PAKETHIA HARRIS
The CIFR Part B Community of Practice is a venue for stakes to come together by topic.
DANIELLE CRAIN
Held every month at the same time, they know they have one singular place where they can ask those sensitive questions.
PAKETHIA HARRIS
An outlet to really understand your job and to connect with others.
DANIELLE CRAIN
It is an opportunity for both seasoned and new staff to learn from each other.
STEVE SMITH
Typically, when you’re in a state educational agency and you’re working with IDEA fiscal reporting, you’re likely the only person that does that job. There’s not somebody that can answer your questions. There’s not somebody that can guide you and mentor you through the process.
CAROL SEAY
How other states meet requirements, how they create guidance for their local school districts.
ALLISON DAVEY
If you have a concern or a challenge that you’re facing, you don’t have to do it alone. In all likelihood, another member of that community of practice has faced something similar.
STEVE SMITH
Some people have been doing the job for decades. Some people have been doing the job for six months.
DANIELLE CRAIN
They may not have your exact job title or your exact position, but they are conducting similar fiscal tasks.
CAROL SEAY
Your predecessor may have done things a certain way that doesn’t fit your style.
DANIELLE CRAIN
Some new ideas or some better ways to collect the data or to report the data.
CAROL SEAY
More streamlined, more thorough.
STEVE SMITH
You can continue those connections in person, develop those relationships.
ALLISON DAVEY
You’re creating your own network of support that you might not otherwise have in your state agencies.
PAKETHIA HARRIS
Join more than one, especially knowing that often in the role that fiscal managers play, that they’re just not handling one aspect but several.
ALLISON DAVEY
If we don’t find the answers during the community of practice, CIFR staff will always follow up and get those answers for you and bring them back to the group.
CAROL SEAY
Everyone’s busy these days, but taking one hour a month out to join this community of practice, I think you would find it very, very valuable use of your time.
