Statewide BTSA Directors Meeting

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Statewide BTSA Directors Meeting

• May 19-21, 2003
• Sacramento, California

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Welcome

• from
• Cluster One

The California Department of Education
The California Commission on Teacher
Credentialing
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State Leadership Team

• BTSA Task Force
• Tom Lugo, CDE Margaret Olebe, CCTC
• Co- Administrators
• CCTC Teri Clark, Cheryl Hickey, Karen Sacramento
• CDE Jaymee Kjelland, Sarah Solari, Jean Treiman

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State Leadership Team

• Cluster 1 Cindy Gappa, Kathleen Hanson, Pam
  Mullin
• Cluster 2 Alice Bullard, Phyllis Bravinder, Liz
  Rusk
• Cluster 3 Joseph Jimenez, Mikie Loughridge, Judy
  Roberts

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State Leadership Team

• Cluster 4 Gina Nolte, LaRie Colosimo, Tara Swall
• Cluster 5 Loren Tarantino, Cindy Douglas
• Cluster 6 Tim Edge, Mary Rockwell

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Statewide Directors Meeting Planning Committee

• Candy Garmire
• Loren Tarantino
• Jaymee Kjelland
• Kathleen Hansen
• Gordon Surface
• Joseph Jimenez
• Karen Fischer

• Barbara Shinn
• Pam Mullin
• Cindy Gappa
• Gina Nolte
• Alice Bullard
• Tahnee Dickerson

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Margaret Fortune

• Chair, California Commission on Teacher
  Credentialing

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SB 2042 Induction Programs

• Progress
• Toward
• Full Implementation

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Approved Induction Programs

• Sacramento BTSA Consortium
• Santa Cruz New Teacher Project BTSA
• Greenfield Union SD BTSA
• San Luis Obispo COE BTSA
• Kern County SOS BTSA
• Kern High SD BTSA
• Panama-Buena Vista Union SD BTSA
• Norwalk-La Mirada USD BTSA
• RIMS BTSA-Riverside COE
• San Joaquin COE BTSA
• Bakersfield City SD BTSA
• Butte COE BTSA
• Belmont-Redwood Shores SD/Peninsula NTP
• Rowland USD BTSA
• Escondido USD BTSA
• Rialto USD BTSA
• Westside Union ESD BTSA

• Napa COE BTSA
• Modesto City BTSA
• Tri County BTSA (Sutter COE)
• Palo Alto USD BTSA
• Elk Grove BTSA
• Manteca USD
• Tulare COE BTSA
• Chino Valley BTSA
• Palmdale ESD BTSA
• Davis-Winters-Esparto-BTSA
• Stockton USD BTSA
• Fremont USD BTSA
• Walnut Valley BTSA
• East County Consortium BTSA
• Fullerton Jt. Union HSD BTSA
• Ontario-Montclair SD BTSA
• Sonoma COE BTSA

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Independent Evaluation of BTSA

• Overview

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Key Findings

• Retention in the profession for both first- and
  second- year BTSA teachers is approximately 93.
• During statewide expansion the level of services
  remained the same or increased.
• The effectiveness of BTSA support is challenged
  by workplace conditions.

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Key Findings

• BTSA has also had effects that reach beyond the
  programs main purpose of supporting beginning
  teachers.
• There are no existing methods for adequately
  capturing beginning teacher knowledge and skills.
  A series of studies incorporating two approaches
  is recommended.

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Key Findings

• The organizational structures have helped
  teachers create intellectual communities that
  improve teacher practices as well as student
  achievement.
• Positive support structures that were identified
  are the BTSA Task Force, cluster structures,
  state-developed formative assessment system,
  state-developed trainings, director meetings, and
  formal and informal program reviews.

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Ongoing Challenges

• Identifying optimal strategies for selecting and
  assigning support providers to beginning
  teachers.
• Better articulating how support and assessment
  are complementary.
• Stabilizing BTSA Task Force membership.

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Ongoing challenges..

• Meeting the financial and structural challenges
  of large regional consortia
• Competing for support providers with other
  programs that rely on coaches

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Formal Program Review RevisionRecommendations

• Standards Findings
• Program Approval
• Due Process
• Informal Program Review

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Governors Revised Budget Proposal

• Restores full funding to
• Class size reduction, Special Education,
  Accountability, Child Nutrition, and School
  Safety.
• Removes proposed block grants.
• Governor still open to Block Granting.
• 3.5 Increase in ADA to 6,869 per pupil.
• Significant reductions for
• Teaching as a Priority, Peer Assistance and
  Review, School Improvement, and others.
• Funding levels unchanged for Paraprofessional,
  Pre-Intern and Intern Programs

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The Future

• Overall . . . the achievement of BTSA is
  remarkable. The language used by Task Force
  members, CCs, PDCs, program directors, SPs, and
  others is the language of family and community.
  In a state as large and complex as California,
  and within the current policy environment, the
  importance of maintaining a sense of communities
  of learners cannot be overstated.
• Independent Evaluation of BTSA, West Ed, 2001

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The Future Beginning teacher voices.

• One thing that really helped me is my support
  provider, she would never give it to me, the
  information. She would make me think.
• I dont want to be that teacher that sticks with
  the same thing no matter who is in the class.you
  have to change, not the kids..this is what BTSA
  teaches..

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The Future - Beginning teacher voices..

• With BTSAit is ingrained now, I reflect every
  day. I plan on a weekly basis. I teach the
  lesson. I go home and reflect on What could I
  have done better? What can I do to get that kid
  more engaged, because today he or she
  wasnt.What new strategies should I use? You
  dont have to think about it, it just happens.