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We provide a wide range of technical assistance to the Maine Department of Education, including facilitating and staffing the Governor’s Task Force to Engage Maine’s Youth; and technical assistance to support the Department in meeting the legislative requirements of a bill to keep "highly mobile" students in school, that passed as a result of the work of the Task Force; facilitating and supporting the Special Purpose Private Schools Rate Setting Consensus Panel; a study group for The Educational Bill of Rights for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children; providing fiscal agent support to the Maine Reading Recovery Network; policy review and analysis; and professional development, including an annual Winter Retreat for Maine educators. www.mainesupportnetwork.org
This is a six-year effort that we are administering for the Maine Department of Education. It is leveraging Maine’s advanced technological infrastructure to create a sustainable program that supports economically disadvantaged students in preparing for, accessing, and succeeding in postsecondary education. We are working in partnership with 18 Maine school districts and numerous other partners to assure that all Maine students have the skills and resources needed to enable them to attend college. www.gearupme.org
The Maine Support Network is the home base for the Maine chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children. CEC is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC’s role is to advocate for appropriate governmental policies, set professional standards, provide continual professional development, advocate for newly and historically under-served individuals with exceptionalities, and help professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice. For more information visit http://www.cec.sped.org
The Maine Support Network designs and provides quality professional development that celebrates and supports the work of educators. We provide a wide variety of technical assistance, support, and professional development, upon request, to meet the regional needs of schools and agencies across the state. The Network will work with you to create personalized interactive workshops for your school, district, or region. www.syntiro.org/divisions/msn.html
Syntiro team members teach about, and model, Celebratory Learning for the Ministry of Education in Singapore each year. We also provide presentations, as well as publication and fiscal agent support, to the International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education. www.syntiro.org, www.iasce.net
The Journeys for Women Initiative lends support, direction, and advocacy for a woman wishing to engage in a journey that will provide learning, respite, and/or revitalization to her life experience. This is a uniquely designed opportunity for a qualified woman to embark on the journey of a lifetime! www.journeysforwomen.org
This new effort, funded by the Maine Department of Education to the Maine Partnership of Partnerships, will be providing professional development, technical assistance, resources, and materials for educators serving children and youth (birth-20) in the area of positive behavioral supports. We will be working in four regions of the state initially, in collaboration with CACE, WCC, NWP and PREP. www.mepbis.org
This new effort, funded by the Maine Department of Education, is designed to provide professional development and support in Response to Intervention (RtI) systems design and implementation in the seven RSUs located in the Western Maine Partnership membership area. Two RSUs will serve as pilot sites in year one: RSU 10 and RSU 38. www.syntiro.org/riss
The Maine Department of Education awarded the Maine Support Network four Open Educational Resources grants. These grants were awarded in the following content areas: Math, Health Education and Physical Education, World Languages, and Career Education and Development. These exciting projects will bring together teams of educators to identify high-quality Open Educational Resources in each of the above content areas. These resources will be posted on Learncentral.org and other websites for easy access. www.syntiro.org/oer
 Governor's Task Force to Engage Maine's Youth &
 Maine Department of Education Diploma
The Governor's Task Force to Engage Maine's Youth led to the creation of new Public Law 451, a Maine Department of Education Diploma. If you would like more information about this law and how it can help youth who are experiencing education disruption, please visit www.mdoediploma.com.
is home to two initiatives funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau: Integrated Services, and Healthy & Ready to Work. It is also home to the EN Ticket to Work program.
Integrated Community Systems for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs in Maine is designed to assure that Maine’s children and youth with special health care needs (CSHN) and their families have access to an integrated, community based system of care achieving the goals of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s six National Performance Measures. www.servicesforme.org Maine State CSHN website: http://maine.gov/dhhs/boh/cshn/cshn/index.html
The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is an employment program for people with disabilities who are interested in going to work. The Ticket Program is part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 – legislation designed to remove many of the barriers that previously influenced people’s decisions about going to work due to concerns such as loss of health care coverage. The goal of the Ticket Program is to increase opportunities and choices for Social Security disability beneficiaries to obtain employment, vocational rehabilitation (VR), and other support services from public and private providers, employers, and other organizations.
Under the Ticket Program, the Social Security Administration provides disability beneficiaries with a Ticket that may be used to obtain jobs, and the services they need, with the help of a new universe of organizations called Employment Networks (ENs).
As an EN, MSN will be responsible for the actual delivery of services, or the coordination/referral of services, to Social Security beneficiaries (SSI or SSDI recipients) interested in entering, or returning to, the workforce, and who assign their ticket to us. www.yourtickettowork.com
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Celebratory Learning Around the World
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