Welcome Education Unit Retreat

1. WelcomeEducation Unit Retreat May 23, 2013

2. Agenda • Updates and Announcements • NCATE Report Overview • NCATE Committee Reports • Field Placements • Tk20 and SPA Data and State Report Data • Dispositions Assessments and Education Unit Reviews • Reflections from the Dean

3. Updates and Announcements • NCATE Accreditation—Thank you for a job well done! • Deb Fnine • Still waiting on State Report • May 29—Educator Evaluation System • May 30—Teacher Preparation and Common Core Standards • Leadership Institute on Reflective Practice • Randy Howe • Accomplishments

4. Accomplishments!

5. Annamary Consalvo • Carried out in YA Lit  Fall 2012: Special Projects Grant: Academic Programming to Enhance a Global Perspective, Fitchburg State University - $500. Young Adult literature book club books to support diverse perspectives. • Carried out in Intro to Sec. School Teaching Fall 2012: Innovation Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, Fitchburg State University - $1,000. Professional development book clubs: Rigor and caring in secondary writing and reading instruction.   • Travel undertaken in Nov. 2012 --Special Projects Grant: Travel, Fitchburg State University - $700.  To present THREE papers at Literacy Research Association Conference, 2012, San Diego.

6. Annamary Consalvo • April 2013 — AERA • Consalvo, A., Schallert, D. L., and Elias, E.  A critical examination of legitimate peripheral participation as a lens in literacy research. Paper to be presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. • Slotnick, R., Cratsely, C., Lerch, C., Consalvo, A.,  & Benway, G. Towards a more socially just and equitable system of higher education: Collaborative faculty partnerships for outcomes-based assessment between two-year and four-year institutions. Paper to be presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.  

7. Joann Nichols • March, 2013: Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship for foreign travel to study Italian preschool model

8. Shari Stokes • Chaired Education Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Five proposals were passed by AUC and await the President's approval.

9. Terry Thomas SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS: • “Scholar Talk: on Sacco and Vanzetti,” with playwright Bruce Robinson and director Kelly Morgan after performance of “Saco & Vanzetti (Vince, Al & Teddy),” April 3, 2013. • “Italian Women and War” for Women’s History Month panel discussion, March 18, 2013. • “Naturalization, Citizenship and Italian Americans” for Constitution Day Panel Discussion, Fitchburg State University, September 17, 2012.

10. Terry Thomas PUBLICATION: • “Retrospective Review: Giuseppe Grava and Giovanni Tomasi” in News on the Rialto: Newsletter for Studies on Venetian History, 2012, published at BYU, funded by Gladys KriebleDelmas Foundation. CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED: • “Sarah Wool Moore and the Education of Italian Immigrants” at Italian American Studies Association conference, formerly AIHA, Hofstra University, New York, November 29, 2012.

11. Laurie DeRosa Leadership Roles: • Vice President of the international KDP Executive Board • Faculty Event Director: Special Olympics • Fitchburg State University Faculty Speaker Series Presenter:ePals Global Community • Workshop Presenter: ePals Global Community • Accepted Presenter:  Technology workshop at Bridgewater State University in August 2013 Professional role: • Member NCATE Standard Four Committee • Student Success Advisor for Early Childhood • EEC Grant Advisor: Career Paths 

12. Laurie DeRosa Publication: • Chapter accepted for Teacher Leadership Book to be published  2014: Teacher as Leader in Curriculum Reform: Integrating the Expressive Arts • Submitted article for publication to KDP Records:  Exploring the Two Sides of the ePals Global Community: Social and Educational  Unpublished: • Children's Book: A to Z Animals from Massachusetts • Children's Book: Looking Outside our Window: Massachusetts

13. Denise LaFrance • Finished doctorate!!!!!! • Paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association AAA titled Systems of Accountability and Technologies of Governmentality:  Policy, Practice and Pre-Service Education.   • Dissertation nominated for an award at AAA.  

14. Anne Howard • Awarded contract form the Offices of the Tiered System of Support and Special Education Planning and Policy Development to teach the Summer Professional Development Institute entitled  Tools and Strategies for Paraprofessionals in Inclusive Settings. 

15. Anyone Else?

17. Door Prize!

18. Standard 2 Report Shana Goldwyn

19. Focus for the 2012-2013 Academic Year • Analysis of Unit-wide Data • NCATE Preparation • Analysis of Data of the Fairness of Assessment System • Discussion of License Specific Questions

20. Analysis of Unit-wide Data • There had been discussion last year about the possibility of raising the benchmark above 90%, perhaps 92%. However, we determined that if we continue to look at lowest mean there is no need to raise the benchmark

21. Analysis of Unit Wide Data • Undergraduate Level • Strengths – Areas not outlined in the challenges • Challenges – Technology, IEPs, Advising, Classroom and Behavior Management, American and Civic Culture • Graduate Level • Strengths – Areas not outlined in the challenges • Challenges – Technology, IEPs

22. NCATE Preparation • Preparing the Unit • Group work on each standard • Understand the comprehensive nature of the assessment system, particularly in the keeping of data from off campus programs

23. Analysis of Data of the Fairness of Assessment System • Need to go back to inter-rater reliability and calibration activities • Discussion to begin modular training on Blackboard • We need exemplar key assessments • Need consistency with uploading data in TK20

24. Future Work Goals for 2013-2014 • Better compliance with Tk20 • Train adjuncts on Tk20 • Get Extended Campus Partners using Tk20 • Include adjunct and extended campus in examination of grad data • Work on calibration of all groups including mentor teachers • Constituents examine at data • Look at TPA to view potential impact on our programs

25. Future Work Tasks for 2013-2014 • Plan data meetings for constituents • Finish the calibration modules on Bb with Mike Leamy. Set this up in 2013-14 for implementation in 2014-15 • Review IR and do what we said we would do. Plan those tasks.

