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Community Services Standing Committee

• Helping with collection development, including identifying potential editorial groups (professional societies, agencies, etc) with whom we can partner to recommend new (non-NSDL funded) collections.
• Creating selection criteria for choosing the pilot middle schools with whom we can work to develop a middle school portal, and recommending schools that meet that criteria.
• Researching and reporting on the critical needs in the area of teacher preparation.
• Helping to create profiles and gain demographic info about middle schools and teachers.
• Helping to create a cadre of ambassadors who will act as

Notes - Community Services Standing Committee

• A few words from our friends at MathForum
• Working toward a MS emphasis
  • What process should we use to make this MS thing happen? What are the elements? Workflow, timeline, management
  • Inventory of MS projects and projects that could have MS application
  • Who are MS users? What are the characteristics of teachers and/or students? (e.g., PD level, educational psychological)
  • Inventory of related NSF initiatives that might provide these services
  • What should the pilot testers look like?

• Paper about audience
  • Why is middle school important?
• Inventory of MS projects
• Possible models of participatory involvement

• Quentin Briggs
• Carollee Barber
• Joanne Silverstein
• Susan Van Gundy
• Bryan Aivazian
• Raj Pandya
• Bruce Caron
• Arthur Clifford
• Rob Stephenson
• Gene Klotz
• Jeanne Narum

• The next year we are here to serve MS, but also set up mechanisms to share information and then build a way to bring in other
• People felt that MS is excluding them; Get that message across that we�re building capacity and bringing to attention this is something that�s needed
• Show component parts that make up projects each of those components series of users just to get to the middle school�shown that its parts can be taken
• The next year we are here to serve MS, but also set up mechanisms to share information and then build a way to bring in other projects
• MS project � these are the skills and services needed � this is communicated to the CI, they choose
• MS is a reactive situation (as perceived) set up mechanisms, get the word out; we�re in the position to set up a process to being collecting information about future using communities
• Focus, but not at expense of variety

• Check the change literature to set expectations about implementation of MS portal taking hold.
• Thoroughly review more info about what is going in MS data and literature.
• Become a zealot in talking about it
• Define requirements for a project plan: administrators, teachers, students, parents: How engaged are they in changing circumstances to enable student learning? Buy-in to adoption may mean changing culture
• What can we do to involve users users working with stuff = serious assessment

• People need to find what�s been evaluated
• Get users to develop new materials can give them an incentive
• **What�s new is not what they�re looking for; what�s good is what they�re looking for (handouts, posters, multilingual materials)**
• Create a series of exemplars; Rich scenarios about MS �NSDL Day in the Life� of a MS teacher

• Break the portal down in manageable chunks
• Kids, teachers, administrators, preservice teachers, parents: Checklist of audiences
• Get teachers involved
• GK12 fellows program get 30K to work in MS Is there a way to work with the mentors of the GK-12 fellows to identify link those people to using NSDL materials
• Quentin: Reach out to professional organizations
• DLESE model compelling questions that are important to people
• Having a workshop w/panels talking about the way they work with users, then making use of participants get together to share the answers

• Task of the CSSC could be to develop a communications plan that ensures that activities that are going on
• The role could be making sure that there�s an appropriate communication plan, but we provide requirements to build community (e.g, ESIP competitive projects: idea for work is put out to the community, people who are interested react, and then admin makes a move
• Add our committee�s request that the PC get back on track to get a robust participatory process
• Formalize mentoring between old projects and new? (AskNSDL that is created by CI has topics)
• **Build matrix and timeline of involving the user community**
• Consider how we might be a little more focused on different audiences (e.g., CF K-12 check box)
• How can the standing committees be involved in future planning for these emphases? Early stage of a social process building Implications and values to be raised
• What type of organizational structures would be the best way for us to make these decisions
• As a community service, do we have a role to help people to come up with proposals; if you�re not funded by NSDL
• Hounding people�how would you like to contribute your time? Email hound? Set aside time on a regular basis to discuss how to move forward�make it on your calendar
• Work on services for the users is still pretty big
• Rob Stephenson: How is the portal serving everyone
• Arthur: Push technologies how can the community services site in particular last 5 threads
• How effective is what happened here in resulting in more participatory structure for the DL?

• Bruce Caron/Gerry Hanley--Take idea to PC project plan for communication; collect information about future groups
• Raj Pandya�matrix for user groups (e.g., administrators, teachers, students, parents); How can the community services committee help to determine what the next emphasis might be?
• Bryan/Marcia (and Nancy Lane)�rationale piece; lay out short position statement and paper; Contextualize the paper as above; Exemplars, things for the audience (maybe for the future)
• Quentin/Carollee-Selection criteria for pilot schools
• Arthur-What kinds of technologies (middleware?) might be good foci here? Also leads to a selection criteria for schools
• Susan VanGundy-Make connection with GK12 fellows

• more work
• more reporting

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