College of Education Welcome Back Faculty and Staff Meeting

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College of Education Welcome Back Faculty and
Staff Meeting

• September 20, 2005

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Thank you!
The delicious muffins were provided through a
generous donation from CostCo!
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Many thanks to WOU Facilities and Grounds
Maintenance!

• ED 217
• OPE 117
• OPE 117A
• Gymnasium lights
• Track surface
• COE back entrance
• COE front entrance

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Shades of Yellow

Lemon Bar Yellow
Mellow Yellow
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COE Office Migrations

• New faculty
• Existing faculty
• Faculty on sabbatical
• Storage space
• Office personnel
• Computer installations

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Many Thanks!

• Tiffany Smith
• Kris Dalton
• Delphine Freshour
• Becky Graber
• Pam Ward
• Marita Cardinal
• Linda Stonecipher
• Gwenda Rice
• Karleen Adams

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The Deans Summer 2005

• Hosted 2 PLS courses for 30 WOU mentor teachers
  and faculty with DEP
• Attended and presented at COSA
• Served on Chalkboards Personnel Quality
  Committee
• Served on an NCATE/TSPC program review team
• Served on the WOU Collective Bargaining
  Management Team

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The Deans Summer 2005

• Worked with the Education Pathways to Teaching
  Committee
• Submitted the TSPC annual report for the College
• Worked with Academic Affairs on COE 2005-06
  budget
• Worked with DEP to consolidate the coordination
  and fiscal budgets for both MAT programs within
  the College of Education

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Migration Trails
Tales
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Welcome to WOU!

• New Tenure Earning Faculty Appointments for the
  2005-2006 Year
• Jacqueline Kelleher
• Karie Mize
• Chloe Myers
• Tracy Smiles
• Amanda Smith

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Introduction of New Faculty, Staff and Adjuncts

• Teacher Education--Gwenda Rice
• Special Education--Cheryl Davis
• Health and Physical Education--Linda Stonecipher

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Other new faces around the College
Susan Griffin MAT program Darrin Divers ESL
instructor for LAS Andrew Russell-Wynings Devel
opment Officer
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Sabbaticals This Year

• Wangeci Gatimu from Teacher Education
  Division--Fall Term
• Hank Bersani from Special Education
  Division--Fall, Winter and Spring

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Welcome Back from Sabbatical

• Mickey Pardew from Special Education
  Division--Fall Term
• Marita Cardinal from Health and Physical
  Education Division--Fall, Winter and Spring

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COE Peer Mentoring

• 3rd year of Induction Mentoring
• 2nd year of Portfolio Mentoring
• Thank you Peer Mentoring Committee and all
  mentors!

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2005-06 Portfolio Mentoring

• Mary Bucy --------------------------------------Su
  e Dauer
• Maria Dantas Whitney--------------------Adele
  Schepige
• Cheryl Davis --------------------------------Hank
  Bersani
• Mark Girod ------------------------------- Adele
  Schepige
• Robert Hautala -------------------------------
  Brian Caster
• Jessica Henderson ---------------------Linda
  Stonecipher
• Elisa Maroney ----------------------------------Ju
  lia Smith
• Mary Scarlato -------------------------- Bob
  Brownbridge
• Peggy Pedersen -------------------------- Marita
  Cardinal
• Gay Timken --------------------------- Linda
  Stonecipher

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2005-06 Induction Mentoring

• Jacqueline Kelleher-------------Gwenda Rice
• Chloe Myers-------------------Mary Reynolds
• Karie Mize -------------------------Mary Bucy
• Tracy Smiles ---------------------Mark Girod
• Amanda Smith--------Maria Dantas Whitney

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Mentor and Mentee Gathering

• Tuesday, September 20th
• (Change in date!)
• 3 to 5 PM
• Gentle House
• Bring a small snack to share for two
• Beverages provided by Deans Office

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Critical Themes for 2005-06

• Accreditation
• Accountability
• Assessment (including follow up studies)
• Increasing Enrollment
• Recruitment
• Retention
• Articulation
• Program viability

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Two Year Count DownNCATE and TSPC

