used, such as communities of practice, meetings, and tools. Specific examples of behavioral health and transition communities of practice are described. The document asks if roles like sensing, brokering, modeling and more are recognized and provides information about the IDEA Partnership website.

1. Systems Convening in the
Complex Landscapes of Practice
October 20 2014
IDEA Partnership@NASDSE 2014

2. Systems conveners in
landscapes of practice
IDEA Partnership@NASDSE 2014

3. 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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5. Multiple Dimensions of Complexity
Multiple …
• Stakeholders
• Levels of scale
• Dimensions
• Sources of
knowledge
• Sources of authority
• Sources of influence
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6. Multiple Levels of Scale

7. 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-face
Routine calls and online
interaction
 Practice Groups on issues
(cross-role)

8. Stories of Interventions in the Landscape
Behavioral Health Community of Practice
• National Meeting and Practice Group Activities
• Webinars
• Youth Lens Project
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9. Stories of Interventions in the Landscape
Transition Community of Practice
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• Capacity Building Institute
• Webinars
• Least Restrictive Environment
(LRE) & Transition tool

10. Our Current View on Convener Roles:
Do you recognize them in what we described today?
Sensing
Brokering
Modeling
Emerging
- TBD
Coaching
Reflecting
Designing

11. ideapartnership.org
What’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