Best Practices in Teacher Preparation

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1 Best Practices in Teacher Preparation May 9, 2014 Embassy Suites Hotel

2 Thank You to Our Underwriters BP Foundation Anchorage: Education Matters Inc. P.O. Box 92313, Anchorage, AK

3 Agenda 8:00 Registration opens 8:30 Welcome and Introductory Comments Check in comments by participants 9:15 Session #1: Using Student Outcomes to Assess Teacher Preparation: What Do We Know? Presenter: Dan Goldhaber, Director of the Center for Education Data & Research; Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell Presentation followed by dialogue in small groups and in plenary Ten minute break along the way 11:05 Session #2: Who is Doing Teacher Prep Well--Indicators of Teacher Quality and Best Practices Presenter: Kate Walsh, President, National Council on Teacher Quality Presentation followed by dialogue in small groups and in plenary Includes working lunch 1:00 Session #3: Evidence and Action: Motivating and Sustaining Program Improvement in Teacher Education Presenter: Cap Peck, Professor, College of Education, University of Washington Presentation followed by dialogue in small groups and in plenary 2:45 Table discussions Key themes emerging from presentations with high relevance and applicability for Anchorage teacher prep

4 3:30 Break 3:30 Session #4: Alaska s Opportunities and Challenges Reflection on the proceedings by Deans of UA s Schools and College of Education Heather Ryan, UAA Deborah Lo, UAS Alan Morotti, UAF 4:45 Wrap Up and Closing remarks

5 About our speakers Dan Goldhaber Dr. Dan Goldhaber is the Director of the Center for Education Data and Research, a research professor in interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, and a co-editor of Education Finance and Policy. Dan previously served as an elected member of the Alexandria City School Board from and as an associate editor of Economics of Education Review. Dan s work focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, the broad array of human capital policies that influence the composition, distribution, and quality of teachers in the workforce, and connections between students' K-12 experiences and postsecondary outcomes. Topics of published work in this area include studies of the stability of value-added measures of teachers, the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement, and the impact of teacher pay structure and licensure on the teacher labor market. Dan s research has been regularly published in leading peer-reviewed economic and education journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy and Management, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. The findings from these articles have been covered in more widely accessible media outlets such as National Public Radio, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Education Week. Dan holds degrees from the University of Vermont (BA, Economics) and Cornell University (MS and PhD, Labor Economics).

6 Kate Walsh Kate Walsh has served as the president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) since Before coming to NCTQ, she worked for The Abell Foundation in Baltimore, the Baltimore City Public Schools, and the Core Knowledge Foundation. Her work has tackled a broad spectrum of educational issues, with a primary focus on the needs of children who are disadvantaged by poverty and race. Among her accomplishments, she started and ran a boarding school in Kenya, East Africa to educate at-risk boys from Baltimore. Kate also developed one of the nation s premier programs in mathematics and science for middle and secondary public school students, a program that has yielded numerous Intel Talent Search winners. A long-time resident of Baltimore, she also started the first alternative certification program for teachers in Maryland, a project which led to her strong interest in teacher quality. Kate has since authored many papers on teacher quality, with a particular interest in the impact of the policies and practices of institutions, including states, unions, districts and teacher preparation programs, on the teaching profession. Charles (Cap) Peck Charles (Cap) Peck is currently professor of teacher education and special education at University of Washington. Cap served as Director of Teacher Education at the UW from 2003 to 2010, during which time the university underwent a major evidence-based program redesign process as part of its participation in the Teachers for A New Era Project (for which he served as Co-Director). Prior to his work at UW, Cap was Director of Teacher Education at University of California, Santa Barbara, and earlier served as Director of the Southwest Washington Educational Partnership for Professional Development a consortium of 54 urban and rural school districts. Cap s research work over the past decade has focused on policy implementation and systemic change in teacher education. He has been particularly concerned with factors affecting the extent to which programs of teacher education take up opportunities for program improvement that are afforded from new sources of outcome data.

7 About our UA panel Deborah Lo Dean, School of Education University of Alaska Southeast Dr. Lo joined UAS in August A native of the Florida Keys, Dr. Lo's background as an educator includes a variety of positions including both national and international work as a teacher, researcher, and administrator. Prior to joining UAS, she served as chair of the Department of Elementary, Early and Special Education for Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Prior to her position at Southeast Missouri, she was chair of the Education Department at the University of Scranton, a Jesuit university in Scranton, Penn. Dr. Lo earned a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's and master's degree from Florida State University. Alan Morotti Dean, School of Education University of Alaska Fairbanks Dr. Morotti holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon (an APA approved program). He joined the UAF School of Education in Prior to being appointed Dean, Dr. Morotti served as the School s Interim Dean. He is a Nationally Certified Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor. Previously, he held elementary teacher certifications in Alaska, California, and Oregon, in addition to K-12 professional school counseling certifications in Alaska and Oregon. In Fairbanks, he has acted as a clinical supervisor to counselors working for the Tanana Chiefs Conference mental health unit, the Interior AIDS Association, the Resource Center for Parents and Children, and has served as a consultant at the Regional Public Health Center. Dr. Morotti s experience includes elementary teaching and administrative experience in rural communities in Alaska, urban locations in the

8 lower 48, and international settings. He is a member of the American Red Cross (ARC) and a Mental Health Disaster Counselor for the ARC of Alaska Tanana Valley District. Dr. Morotti is a member of the Oxford Symposium on SchoolBased Family Counseling and an associate editor of its international journal. Heather Ryan Dean, College of Education University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Ryan grew up in a close-knit village in the Peace Country of Northern Alberta where she learned to cherish the contributions of committed teachers and supportive adults to the development of a healthy identity. Her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (1995) focussed on collaboration in education and its influence on human development. She learned a great deal about university administration through her time as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina, which was enriched by completion of the Senior University Administrator s Course (hosted by the University of Manitoba) in She has taught since 1971, ranging from teaching five-year old new entrants in New Zealand to read, to teaching secondary sciences to young and old at Alberta College, to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Alberta, Massey University in New Zealand, and the University of Regina. Dr. Ryan joined UAA as Dean in 2013.