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Committees
- Business Services Committee: Works to enhance school business/management services and leadership, and to strengthen effectiveness and efficiency through regionalization of purchase and delivery efforts.
- Curriculum Coordinators: Plans for
and provides leadership involving issues of curriculum, instruction
and assessment; helps plan and implement staff development initiatives.
- Guidance Services: Discusses and sets goals for delivering school guidance services that place an increased emphasis on college and career planning and engage guidance professionals in leading school change and reform. Collaboration with the Mitchell Institute.
- Special Education: Five school units
collaborate in the provision of psycholocial services and speech
therapy.
- Task Forces: Works on targeted timely topics; established as needed.
- Teacher Preparation: Plans collaorative preparation and support of pre-service and practicing educators in Professional Development Schools, which provide a realistic learning laboratory for aspiring and novice teachers and for university and school faculty jointly investigating questions of teaching and learning.
- Pre-Referral: School units are involved with planning for and implementing pilot programs in meeting the expectations for the State of Maine Pre-Referral initiative. Schools are collaborating in planning for
and providing staff development for teachers and administrators in
grades K-12.
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Executive Officers: This group meets four times yearly and provides overall direction for PREP Initiatives. The Executive Officers are comprised of school superintendents and the Dean of the College of Education and Human Development and the Dean of the College of Business, Public Policy and Health.
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Science Collaborative: Through a collaborative process of development, trial, and peer evaluation, this committee is focused on crafting learning experiences for 9th graders.
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Virtual High School: Three school units have initiated programming
utilizing the Virtual High School Program. Schools share the costs and
the number of programs available.