Comprehensive Needs Assessment

for Migrant Education Programs

CNA Meeting 2

1 Day

Objectives:

  • Finalize and prioritize Concern Statements
  • Develop Need Indicators

Meeting 2 Annotated Agenda

AMProject Manager’s Review Scope of Work (15 minutes)

  • General comments on progress
  • Review meeting objectives

Activity: “Student Success: What Is and What Should Be” (30 minutes)

  • As a group, complete a two-column chart:
  • What kind of school success do migrant students currently experience?
  • What kind of school success do we want for them?
  • What are the major differences between the two lists (the gaps)?
  • Use this activity as a prelude to the real-life example that follows

“My Sister’s Driving Habits” (30 minutes)

  • Examine handout “Concern Statement Development – My Sister’s Driving Habits”. Make the connection between this real-life example and the information generated in your state’s CNA process.
  • (Optional) As a follow-up the committee could take one Concern Statement generated during the process and follow it through the same steps outlined in the handout.

Migrant Student Profile Update(15 minutes)

  • Review the Migrant Student Profile and highlight any updated information. Remind committee members that there should be a relationship between the Profile and the Statements of Concern.

Community Input Presentation (45 minutes including discussion)

  • The selected representative from each goal team from Meeting 1 should review the results of the community input data collection with particular emphasis on how this data impacts on the state’s Statements of Concern.

Finalizing Concern Statements: Initial Prioritization

(1 hour)

  • Review Concern Statements, discussing the relationship among them.
  • How might one influence another?
  • How did the Concern Statements differ from what you might have expected?
  • Did any Concern Statements not fit into the Seven Areas of Concern?
  • Was the parent and community input incorporated into the statements?
  • Is there consensus from the group to add any additional areas of concern, if needed?
  • Within each of the Seven Areas of Concern, the group will identify the top Concern Statements.
  • Use Nominal Group Technique or some variant to rate statements (voting using colored dots)

PM Introduction to Needs Indicators (30 Minutes)

  • Distribute “Introduction to Need Indicators”
  • Distribute “From Goal Area to Need Indicator”
  • Review both handouts and remind the committee of the flow of the CNA Process from Goal Area through Need Indicator

Selecting Good Need Indicators (30 Minutes)

  • Distribute “Need Indicators”, which is three separate activities.
  • Begin with Activity 1. Either in breakout groups or as a whole group, choose the best Need Indicator from each example and discuss why the example was chosen. Refer to “Introduction to Need Indicators” to clarify.

Revising Need Indicators (30 Minutes)

  • Either in breakout groups or as a whole group, begin Activity 2. Revise one or more of the four Needs Indicators listed. Share revised indicators in large group and discuss.

Writing A Need Indicator (45 Minutes)

  • Activity 3 will initiate the process of writing Need Indicators based upon your state’s Statements of Concern. Conduct this activity in your goal area sub-groups. Once the sub-group writes a Need Indicator, feedback should be obtained from the other sub-groups. You may want to provide more than one sheet per person so that this activity could be repeated as necessary. Once the goal sub-group is satisfied with the Need Indicator(s) written, these should be transferred to chart paper for the committee to review.

Meeting 2 Summary and Follow-Up Activities

(30 Minutes)

  • Review basic concepts from Meeting 2 and ask for feedback.
  • Review goal sub-committee assignment which is to develop Need Indicators for Concern Statements chosen for their goal area.

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