EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Mr. John Klaber 2037 Roe Crest Drive North Mankato, MN 56003 507-469-9096 (mobile) jpklaber@gmail.com CALENDAR MASA/MASE Joint 2020-21 Calendar MEMBERSHIPS • Join MASE! • Business Partner Membership CONTRACTS Model Contracts Base language for new special education director and continuing special education director. MN CONNECTIONS MASA: MN Assn. of School Administrators Every Child Matters: MN Children's Platform Coalition MAAP: MN Association of Alternative Programs MASSP: MN Assn. of Secondary School Principals MDE: MN Dept. of Education MESPA: MN Elementary School Principals Assn. MNCEC: MN Council for Exceptional Children MREA: MN Rural Education Assn. MSBA: MN School Boards Assn. MN Special Education Compliance and Assistance: Complaints, Hearings, Mediation NATIONAL CONNECTIONS AASA: American Assn. of School Administrators CASE: Council of Administrators of Special Education CEC: Council for Exceptional Children Disabilityinfo.gov: the New Freedom Initiative USDOE: U.S. Dept. of Education |
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===================================== Minnesota Disability Law Center launching Disability Voting Rights Video Resource Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and Minnesota Disability Law Center (MDLC) are excited to share a new voting video resource with our community: Disability Rights and How to Vote. The video features self-advocates outlining the Minnesota voting process, discussing available accommodations, and addressing the voting concerns of individuals with disabilities. With the consequential General Election approaching, it is important that we as partner agencies work together to provide resources for people with disabilities to access their right to vote. We have shared the Disability Rights and How to Vote video directly with you because we ask that our community partners help to circulate this resource. The video has been posted today on our social media platforms at the following links:
===================================== Mark your calendar! Thursday, March 4, 2021MASE Day at the Capitol ===================================== A Slice of Collaboration 2nd and 4th Tuesdays beginning 7/28 (dates added to the calendar above.) Due to numerous requests, we are hoping to have opportunities for MASE members to plan and learn together. Here is a short introductory video from explaining the upcoming meetings: Click Here to View More ===================================== Who belongs to MASE? The MASE directory has been updated with the data that you provided to us through your online membership. If you do not find your name listed in any of the files, we have not received your 2020 - 2021 membership as of October 8, 2020. Click here to view the directory ===================================== 2020 MASE Fall Leadership Conference will be Virtual We hope you are planning to attend the 2020 MASE Fall Leadership Conference on October 22-23. It undoubtedly comes as no surprise to you that we will be meeting in a virtual format, but we will be meeting, and that is important during these times. The vehicle might be yet another virtual experience, but we promise we will do our best to make this valuable professional learning that will support our members right now. The conference will include great sessions, awards presentations, and our raffle drawing. Sadly, we won’t be able to do our wine tasting or silent auction, but stay tuned … our PD Chairs Melanie Kray and Holle Spessard have an idea for a Thursday evening event that will include a friendly competition among regions, and costumes might be involved! The MASE Board of Directors will meet virtually on Wednesday, October 21, and the New Leaders Cohort will also meet virtually on Wednesday. We will be glad to see you virtually and we are looking forward to the time when we can meet in person! Registration materials will be coming soon. ===================================== MASE Fall Newsletter Click Here ===================================== Carol Anhalt Receives MASE Legacy Award (St. Paul, MN) – Carol Anhalt, Retired Director of the Zumbro Education District, has been awarded the Legacy Award by the Minnesota Administrators for Special Education (MASE). Anhalt will be honored for her commitment to encouraging, developing, and mentoring leaders who reflect the MASE mission at a statewide recognition ceremony to be held at the 2020 MASE Fall Leadership Conference, October 21-23. Press Release ===================================== Register Today! 2020-2021New Leaders Cohort MASE New Leaders’ Training is a series of professional development sessions that provide opportunities for:
Participants have an opportunity to meet other new leaders, experienced colleagues, state department staff, and other resource people from the special education community. Topics include federal and state special education law, finance and budgeting, state reporting, program topics, and leadership. Continuing education credits are awarded. You can find the full details and registration information online at: https://events.resultsathand.com/newleaders/1201. ===================================== SpEd Forms Draft COVID-19 Contingency Plan https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SZ2gKXfvkskpTfUOwznamghIfNsWBrvA/view?usp=sharing ===================================== U of M Educator Distance Learning Survey Report Released In May, the University of Minnesota surveyed districts on the implementation of distance learning. Thanks to all who provided data for this important research. As the state’s land grant institution, The University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) saw a responsibility to gain feedback from the educators who were tasked with implementing distance learning to inform the University on how the College of Education and Human Development may be helpful in providing supports to PK-12 schools and share that feedback with the state as a whole. Dr. Kim Gibbons, Director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, and Dr. Katie Pekel from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development led a team of collaborators from inside and outside the University to execute a survey to seek that feedback. This report is a summary of those findings. More than 13,000 educator respondents from across the state completed the survey between May 27 and June 28, 2020. The quantitative and qualitative data informed key findings related to the importance of relationships and technology, educator worries, and significant lessons learned during PK-12 distance learning in Minnesota.
