Creating Agreement Collection: Tools

Tools to assess knowledge and level of agreement

• Guiding Principles

This document provides the unifying beliefs that address our collective approach to this issue. You may want to share these among the groups with whom you work to build a common sense of purpose.

• Grounding Assumptions

These documents provide the shared agreements across stakeholders groups about Creating Agreement that address the technical side of Creating Agreement. They are the foundation for our collaborative efforts on implementation on Creating Agreement. You may want to share these among the groups with whom you work to identify your shared agreements.

• Needs of the Field

This tool provides a summary of the insights across stakeholder groups about Creating Agreement. You may consider using this document to begin your discussions and assess the degree to which your stakeholders agree with these insights.

Tools to build common knowledge and understanding

• PowerPoint & Presenter Guides

The PowerPoint presentations and accompanying Presenter Guides provide coaching to deliver the PowerPoint as a presentation or workshop.

• • Building Partnerships, Creating Agreement: Collaborative Problem Solving in Early Intervention and Special Education--PowerPoint
  • Building Partnerships, Creating Agreement: Collaborative Problem Solving in Early Intervention and Special Education --Presenter Guide

• Glossary

Tools to help you learn and act together

• Fact Sheet

The fact sheet outlines the ready to use resources available on this site around Creating Agreement. By printing the fact sheet you can create interest in bringing people together around the issue.

• Essential Elements of Collaboration

This document provides four simple questions to help you begin working together.

• Dialogue Guides for the Creating Agreement Collection

Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders.. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences in States and districts. In this manner, stakeholders all over the country can begin interacting in new ways around implementation issues. Each dialogue guide title has questions written specifically for a target audience by representatives of that audience.  Dialogue Facilitator's Handbook

Your Voice

Your experiences help the Partnership and our readers understand issues and perspectives. Please take a minute to share:

• • Your CA initiative and the strategies involved
  • What strategies are working and reasons for success
  • What problems (barriers) you have encountered and how they were solved
  • Innovative approaches to interventions
  • How you promote CA initiative across groups and organizations.

To help us understand how the Partnership collection is useful, please take a minute to share:

• • How you used the collection
  • Your reactions to the collection 
  • Your ideas for improving the collection