• Formation of 7 faculty clusters
• Sharing of responsibilities
• Development of timeline
• Full implementation of COE database
• Training and preparation for all involved
• Thoughtful planning for the tasks remaining

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The Secret to WOUs Successful NCATE/TSPC
Reaccreditation

• Faculty and staff at the College of Education are
  using the Easy button to help them feel
  prepared and ready for their visit in 2007.
• gfx.dvlabs.com/.../sta001/easy_button.html

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IMPORTANT Meeting for ALL faculty involved in
Teacher Preparation

• Friday, September 23rd
• ED 217
• 800 - Noon

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NWCCU Accreditation

• KEY College Reps
• Marita Cardinal
• Elisa Maroney
• Adele Schepige
• Others as needed
• Date of visit Spring 2007

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November 7, 2005

• College of Education Faculty Meeting
• 9 AM to 2 PM
• Lunch provided
• Re-accreditation tasks
• NCATE
• TSPC
• NWCCU

Mark your calendar!
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NEW GOALS FOR 2005-06
All syllabi posted on College website.
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Accountability

• WOU Performance Target Reports
• See handout

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Assessment

• WOU Learning Aspirations
• Lumina Project Assessments
• National Study of Student Engagement
• Exit surveys
• Alumni surveys
• Employer satisfaction surveys
• COE Database

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What is EDSMART?

• Educator
• Data
• Storage,
• Management, and
• Analytical
• Research
• Tool

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Database Update--EDSMART

• Admissions data--staff and faculty
• Interview data--faculty
• Dispositions form--faculty serving as university
  supervisors
• Field experience forms--formative and
  summative--faculty serving as university
  supervisors
• Teacher Work samples-- faculty
• Classroom Context--students

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COE Inclusivity Survey

• Year 2 of Data Collection
• The COE Diversity Committee will review and
  summarize the results to share with the College.

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Fall WOU Admission Figures
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COE Student Credit Hours Comparison
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COE Faculty FTE for Fixed Term Tenured/Tenure
Earning-3 Yrs.
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Enrollment Ideas for COE

• Recruitment
• Market courses to new markets
• Improve articulation efforts with feeder
  programs
• Alternative course/program delivery models
• Retention
• Early warning systems
• Reducing low enrollment courses
• Target (100 credits per term)
• Combine sections
• Offer fewer sections each year
• Increase cohort sizes or collapse number of
  cohorts

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Budget Reductions

• Reducing overloads
• Reviewing low enrollment courses
• Standardizing formulas for calculating field
  experience assignments
• Defer all 5COE searches at least one year

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Articulation Efforts

• Primary formal agreements are with Chemeketa
  Community College
• Goal Increase number of agreements

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Education Pathways to Teaching

• WOU is represented on a 65 member task force
  responding to the Governors call and the OUS
  Joint Boards priority for access to higher
  education for Oregons citizens
• Hosting a meeting Friday, December 9th for CC
  advisors, High School counselors, and 4 year
  program faculty
• Streamlining advising information and application
  information
• Exploring development of common education courses
  that could be offered at community colleges or at
  4 year institutions.

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Program Viability/Reviews

• Review of each program
• Market demand
• Trend data on applications, admissions,
  enrollment, graduation rates
• Competitors
• Comparators
• Cost ratio

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WOU selected by Carnegie Corporation to join
network

• One of 30 institutions selected to join the
  Teachers for a New Era Learning Network
• Learn from and interchange ideas with

• University of Connecticut
• University of Texas at El Paso
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Bank Street College of Education Boston
College California State University,
Northridge Florida AM University Michigan
State University Stanford University
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Guided by 3 principles

• Leadership on the part of the presidents of
  supported institutions that elevates the role and
  importance of schools of education within the
  university community and a design that builds on
  research evidence
• Top-level collaboration between university
  faculty in the arts and sciences with the school
  of education faculty to ensure that prospective
  teachers are well grounded in specific
  disciplines and provided a liberal arts
  education
• Establishment of teaching as a clinical
  profession, with master teachers mentoring
  students in a formal two-year residency as they
  make the transition from college to classroom.