===================================== Membership in CASE .... It’s Rewarding - Join through your MASE Membership! From 2002 through 2012, the number of MASE members who were also members of CASE remained fairly constant at around 115. Following this, our membership in the national organization began dropping until numbers hit a low of 71 in 2016. Since that time, MASE Membership Chairs, Tami Alps and Dianne McCarron and others have employed a number of strategies to increase our national presence. These strategies include promoting membership to new district hires, providing MN Colleges and University Special Education Teacher and Administrator Licensure Departments with promotional materials including a welcome letter from the MASE President, a membership form, a MASE Newsletter and the MASE Legislative Platform, attending MASE regional meetings to promote the benefits of both MASE and CASE membership and, with the help of the MASA/MASE staff, aligning the MASE and CASE renewal system. Through the use of these strategies, CASE saw a 22% increase in MASE Members from 2018 to 2019 and a 98% increase since 2016, making Minnesota the 7th largest unit in CASE. At the Spring CEC Conference in Portland, Cheryl Hall, MASE 2019 President, and Cherie Johnson, CASE Liaison, were presented the CASE Unit Award for Membership. ===================================== Be a part of MASE! Join Today MASE spans the state with nine areas. Members are directors of special education and other administrators for special education in public or private schools, cooperative regional, state and other educational administrative units. Members also include other school administrators such as superintendents and central office leaders, college and university professors of special education teacher or administrator preparation programs, and Minnesota Department of Education employees. MASE and MASA provide powerful professional support and a wide variety of benefits such as quality conferences, skill development workshops, informative publications, and state and national legislative advocacy. MASA membership also provides personal services, including legal consultation, liability insurance and life insurance. Click Here to Join ===================================== MASE President Scholarship Recipient Alissa Lien, a senior at Northfield High School, is the recipient of the MASE President $1000 Scholarship for a student pursuing a career in special education. Alissa will attend Minnesota State University Mankato to pursue her Bachelor of Science degree in the field of Special Education, Academic Behavioral Specialist. Alissa became interested in the field of special education because of the influence her younger brother had on her growing up. She wanted to help him be successful and took the initiative to better understand how his disability impacted his learning and life. Alissa also volunteered in a classroom and worked in the district's daycare center supporting children with special needs. She wants to continue to learn more and be able to see more children grow in their own ways. ===================================== 2020 Stenswick Benson Scholarship Recipients
===================================== SPECIAL NOTICE: As the school year comes to a close, please let us know if you or someone you know is in the process of changing districts, changing positions, emails etc. Simply email Jeanna at quinn@mnasa.org. MASE thanks you! ===================================== COVID-19 Information and Resources In the interest of archiving a chronological list of available resources for our members, MASA and MASE are collaborating to provide resource pages online. We will post information as we receive it, in chronological order with the most recent information first. We will monitor the situation continuously and update this information as we receive it. Please contact the MASA/MASE team if you have questions or concerns.Visit https://www.mnase.org/covid-19.html or click the COVID-19 tab above. ===================================== SpEd Forms Notice! Sped Forms has created a new Quick Report that captures district data on Individualized Distance Learning Plans (IDLP). The report pulls the following information: serving district, school, student, grade, case manager, stay put IEP date, DLP developed date, DLP finalized date, stay put federal setting and DLP federal setting. As always you can sort this data in many ways, you can also download the data into an Excel file and work with it there. Administrators will find this new report under Admin Reporting, Quick Reports and it's called Individualized Distance Learning Plans (IDLPs) with a finalized date. We hope you find this report helpful! Diane McCarron