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NEW updated calendar to the right, visit your region's home page by clicking on the map on the right or find contact information for your area
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Links for Upcoming NH Connections Events
North Country, January 24, 2012, Berlin NH
Parent Leadership Training, Feb., 2, 9, 16, 2012 Exeter NH
Merrimack:
February 9, 6 - 8
Claremont:
February 22, 5 - 7
Strategies for using the results of the NH DOEs Parent Involvement Survey in Special Ed. in your school/district.
February 16, 6:30 - 8.
Join us in Concord for a discussion about the DOE's parent survey regarding special education
Who We Are
NH Connections is a project funded by the Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education in response to the meet the need of schools/school district personnel for information and resources on effective ways to enhance strategies to create and sustain partnerships among school personnel and parents of children with disabilities and their families.
Members of the NH Connections team are also available to provide technical assistance to speacial education directors, coordinators, teachers and parents of children with disabilities and their families in their child's school and learning development.
Call your area's NH Connections Facilitator today to discuss how you can be creating or strengthening partnerships in special education. Let's work together as we move forward to improve parent and family engagement!
Parent Leadership Training Scheduled for Exeter
February 2, 9, 16, 2012
5 - 8 p.m.
NH Connections facilitator Marlene Marchand and Project Director Michelle Lewis recently facilitated a Parent Leadership Training (PLT) in Whitefield NH to promote strengthening family-school partnerships in special education in the northern county. The PLT in Special Education gives parents of children with disabilities skills to assume leadership positions on their children's school teams, on parent support groups, and to support school personnel. The training helps to build bridges.
"One high point of the training was when Michelle asked the group, parents and teachers about their feelings in preparing for an individualized education planning (IEP) meeting. As people began to share their feelings there was a real "aha" moment that the groups experience similar feelings and they all have the children's best interests at heart", Marchand noted. Seventeen people registered for the training that focused on building relationships and working together, not working in silos.
The three session series ended with a Leadership Challenge that continued to build on helping each other see both sides of issues, and discussing a strong leader's characteristics. Lewis said, "We examined what leadership is. Problems can be what get people motivated, to feel the fire in their belly; however what opportunities do they see to develop stronger family-school community? A fire in the belly yes, but also the motivation and energy to make a change. It's not about the leader - good leaders surround themselves with people with many good skills." Read full article about Whitefield Training.
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NH Connections!
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The Parent Involvement Survey:
Results are In!
The NH Department of Education Bureau of Special Educations' Parent Involvement Special Education Survey data is in!
Click here for the report and more information.
NH Connections Facilitators are planning meetings across the State now to discuss results!