26. Door Prize!

27. Standard 3 Report Annette Sullivan, Ann Hogan, Jason Miles

28. SEI Courses • Syllabi • Program Changes for state approval • Timeline

29. Updates Mentor Teacher Eligibility Requirements-additional • Qualified Mentors must have received an evaluation rating of proficient or higher on the Educator Evaluation System, if implemented within the district. • Implemented for Fall 2013 • Verified by Principal on two forms 1. Mentor Teacher Supervising Practitioner Application 2. Authorization Form for Field Experience Placement

30. Mentor Teacher Supervising Practitioner Application

31. Authorization Form for Field Experience Placement

32. Recording of Practicum Hours and 100 Hours in Full Responsibility See blue sample Full Responsibility is defined as time spent teaching a lesson or unit that involved the candidate’s comprehensive development, implementation, assessment and follow-up including responsibility for classroom set up and management of transitions and behaviors.

33. Recording of Practicum Hours and 100 Hours in Full Responsibility Implementing Fall 2013 • Will be printed in duplicate (Licensure Office and Candidate) • Will be included • in Practicum Handbook in Appendices • on edunit website, forms library • in Candidate practicum packet

34. License Specific Evaluation Questions See goldenrod sample Previously included on the green pages of the Practicum Handbook as instructions and guidelines for supervisors for completion of PPA Standard B 2(c) Demonstrates an adequate knowledge of and approach to the academic content of lessons.

35. License Specific Evaluation Questions • DESE - we need to explicitly assess candidates on the questions. • Implementing Fall 2013 • Will be printed in triplicate (Licensure file, University supervisor, Candidate)

36. License Specific Evaluation Questions • Will be included: • in Practicum Handbook Appendices • on Ed Unit website, forms library • in Candidate practicum packet • in University and Supervising Practitioner supervision folder • History, English and Biology will have crosswalk completed to determine gaps with current assessment tools (NCTE, NCSS, NSTA)

37. Fingerprinting Legislation A school shall obtain a state and national fingerprint-based criminal background check…for the purpose of determining the suitability of current and prospective employees of the school department who may have direct and unmonitored contact with children. http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/BillHtml/119472?generalCourtId=1

38. Door Prize!

39. Fingerprinting Legislation Implementing Fall 2013 • Current employees have 3 years to submit their fingerprints • Includes anyone working/volunteering in a school, school related transportation and subcontractors/laborers who work on school grounds.  • Fees - one time fee from $35 to $55. May increase over time. • Process for obtaining fingerprints still has not been determined "The regulations may reflect a phased-in schedule for finger-print based background checks, provided, however, that such phase-in shall not begin prior to September. 1, 2013. ”

40. Next Steps with Partnerships

41. Next Steps with Partnerships • MOUs formally signed • Reflective Practice and PLCs

42. Pre-Practicum Procedures McKay Arts Academy Dan Hanneken & Jason Miles

43. Pre-Practicum Procedures at McKay Arts Forward any courses with a pre-practicum component to Jason Miles with expected number of students, number of hours, and packet of paperwork (forms, etc.) to jmiles6@fitchburgstate.eduby August 15. Dan will create a block schedule for candidates to sign up. Jason will forward this by September 4. Return the sign up sheets to Jason by Sept 13. If you have students schedules that change at all, forward the updated schedule to Jason by Friday prior to the upcoming week. If you have existing relationships with Supervising Practitioners, we will continue to maintain and support those relationships. We hope to create more established relationships between faculty and supervising practitioners.

44. Lunch!!

45. Door Prize!

46. Standard 4 Report Wayne Whitfield

47. Loss of Potential Partnership • Closesure of Atlantic Union College • We have come up with alternative possibilities

48. Measuring Diversity • We have triangulated the data regarding diversity provided by multiple measures. • They are… • Candidate Dispositions • Lesson Plan Scoring Sheet • Observation Report • Practicum Evaluation Report • Teacher Work Sample

49. What We Found • Based on the identified measures, improvement in the area has been seen. • Student Exit Surveys, however, indicate both graduate and undergraduate candidates express concern regarding the use of IEP’s to plan strategies for integrating students with disabilities into the classroom. • The committee will work to close the perception disparity between faculty and candidates in this area.

50. Actions to be Taken • Develop a strategy to bring consistency to the collection of pre and post data from diversity courses and activities. • In our Strategic Plan and Academic Plan, there are multiple strategies for creating a “Culture of Diversity.”