Forms and Templates for Creating and Managing Your P4SS Group

Create, maintain and sustain Partnerships for Student Success in Special Education.

Sample templates and forms: NH Connections provides a packet of forms and templates to be used as is or to be customized to your group and school/school district needs. A packet is ready to download today! Word Doc and Docx versions.

Listed below are templates and forms that are available in the packet.

Is your group ready to get started with a Partnership for Student Success in Special Education in your school or school district? Establish effective working relationships for your group by providing professional documents that include your SAU, School Name, Partner names, contact information, and use professional forms and templates that are provided by NH Connections. Take the forms and customize with the appropriate information.

What is included in the packet?
Who is interested in your group and what are their interests? Included in the packet is a Contact and Interest Form for Forming a Partnership for Special Education group. This form helps the group to understand who is interested in the work, when they are available, and more!

Who should know that your P4SSinSE group is being established? This packet includes a sample letter to Raise Your Partnership for Student Success Profile to let others know of your group plans.

Who is attending meetings? The Sample Meeting Sign-in Sheet will help to record all of those participants who attend the meetings and events.

Which groups will receive agendas, meeting minutes, reports, action plans, and progress on Partnerships?Consider and check the family, school and community groups that will receive communication of the partnership team plans and progress. How often will the reports be presented? In what form will the progress and action plans be reported?  (oral report, computerized, phone message, written summary, detailed written summary, detailed written report, newsletter article, press release, website entry, some other form)? Who will make the presentations?

Assess your group work. Survey your group to discover how the participants felt about the meeting. Nice simple questions for each participant to answer with space for the participant to include comments.

Be sure to know and understand the activities that are currently happening in your school or district. Assess your school for activities being worked on around parent involvement. Use the Assessment of School, Family, and Community Activities to guide your assessment. How can your group partner with the current activities?

Using the Six Types of Parent Involvement to Create an Action Plan. Identify a goal for your group. Place the goal in the center bubble. What activities in each area can be implemented to reach the goal? Each area includes Parenting, Communication, Volunteering, Learning at Home, Decision Making, and Collaborating with the Community. To learn more, visit nnps.org.

Maintaining and sustaining your group work. Has your group completed activities such as holding a workshop? Maintain your group and keep it moving forward by creating discussion to assess your activities. Is your group ready to continue to plan and offer additional activities? Before moving forward, it is good to look at what you have been doing and what results you are receiving from these activities. List current family involvement or partnership activities. For each activity, does this activity connect to student learning goals or the school improvement goals/outcomes? How? How do you measure the success of this activity? What have been the benefits and outcomes of this activity? How have you measured these? What have been the challenges/weaknesses of this activity? What’s not working as you would like? What would you change? Fill in the boxes of the table in the document and discuss and brainstorm.

Now the group has created three goals. Now what do we do? Create an Action Plan using the Action Planning Grid. Provide a description of the key objectives and overall time frame for the group goals.  What are the ties to other school district priorities?  What will be the evidence of success? What are the implications for professional development? In the grid, break the goal down into specific steps necessary to achieve your goals. Priority level. Describe the Action Step. Who is responsible for the Action Step. Who will authorize? Who will lead? Identify the key  personnel. Who will participate? Who will document/evaluate? Identify the required resources. Identify the potential barriers. What is the evidence of success? What is the completion date?

Recognize those who attend your workshops and events. ASample Certificate of Completion is included in this packet. Congratulations go to the participants for the successful completion of a specific number of hours for the professional development activity.

A packet is ready to download today! Word Doc and Docx versions.