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Check out our 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 here.

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Upcoming NH Connections Events

May 15, Fremont

National PTA Standards as a tool for family-school partnerships

Who We Are

NH Connections is a project funded by the Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education 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 special 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!

Extended- The Parent Involvement Survey in Special Education Deadline!

Have you been meaning to send in your Parent Involvement Survey? Well good news! The deadline has been extended! Please take a few minutes and complete it and send it in to Measurement Incorporated now! The annual survey provides important information that will help the NH DOE support schools in working effectively with families of children with disabilities. Do you need help with the survey? Contact Christine Luke at 1-800-330-1420 ext. 202 or cluke@measinc.com.

See the Flyer!

Welcome to
NH Connections!

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The Deadline for the NH Department of Education Parent Involvement Survey for Special Education has been extended!

Send in your survey responses ASAP. If you have questions, contact Christina Luke at Measurement Incorporated Evaluation Services, cluke@measinc.com or   1-800-330-1420 ext. 202.

 

How to Increase Parent Participation
in the Parent Involvement Survey

• Case Managers and automated call systems can phone families and remind them about the survey and deadline.
• Set up a computer lab to allow parents to come in and submit their survey online  and get to know each other.
• Post information on the school website, put an article in the newsletters that go home, or send a flyer home.
• Discuss the survey at school meetings and school sponsored events (IEP meetings, performances, trainings, etc.).
• Share school actions and responses to previous survey results.

The 2010 - 2011 results of the NH Department of Education
Parent Involvement Special Education Survey data is in!