Opportunities for Continuous Improvement in Educator Preparation: The CAEP Update

1. Update on CAEP: Opportunities for Continuous Improvement James G. Cibulka October 18, 2013

2. Current Criticism of Accreditation • Focus on inputs rather than outcomes • Stifles innovation • Lacks transparency • Too costly and burdensome • Fails to provide meaningful information to protect consumers • Failure to close low-performing programs

3. Criticism of Educator Preparation and the Problem of Evidence • Accreditation not coherent, outcomes driven or empirically grounded • Lack of selectivity of candidates • Weak clinical practice • Programs not responsive to district’s needs • Lack of focus on P-12 student learning

4. New Accreditor, New Standards: Leverage Points for Continuous Improvement • Building partnerships and strong clinical experiences • Raising and assuring educator-candidate quality • Including all providers • Judging preparation by outcomes and impact on P-12 student learning • Evidence and continuous improvement • Research and development and innovation • Choice for EPPs and States

5. CAEP’s Partnership with Ohio Board of Regents • Development of state partnership agreement in 2012Benefits: • Streamline processes • Saves time and money • Flexibility/multiple pathways, one goal:enhancing P-12 student learning • State Alliance on Clinical Practice and Partnerships • 12 state initiative with various providers and contexts • Opportunities to share innovations and best practice through a networked improvement community

6. Role of Data in Continuous Improvement • “Era of Big Data” • State accountability systems • Common data points and assessment tools • Benefits of state and national accreditor partnership • Capacity building • Shared collection and use of data • Identification of common measures for benchmarking

7. Timeline for CAEP Standards Accreditation under new standards • Two-year transition period through 2015 • EPPs may choose to come up for accreditation under NCATE Standards. TEAC Quality Principles, or CAEP Standards, or both NCATE/CAEP or TEAC/CAEP to achieve dual accreditation • Spring 2016 (date of self-study submission) for accreditation visits scheduled for Fall 2016 is the earliest CAEP Standards will be required

8. Standards Implementation Guidance By the end of January 2014 • CAEP eligibility guidance for EPPs seeking accreditation for the first time • Self-study guidance on demonstrating CAEP Standards • Glossary • Templates • Evidence expectations: What, Where, How, Quality • Decision-making process, heuristic, and procedures No later than mid-March 2014 • Site visitor protocols, report templates • Process and Priorities of Review

9. Opportunity for Collaboration and Capacity-Building • Program Review with Feedback Option • Partnerships with P-12 school districts to build a robust clinical practice system • Continuous Improvement • Leveraging Ohio’s unique context • strong collaboration among public and private EPPs • data capacity