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Start By Connecting Participants. Name Organization How has your organization’s practices changed over the past 5 years? What important issues is your organization currently facing? What is a key innovation you have witnessed recently? . Introduce yourself to your neighbors:.

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  1. Start By Connecting Participants • Name • Organization • How has your organization’s practices changed over the past 5 years? • What important issues is your organization currently facing? • What is a key innovation you have witnessed recently? Introduce yourself to your neighbors:

  2. Strategic Innovation Developing CreativeVolunteer Roles that Fulfill Our Core Brad Hasskamp, ABE Policy & Operations Specialist, Minnesota Department of Education

  3. Start By Connecting Participants • Name • Organization • How has your organization’s practices changed over the past 5 years? • Whatimportant issues is your organization currently facing? • What is a key innovation you have witnessed recently? Introduce yourself to your neighbors:

  4. Brad Hasskamp ABE Policy & Operations Specialist Minnesota Department of Education

  5. How would you define

  6. “Creativity is thinking up new things.Innovation is doing new things.”- Theodore Levitt

  7. 5 Innovation Strategies

  8. “Innovation – any new idea – by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.”- Warren Bennis

  9. What sparks innovation?

  10. Innovation comes from failure. Innovation comes from our needsto survive & improve.

  11. Analyzing your organization Work individually or in small groups

  12. Levels of Expectations • Program Federal • Organization • Consortium • State

  13. Levels of Expectations Expectations Policies Laws Best Practices

  14. Examples of Innovation with Volunteers Issues: • Communities with low student numbers and low need • Struggling with student retention • Teachers struggle with technology • Low student literacy gains Need: • Increase student retention and literacy gains Idea: • Use volunteers in areas of low need to tutor students on distance learning curriculum Distance Learning Outreach Sites

  15. Examples of Innovation with Volunteers Issues: • Struggling with student retention • Teachers struggle with technology • Students want to work on distance learning curriculum Need: • Serve students online Idea: • Volunteers serve as online tutors helping students via Skype Online Tutors

  16. Examples of Innovation with Volunteers Issues: • Low student literacy gains • Struggling to effectively serve students who are deaf and/or have disabilities • Program resources are low/insufficient Need: • Better serve students with disabilities Idea: • Work with a graduate school to have a class/group research international, national, and state data and practices Educational Research Projects

  17. Examples of Innovation with Volunteers Issues: • Too many students in the class • Students want to gain work experience • Students’ levels and needs vary greatly Need: • Serve smaller groups of students without turning lots of students away Idea: • Have a graduating/former student tutor a beginning-level group Student Volunteers

  18. Examples of Innovation with Volunteers Issues: • Volunteers from a local business are only willing/able to volunteer • And…? Need: • Articulate the need Idea: • What’s your idea? “One-Day Only!” Volunteers

  19. Examples of Innovation with Volunteers Issues: • Identify key issues Need: • Articulate a primary need Idea: • What’s your idea? Your own scenario

  20. “Vision without action is merely a dream.Action without vision just passes the time.Vision with action can change the world!”- Joel Arthur Barker

  21. Questions? What additional questions do you have?

  22. For More Information

  23. Policy Play #1 Which volunteers are required by MDE-ABE policy to receive training? 2

  24. Policy Play #1 All ABE volunteers who: • Directly tutor or instruct students; & • Generate ABE contact hours independent from a classroom teacher.

  25. Policy Play #3 How long is the training volunteers receive at the beginning of their service, according to MDE-ABE policy? 1

  26. Policy Play #3 The pre-service training is hours 12

  27. Policy Play #4 Do volunteer classroom assistants working under the direct supervision of a teacher need to be trained? 1

  28. Policy Play #4 according to MDE-ABE policy but…

  29. Policy Play #5 Do volunteers need the pre-service training if they are working with students when the teacher is not in the building? 1

  30. Policy Play #5 according to MDE-ABE policy

  31. Policy Play #6 Do volunteers need the pre-service training if they are responsible for a class of students and under only minimal teacher supervision? 1

  32. Policy Play #6 according to MDE-ABE policy

  33. Policy Play #7 Do volunteers need to be trained if they are taking a group of students to another room to work with them? 1

  34. Policy Play #7 according to MDE-ABE policy as long as…

  35. Policy Play #8 Do volunteers need to be trained if they are only doing student intakes? 1

  36. Policy Play #8 according to MDE-ABE policy but…

  37. Policy Play #9 Do volunteers need to be trained if they are only working with programming not receiving state or federal ABE funding? 1

  38. Policy Play #9 according to MDE-ABE policy

  39. Policy Play #10 Which 4 types of certification or experience can make an ESL volunteer exempt from the state’s pre-service training requirement? 4

  40. Policy Play #10 ESL volunteer exemptions: • TEFL/TESL Certificate • College degree in ESL or Linguistics • Current Minnesota K-12 License • Over 400 hours of documentable ESL instruction (paid or volunteer) in comparable programs

  41. Policy Play #11 Which 3 types of certification or experience can make an ABE volunteer exempt from the state’s pre-service training requirement? 3

  42. Policy Play #11 ABE volunteer exemptions: • Current Minnesota K-12 License • Current Minnesota ABE License • Over 400 hours of documentable ABE instruction (paid or volunteer) in comparable programs

  43. Policy Play #12 What 5 topics must be covered in a pre-service volunteer training, according to MDE-ABE policy? 5

  44. Policy Play #12 Required Pre-Service Topics: • Initial & Ongoing Assessment • Goal Setting & Follow-Up • Working with Texts • Lesson Planning • Working with Adults

  45. Policy Change Discussion Proposed Pre-Service Topics: • Accountability & Assessment • Goal Setting & Follow-Up • Working with Texts & Curriculum Resources • Lesson Planning • Working with Adults

  46. Policy Play #13 Volunteers must receive pre-service training within what time from their volunteer assignment, according to MDE-ABE policy? 1

  47. Policy Play #13 Volunteers need to get trained within months 3

  48. Policy Play #14 Where can volunteers get pre-service training, according to MDE-ABE policy? 3

  49. Policy Play #14 • Minnesota Literacy Council’s Main Office • Local sites that bring in MLC trainers • Programs that get their training certified by the MLC & by the MDE-ABE office

  50. Policy Play #15 Are volunteers required to receive ongoing training? 1

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