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 Maine Support Network
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“If we are committed to making sure that no child isleft behind, school districts across the country will needto develop successful strategies both to support newteachers and to keep veteran teachers in place.”
 Alliance for Excellent Education, 2002 
Celebrating and Supporting Maine Learning Communities 
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The Maine Support Network is also host to the Partnership of  Partnerships (POP). The goal of POP is to deepen and broaden aninfrastructure that will sustain Maine’s network of state and regional part-nerships. The acronym POP accurately describes the burst of ideas andcreativity that surfaces when Maine’s partners gather to discuss issues andpriorities that promote high standards of learning for all students. POPmembers reach out directly to schools in their regions to provide diverseprofessional development activities, share best practices, materials andexpertise.The Maine Support Network provides a wide variety of technicalassistance, support and professional development focused on childrenand youth with disabilities. Since 1986, we have sponsored more thanfifty events serving more than 3000 educators, parents, youth, andprofessionals across the state every year. Our goal is to support learningand high aspirations for all students, with an emphasis on students withdisabilities and special health care needs. We bring new ideas based onresearch, creativity, innovation, and fun to Support Network activitiesusing Celebratory Learning attributes in all of our work. Most importantly,the Support Network provides educators, parents and policy makers withopportunities to form rewarding collegial relationships and share expertise,new and emerging best practice to inform their work, policy and practice.Many of our professional development and technical assistance activitiesare designed to retain teachers, especially special education teachers toassure that all Maine students achieve to high standards.We work to build and support learning communities locally, regionallyand statewide. We conduct workshops and seminars throughout theState, host an annual retreat for educators at the Samoset Resort everyFebruary, and work collaboratively with state agencies, parent, advocacyand professional organizations serving children, youth and adults withdisabilities. We are a founding member and fiscal agent for the MaineConsortium for Professional and Parent Development. We maintain aninteractive web site, a statewide listserv of educators numbering in excessof 1000 members and a lending
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Maine Support Network is committed todelivering services that will:
Meet your local needs for scheduling, location andcontent;Use local data as a basis for professional development;Work with local design teams;Align professional development to your district’scomprehensive plan or school grants;Turn your professional development into a celebratorylearning opportunity; andAward your staff clock hours, H.O.U.S.S.E. pointsand/or university credit. “
The Network hasbeen the organizationfor which I always savemy professionaldevelopment time.”
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