Program Highlights

Highlights

Professional Development - The Minnesota Service Cooperatives offer a wide variety of workshops, seminars, and conferences. The agencies also host a number of professional networks, associations, and learning communities. Training opportunities may be offered on a regional basis or customized to fit the needs of individual organizations, including on site training. Professional Development offerings serve many employee groups: from School Administrators to Bus Drivers, from CEO to Administrative Assistants, from Custodian to Para Professionals.

Cooperative Purchasing - Cooperative Purchasing services are designed to take advantage of the greater bargaining power that members can have when they bid for goods collectively as a unit. Most Service Cooperatives charge a small percentage of the order cost as a fee for their service. A variety of school supplies, cafeteria equipment, and custodial supplies are purchased through this program. All of the Minnesota Service Cooperatives offer members this service.

Insurance Programs - Each Service Agency operates insurance pools for Health Insurance as well as other Risk Management areas. Combined premiums exceed $100 million annually, and pool members have experienced substantial savings and cost containment as a result of these cooperative efforts. A number of SC's are utilizing a VEBA Trust Fund as a option to traditional Insurance Programs.

Student Academic Challenge Programs - All Service Agencies offer, sponsor, and coordinate academic programs and competitions for students, often in cooperation with other organizations and agencies. Several of these competitions reach state, national, and international levels. Programs include:

Academic Decathlon	MN Student Inventors Congress	Writers' Fair
Citizen Bee	Music Fair	Young Inventors' Fair
Close-up	Odyssey of the Mind	Gifted Conference for Students
Speakers' Fair	Spelling Bee	Elementary Knowledge Bowl
Honors Program	MNSC Junior High Knowledge Bowl	MNSC Knowledge Bowl
Student Technology EXPO	Student Creativity Festival	Writers' Fair
Academic Decathlon	MN Student Inventors Congress

Technology Services - Several Service Cooperatives provide technology training and assistive technology support to their clients. These services include training, planning, and implementation of new technologies in the school, home, and workplace, including network infrastructures, Internet connectivity, and software applications. Additionally, the Service Cooperatives provide direct support to schools in the integration of technology and instruction.

What We Do?

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
Affirmative Action	Appraisal Services	Annuities	Bleacher Safety Program	Cash Flow Borrowing Services	City/County Services
Cooperative Purchasing	Delivery Services	Drug & Alcohol Program	Employee Right to Know	Energy Education	Environ- mental Occupat- ional Health and Safety
Equipment Loan	Equipment Repair	Facility Management Assistant Program	Insurance Pooling Programs	Liaison Activities	Long Distance Service
Cellular Phone Service	Management Information Services	Printing Services	Resource Sharing	Shared Stuff	Telecomm- unications /WAN
Crisis Management Planning	Fiscal Host	Grant Writing
CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION
Academic Program & Challenges	Aries A+ Training	Carl Perkins	Cisco Networking Academy	Curriculum Development	Curriculum Resource Library
Distance Learning Initiatives	Driver Simulator Unit	Drug Education	Eating Disorders	English as a Second Language	Gender Equity
Graduation Standards	Interagency Early Intervention Committee	Learners-at- Risk	Low Incidence	Media Library	NCLB Technical Assistance
Nutrition Services	Parenting/Family Education	Parent Information Help line	Project for Activity Centered Science	School to Work	Starlab Planetarium
Strategic Teaching and Reading Program	Tech Prep	Technology/ Computer Training	Telecom- munications	Title I Conferences	Violence Prevention
Youth Apprenticeship	Workshops, Conferences, Seminars	Learn & Service America	Knowledge Bowl	AYP
HUMAN RESOURCES
Bus Driver Training	Centers for Educational Excellence/Development	Collaborative Bargaining	Franklin Covey Seminars	Gifted & Talented	Investigative Services
Leadership Training	Mediation/Conflict Resolution	Mentorship Programs	Metropolitan Principals Academy	NLCB Staff Development	Professional Development Library
Regional Comprehensive System of Personnel Development	Staff Development	Teacher Assistance Teams	True Colors	Pay Equity	Wellness Program
Principals' Leadership Academy	Partners in Policy Making	Child Welfare Training System (UofM)	Child Care Workers Training CFL	Poverty Awareness	Worksite Climate

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