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• Honoring our Past--Founders Week-Jan 2006
• Teaching artifacts exhibit--
• Oral histories project--
• Education timeline--
• Showcasing the Present
• Honorary doctorate for Richard Woodcock-Spring
• Distinguished panel and guest lecture
• Charting the Future
• Public forum on Autism--Spring
• Launch Teacher Plus Initiative--Spring

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1956 Alumni Student Study Lounge
Proposed

• Utilizes space on first floor of ED
• A welcoming area for students to study
• ClubEd to help maintain space
• Available for any COE student meetings
• To be funded by donors

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Thoughts about Tenure Promotion

• Teaching
• Course development, review, and refinement
• Innovative teaching strategies
• Evidence of student learning
• SIR evaluations
• Peer observations

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The COE Book Club

• Preparing Teachers for a Changing World What
  Teachers Should Learn and Be Able to Do
• Linda Darling Hammond and others
• Open to WOU community
• Support for scholarship of teaching
• Meets bi-monthly on Fridays from 12 noon to 130
  starting October 7th
• Facilitated by Mark Girod and Amanda Smith
• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
  John Cotton Dana

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Thoughts about Tenure Promotion

• Scholarship
• Single or co-authored peer-reviewed presentations
  and publications
• Original intellectual work
• Peer validation
• Shared with others
• Funded grant proposals

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• V Formation
• Supportive and collegial group
• Voluntary participation
• Support for scholarship and progress in academia
• We can encourage each other by celebrating
  successes and supporting each other when we
  experience challenges or set backs.

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AACTE Conference

• Please let Karleen know if you are planning to
  attend so that you are eligible for lower
  registration rates.

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Carol Ann Tomlinson

• Wednesday, October 5th in Columbia Room
• Time 1130 AM to 430 PM
• COE to cover registrations for 15 COE faculty
• PURPOSE Half a day with faculty from Oregons
  Schools and Colleges of Education to discuss how
  differentiation is addressed in Teacher Work
  Samples required in teacher preparation.

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OACTE Collaborative Research Study on TWSM

• Meet with Dr. Ron Beghetto, Research Design
  Specialist
• 9 AM to 11 AM
• Columbia Room, Werner Center
• No cost
• Opportunities for research, presentations, and
  publications

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Thoughts about Tenure Promotion

• Service
• Division, College, University, Community,
  Professional Associations

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Service opportunities

• COE Committees and Work Groups
• COE Diversity Committee--Chloe Myers and Linda
  Cress
• Dispositions Work Group--Mary Scarlato
• Peer Mentoring Committee--David Wright, Linda
  Keller, or Marita Cardinal
• University Public Relations
• Academic All Stars COE rep--
• Requested by Cheryl Gaston

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Crystal Apple Awards Banquet

• Honors exceptional staff in Salem Keizer
• Award nominations due October 9
• Banquet in Salem Thursday, November 17th
• WOU 2,400 Scholarship
• COE will host 1 table--See Karleen
• Need Student Volunteers!

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Social Events Upcoming

• COE Faculty and Staff FAMILY Picnic and COE Game
  Day at the Wolves Football Game against Humboldt
  State
• Saturday, October 29th
• Potluck picnic-1200 noon
• Children welcome
• Football game at 1 PM

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Social Events Upcoming

• COE Faculty and Staff Holiday Social
• Saturday, December 3rd
• 6- 8 PM
• Location TBA

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Reflection on Katrina

• May the sadness and devastation that resulted
  from the forces of nature in Katrina teach us all
  to value that precious commodity called life, the
  daily comforts that we call home, our ability to
  go to work each day, and the value of
  predictability in our daily lives. Most
  important, may Katrina serve as a lasting
  reminder in history of the vast discrepancies
  that still exist in this country between the
  haves and the have nots and the injustices that
  continue in life around us each day.

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Operation School Kit

• See handout for details needed for
• Teacher Kit
• Elementary Student Kit
• Secondary Student Kit
• All items must be collected in ED 202 by Tuesday,
  September 27th