SpEd Forms, Director of MN Services ===================================== Online Toolbox: MASE Members’ Best Practices Collection of COVID-19 Resources MASE has established an online resource through which members can share resources to support districts’ and leaders’ needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Members are invited to send materials to the MASE office to be posted online, and colleagues may view the resources and download materials of their choice. Materials may include communications, tools or forms locally developed, articles, links, or anything you have found helpful. Resources will be in the "Members Only” section of the MASE web site, so only MASE members may view or download the items. Please do not share your password. If you have materials you would like included in this resource, please email them to Jeanna Vohnoutka at MASE (jeanna.vohnoutka@mnasa.org) and she will post them. Please note inclusion of these items does not assume MASE’s endorsement of the material. MASE will not review your postings but reserves the right to remove postings that are not supportive of MASE’s mission to serve our members. As always, thank you for your generosity and willingness to share your best practices. ===================================== Free resources during the pandemic Following you will find a link to a list of educational companies offering free resources during the pandemic. Click Here ===================================== Special Education Advisory Panel (SEAP) MDE Conference Center A, Room 13 September 25, 2020 November 20, 2020 January 22, 2021 April 16, 2021 ===================================== Help Build MASE’s Business Partner Membership Roster! Over the last several years, one significant MASE initiative has been to recruit MASE Business Partner members. This helps our association by developing relationships that can support the products ad services most likely to be of value to our programs, as well as bringing in additional revenue, helping MASE better serve our members. We have a strong and growing cadre of business partners. Discover them at: https://www.mnase.org/19-20-partnerships.html Your referrals for partner members are very appreciated! Send your referrals to John Klaber (MASE Executive Director - jpklaber@gmail.com) or Scott Masten (MASE Treasurer - smasten@lagassiz.com). An easy way for MASE members to help is to reply to sales calls or emails by saying you prefer to work with MASE business partners. Here is an example: "Hello, I appreciate your email. I prefer to do business with companies and individuals who are MASE Business Partners. You can get the information you need here: https://www.mnase.org/19-20-partnerships.html You can just cut and paste the same message, or, you can even paste your message in an email shortcut and with a simple keystroke send your message! Directions for creating a handy snippet (including a handy YouTube tutorial) are at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHlDOSSf0vM Or click here for directions in a pdf format. Thank you for helping MASE’s Business Partner Program grow! |
We would like to thank our Tier 3 Partners for their continued support!
___________________ TIER 3 2020 - 2021 PARTNERSHIP MEMBERS Family Achievement Center, Inc. (Related Service Provider) Veronica Arens President, OTR/L 2101 Wooddale Drive, Suite A Woodbury, MN 55125 Phone: 651-738-9878 varens@familyachievement.com https://familyachievement.com/ ________________________________ Grand Canyon University Hoang Dao University Development Counselor 3300 West Camelback Road Phoenix, AZ 85017 Phone: 612-965-7685 hoang.dao@gcu.edu https://www.gcu.edu/ ________________________________ Kennedy & Graven, Chartered Lisa Larson Legal Administrative Assistant 200 South 6th Street, Suite 470 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Phone: 612-337-9308 llarson@kennedy-graven.com https://www.kennedy-graven.com/ ________________________________ Kraus Anderson John Huenink VP/Director of Education 501 South 8th Street Minneapolis, MN 55404 Phone: 612-332-7281 john.huenink@krausanderson.com http://www.krausanderson.com ________________________________ SpEd Forms Diane McCarron Director of Minnesota Services PO Box 1 Jasper, MN 56144 Phone: 866-796-1848 diane@spedforms.com www.spedforms.com _________________________________ Strategic Staffing Solutions Josh Duncan Managing Director PO Box 276 Mount Pleasant, SC 29465 Phone: 866-590-4652 josh.duncan@strategicss.com www.strategicss.com _________________________________ Trinity3 Technology Jim Mattson Director of Sales & Customer Service 2550 University Avenue West, Suite 315-S St. Paul, MN 55114 Phone: 651-888-7922 jmattson@trinity3.com www.trinity3.com |
