The purpose of the Analysis: Collaboration assignment is for candidates to prese

The purpose of the Analysis: Collaboration assignment is for candidates to present the suggested
amended or created policy (determined the Moral and Legal Issues assignment) to select
families, caregivers, colleagues, supervisors/administrators, and students (i.e., stakeholders). In
3-5 pages, candidates will write a paper to gain the stakeholders’ perspectives and collaborate
with them about the proposed topic for the Legal Entanglement Project. Should edits be needed
to the topic, the candidate and stakeholders will discuss how to edit during this part of the
project. Furthermore, candidates will include in their paper relevant data surrounding the topic to
show the need for policy amendment. Candidates should use school specific data related to the
topic, but if the data is unavailable, he/she can broaden the data to include state or national data
on the topic. The candidate will be sure to correct the feedback from the last assignment as
he/she continues working towards the Final Submission.
This collaborative effort is a crucial component of the final presentation and will require
candidates to talk to people, parents, faculty, etc., within his/her selected school; please note this
does not mean using research studies but rather having conversations with actual stakeholders.
This is a required portion of the final presentation, so please take the time to make connections
within the placement or selected school.
The candidate will also include relevant data surrounding the topic to show the need for policy
change, creation, or amendment. The data portion should include actual data from the
candidate’s school/topic (i.e., demographics, data on the topic, data shared from stakeholders,
data on school referrals surrounding the topic, etc.). It will strengthen the topic to identify rate of
occurrence in the candidate’s school, as well as state/national data on the issue.
If you are currently a school employee, you will use your school colleagues for the analysis. If
you are not currently working in a school or if you do not have connections, you will reach out to
stakeholders who have connections within the schools (i.e., parents who have children in school,
friends who are teachers, etc.).
It might be helpful to use the rubric components (Analyzes Data, Analyzes the Policy, and
Analyzes the Focal Groups) as headings in the submitted assignment to make sure components
are not overlooked.
The page length for this portion is 3–5 pages. Be sure to include a title page and reference page
that adheres to APA formatting.