23B Program Cartographer and Mapping Details

“Program Cartographer”

The role of “program cartographer” is to coordinate the group's work, engage with faculty and with SESIS representatives if needed, to develop meetings, to remain in touch with HESC facilitator regarding the work at the institution, and to oversee the reporting of project outcomes at the Spring, 2010 Statewide Task Force meeting. Group meetings can be implemented in a variety of venues and configurations and at a variety of times. An HESC facilitator will assist each “cartographer” in order to ensure productive work. Each “cartographer” or main applicant, as a representative of the institution will be asked for his or her name, telephone contact, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, institutional business official's name, and contact information. In addition, the application includes a description of the program under examination and a brief rationale for choosing this particular program. The make-up of the faculty group to map the QI comparison will depend in part on the faculty members responsible for the program who agree to participate. These members will also need to be listed. Finally, the group assembled for the purpose of this comparison should include at least one student from the program and the field officer(s) responsible for the program's field placements as well.

The HESC facilitator will be ready to assist each institution in the process of gathering relevant documents, facilitating discussion about programs, mapping the QIs against programs, documenting the comparison, and summarizing the results of the project. The “cartographer” may lead the presentation at the spring, 2010 State-wide Meeting. However, it is hoped that institutional faculty involved in the mapping process will join to provide the presentation and to provide facilitation as part of the meeting also. HESC envisions the facilitation as involving TF members who attend the spring, 2010 State-wide Meeting and as engaging them in better understanding their own programs in comparison to the QIs.

Mapping process

As coordinated by the group's “cartographer”, members of the study groups can review the 2008 and the 2009 recommendations for Initiative 23 at www.inclusion-ny.org and decide on courses of action within each area to discuss and to describe the comparison between the QIs and the program under examination. Once the mapping process is complete, with the help of the HESC facilitator, a report should be provided to the HESC no later than August 15, 2010. A presentation for each institution will be offered at the spring, 2010 State-wide Meeting.