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Enhancing Educator Development and Accountability through the CEEDAR Grant in Connecticut

The CEEDAR (Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform) Grant, funded by the US Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), aims to reform teacher and leadership preparation programs in Connecticut. This initiative focuses on embedding evidence-based practices, aligning licensure standards, refining personnel evaluation systems, and realigning policy structures to improve outcomes for students with disabilities. Key goals include designing pre-service curricula to enhance core instruction and support struggling learners, promoting effective evaluation, and fostering collaboration across educator preparation initiatives.

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Enhancing Educator Development and Accountability through the CEEDAR Grant in Connecticut

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  1. Connecticut Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Grant

  2. Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform • Funded by the US Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) as a technical assistance center to support states engaged in: • Reforming teacher and leadership preparation programs to embed evidence based practices • Revising licensure standards to align with reforms in teacher and leader preparation • Refining personnel evaluation systems in teacher and leader preparation programs • Realigning policy structures and professional learning systems • Goal: improving outcomes for students with disabilities.

  3. Intersection and Coherence of Reform Initiatives • Educator Evaluation and Professional Learning System Reform: Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) • Pre-service preparation reform: Educator Preparation Advisory Council (EPAC) • Network for Transforming Educator Preparation (NTEP) Grant • CEEDAR Grant • CCSS and Smarter Balanced Assessment Implementation • Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) Program • Scientific Research-Based Interventions (SRBI)

  4. State Outcome for the CEEDAR Grant 2013-2017 • Design and implementation of pre-service curricula for all TEACHER candidates (special education and non-special education) in order to provide opportunities to learn and demonstrate competency in evidence-based practices to improve core and specialized instruction to support SWD, ELLs and struggling learners reach college- and career-ready (CCR) standards in reading, writing and comprehension skills in argumentation. • Take a side of an argument and support it with evidence • Compare/contrast the authors perspective, key points/details (Grade 3) • Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably (Grade 4) • Analyze texts that address similar topics in order to build knowledge (Grade 9)

  5. Central Connecticut State University National &State Ed Prep Reform Initiatives Redesign (Partnerships) CTEC (Governance Structure) CEEDAR CCSS PBIS EBP SRBI

  6. Goal #1: Develop a set of core practices that will be emphasized throughout all of the teacher education programs in the Integrated Bachelor’s/Master’s track Goal #2: Develop a cross-endorsement licensure program for special education (SPED) and elementary education (EE)

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