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Beyond Partnerships: Building Great Teaching Together Rod Lucero Associate Professor, CSU, Fort Collins Jennifer Roth Fort Collins High School Nick Baltzel Social Studies Teacher, Fort Collins High School Mark LaCelle-Peterson November 4,

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Beyond Partnerships: Building Great Teaching Together

Rod Lucero Associate Professor, CSU, Fort Collins Jennifer Roth Fort Collins High School Nick Baltzel Social Studies Teacher, Fort Collins High School Mark LaCelle-Peterson Vice President for Policy and Programs, AACTE

November 4, 2014 Chicago, IL

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

A most momentous anniversary

175 years ago this fall…

1st US teacher preparation program established,
fulfilling a dream of our 1st chief state school
fficer, Horace Mann:
the Normal School in Lexington, Mass., (1st of 3),
our first explicit, effective policy effort to ensure

effective teachers for democratic public schools

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Why create a new institution to do it?

…because the then-new common schools, the already-established secondary schools (academies, seminaries, grammar schools) and the (some of them) long-established colleges were altogether disconnected from each other. Teacher Education filled a void and created connections.

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175th Anniversary Congratulations to

State education departments The profession of teaching ….and to all of us!

We’ve been at this for a long time! ….and we’re not finished yet.

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

What is our challenge today?

Ensuring coherent entry into a great profession. …we haven’t fully solved the ‘connection’ problem Can we grow beyond ‘partnerships’ that are locally negotiated & personality dependent to a policy-supported integrated ‘pipeline’ that creates a coherent transition from preparation, through articulated clinical experiences, to induction/residencies, to practice and persistence?

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Every system is perfectly designed to achieve the

utcomes it produces.

—Tony Bryk Overall, our career entry system gives us…

Insufficient high-quality sites for candidates
High rates of turnover in clinical personnel
Challenges coordinating across systems

— Adversely impacting consistency and data

Brilliant problem-solvers and negotiators

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Despite our challenges, however, we have numerous local examples of excellent partnerships for clinical preparation that are: —personally negotiated —require extraordinary effort —provide tremendous benefit —are often short-lived….but not always!

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

The “rule” has been to bank on the exceptions— exceptional efforts by exceptional individuals with exceptional support for limited duration. But a few ‘lighthouse’ relationships have been enduring and effective

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

…a tip from a valued mentor

The key to success is simple….

never do anything for the first time. —Bob Menges

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Some relationships are built to last

Colorado State University in partnership with Poudre School District and Thompson School District Partners for +22 years 6 high school sites 12 junior high sites

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Fort Collins High School

Leroy Clyde

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Mutuality

How are matches made? Who feels responsible? Why has it lasted?

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Persistence

Tough job, tough market, why do some thrive? What aspects of preparation matter? What supports persistence?

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Impact

What difference do the candidates make? How do practicing educators benefit? Does the model matter?

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

The last words go to Horace Mann…

Where anything is growing, a single former is worth a thousand reformers. Let us not be content to wait and see what happens, give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Horace Mann (1796-1859)

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Thank You!

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