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Welcome to IDEA Partnership's Collaborative Work on Creating Agreement
The IDEA Partnership is dedicated to improving outcomes for students and youth with disabilities by joining state agencies and stakeholders through shared work and learning. This dedication has been operationalized in the collaborative work on Creating Agreement of 12 partner organization representatives, two technical assistance providers, and a number of state and local organizations and agencies. Click here to see the Creating Agreement Collection participants.
Members of this Creating Agreement collaborative work group represent a range of roles at all levels of the education system as well as coming from geographic locations from across the United States. Together with the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), these partners form a community with the potential to transform the way we work.
Creating Agreement is a proactive, relationship building and problem solving process with broad application to cross stakeholder groups. This process was pioneered by the Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE) to increase the nation’s capacity to effectively resolve special education disputes and reduce the use of expensive adversarial processes.
- Our Charge is to think about Creating Agreement from stakeholder perspectives at all knowledge levels, to look at things differently, and to speak to practical application by taking the ideas of researchers and making them tangible to those in the field.
- Our Goal is to provide you with access to a comprehensive collection of materials and resources to assist you in furthering understanding of creating agreement processes. We hope this collection complements your current work, and we encourage you to share it with your colleagues and peers.
- PowerPoint and Presenter Guide
Building Partnerships, Creating Agreement: Collaborative Problem Solving in Early Intervention and Special Education--PowerPoint
Building Partnerships, Creating Agreement: Accessing and Using the Materials in the Collection --Presenter Guide
The following key elements are covered in the PowerPoint and Guide:
Costs of Conflict
Value of conflict
Positions & interests
Listening & communication
Power imbalance & cultural reciprocity
Student Involvement
Conflict resolution styles
Conflict resolution options
Resources
Dialogue Guides for the Creating Agreement Collection
Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders.. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences in States and districts. In this manner, stakeholders all over the country can begin interacting in new ways around implementation issues. Each dialogue guide title has questions written specifically for a target audience by representatives of that audience.
Your Voice
Your experiences help the Partnership and our readers understand issues and perspectives. Please take a minute to share:
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Your Creating Agreement initiative and the strategies involved
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What strategies are working and reasons for success
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What problems (barriers) you have encountered and how they were solved
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How you promote Creating Agreement initiative across groups and organizations.
To help us understand how the Partnership collection is useful, please take a minute to share:
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How you used the collection
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Your reactions to the collection
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Your ideas for improving the collection
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