The Michigan Merit Curriculum Personal Curriculum ActPoint™ RoadMaps are now available for use by local districts. ActPoint will also offer a series of Webinars to help counselors and other designated district staff familiar with these helpful decision-making tools.

Local districts can register for a unique user name and password (FREE) at www.actpoint.com/mmcpc. You will also have an opportunity to register for one of three new-user webinars to be held on the following dates: 6/15, 6/16 and 6/24)

About ActPoint Road Maps:
The Road Maps transform the processes associated with the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC) Personal Curriculum (PC) into clear, consistent, accurate step-by-step procedures for stakeholders to follow. The service is possible at no cost to districts for the 2009-10 school hear through a collaborative  effort between Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators (MAISA), the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), and TransACT Communications, Inc., who developed the automated, self-service decision-tree application. The MMC PC ActPoint RoadMaps were released on May 8 for ISD review.

They are being made available now to local education agencies (LEAs) through the intermediate school districts (ISDs) that have opted to implement the RoadMaps (currently all ISDs except Macomb ISD and Oakland Schools). All licensing fees for participating ISDs are being paid by the MAISA for the first year of implementation. Non-traditional public schools and institutions serving adjudicated youth that grant Michigan high school diplomas may access the ActPoint™ RoadMaps through the ISD in which they reside.

ActPoint™ is a next-generation, automated, self-service decision tree solution that lets school systems extend decision making authority to non-technical teams while maintaining accuracy, quality and consistency of action. The MMC PC ActPoint™ RoadMaps are intended to be used by parents, students and school personnel to assist them with implementing the PC process by providing RoadMaps at critical decision-making points. These points include:

• Requesting a personal curriculum (RoadMap, also available for parents/legal guardians and emancipated students)
• Determining personal curriculum eligibility
• Making Algebra II and additional content modifi cations
• Making modifi cations available only to students with an individualized education program
• Making modifi cations available only to transfer students
• Finalizing and implementing a personal curriculum
• Determining whether a PC will lead to a diploma

By using the RoadMaps, LEAs will be able to achieve consistent MMC PC decisions, aligned with legislative requirements and MDE’s guidance, across the state of Michigan.

For more information regarding the ActPoint™ RoadMaps, please visit http://www.actpoint.com/mi; contact your local ISD. Or contact Jon Tomlanovich at jont@gomasa.org.