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Educational Service Partners

MASA's Public Service Partner Organization program pairs MASA with not-for-profit agencies and organizations in order to provide our members valuable information and potential direct services to their districts.

Why Public Service Partners?

Frequently, various not-for-profit agencies and organizations approach us to learn how they can get information out to Superintendents. These organizations often have something of value to offer to Michigan’s educators and students. As a result, we’ve created the Public Service Partner Organization program.

How does MASA choose Education Service Partners?

  1. Once a Partner Organization and/or project has been verified as public service, non-profit, and in line with our organization’s mission to serve our members; basic awareness communications will be drafted, approved and sent with a link to our MASA website, Leader, etc.
  2. If requested by the Partner Organization and approved by the Executive Director and the Executive Committee, arrangements will be made for a 10-15 minute awareness presentation at a MASA Council meeting. Any information distributed must be done in a clear, simple, and minimal manner. The purpose for this presentation will be for the leadership of our organization to have a better understanding of the Partner Organization.
  3. After the Council presentation, Region presidents will be given contact information for the Partner Organization with the potential for a presentation at a future MASA region meeting and/or to set up a video stream presentation for a region meeting and/or for individual membership use in his or her district.
  4. A Partner Organization, in collaboration with a MASA member, could...
    • Submit a proposal for either our Fall or Midwinter Conferences.
    • Initiate a listserv conversation with a brief description of the issue and two or three key, predetermined questions framed to kick off the conversation and sharing.
    • Develop a ‘Continuing Community Conversation’ project, in the form of an educational television public assess program where local community leaders would be video taped in conversation regarding the topic of the Partners service. The Community Conversation participants could then host a follow-up conversation in their home district.
  5. MASA will monitor how these initiatives are being received and how helpful they are to our members and communities. This would be done once a year with a specific listing of which projects have been initiated.

To learn more about the program, contact Associate Executive Director Dan Pappas at 517.327.9267 or dpappas@gomasa.org.