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Title: TNE Learning Network Meeting: Institutional Change in Teacher Education
Dates: 10/29/2007 - 10/31/2007
Location:
The Westin Tabor Center Hotel
1672 Lawrence Street · Denver, Colorado 80202

Sponsor:
The Annenberg Foundation with additional support from Carnegie Corporation of New York


The theme of this year’s annual meeting is institutional change in teacher education, examined through the perspectives of reform in and among school districts, universities, and departments. Sessions are also anticipated on K-12 partnerships around induction, and linking pupil achievement to teacher performance.


Agenda:
“Institutional Change in Teacher Education”:
Third Annual Meeting of the TNE Learning Network
WestinTaborCenter
Denver, Colorado
October 29-October 31, 2007
 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007                                                                                                                 
MEETING AGENDA

 
2:00-5:00 p.m.       Registration       
                                                                  
5:00 p.m.                Opening Address                                                               
Dwight D. Jones, Commissioner of Education, State of Colorado
Introduction: Gail Levin, Annenberg Foundation
 
6:00 p.m.                Reception                                                                           

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007                                                                                                                     

7:30-5:00 p.m.       Registration                                                                       
 
7:30-8:30 a.m.        Continental Breakfast                                                       
           
8:30-9:00 a.m.        Welcome                                                                             
Dan Fallon, Carnegie Corporation of New York
 
9:00-10:15 a.m.     Concurrent Sessions
  1. Issues and Challenges in Developing a Data Base Linking University, Community College, and School District Data (Aley/Brown/Snyder/Oleksiw) - Powerpoint - Notes
  1. Principles into Practice: Struggling to Do What We Mean to Do             (McDonald/Tobias/Turk/Floden/Watkins/Crowe)
  1. UTEP-TNE’s Contribution to an Integrated Approach to Strengthening Student Writing (K-18) (Bogart)
  1. Institutionalizing Support for New Teachers (Locasale/McCullen) - Notes
  1. Collaborative Efforts to Redesign Content Courses for Elementary Teacher Candidates(Evans/Kessler/Pankratz) - Powerpoint
  1. Race Literacy, a Tripartite Approach to Cultural Competence Professional Development (Gray/Warren) - Notes

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007 (Continued)                                                                                             

10:45 a.m.-Noon   Concurrent Sessions
 
  1. Radical Change in Teacher Induction: An Institutional Challenge                   (Adams/Rusche/Watkins/Bogart)
  1. Seeking Curriculum Coherence in a Research University (Shanahan/McQuillan/Tobias/Charner)
  1. A Formula for Success: Mathematics Department + Teacher Preparation Academy = B.S. with a Double Major(Graef/McAllister/Warren-Kring) - Notes
  1. Setting Teacher Education Policy: A Collaborative Endeavor (Lucas/Robinson/Wilson) - Notes
  1. Systematic Assessment and Use of Data within Teacher Education (Igel) - Notes
  1. For Learning Network Institutions only – Framework for Measuring and Reporting Progress(Oleksiw)
12:00 p.m.            Lunch                                                                                                      
 
12:45-1:30 p.m.     Keynote Address                                                                
Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Executive Vice President and Provost, ArizonaStateUniversity
Introduction: Dan Fallon, Carnegie Corporation of New York
 
1:30-2:15 p.m.       Provost Panel on Leadership for Institutional Change
Elizabeth D. Capaldi, ArizonaStateUniversity                                                
Rita Cheng, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Harry Hellenbrand, CaliforniaStateUniversity, Northridge
Moderator: Ed Crowe, Senior TNE Consultant
 
2:30-3:45 p.m.       Concurrent Sessions
 
  1. Building an Induction Partnership (Czarnik/Diez/Jelen) - Powerpoint - Notes                             
  1. Focus on Coherence:  Engaging Cooperating Teachers as Partners (Compton/Epanchin/Mueller/Blanchett/Johnson-Lewis) - Notes
  1. Getting the Pieces in Place: From Pupil Learning to More Pupil Learning (D’Souza/McQuillan) - Powerpoint
     D.     The Challenge of Systemic Collaboration between Teacher Education and the
             College of Arts and Sciences (Pair/Kinnucan-Welsch) - Notes
  1. Three Successful Strategies for Preparing Teachers for Urban Schools:  What Works? (Beason/Carter/Kelly) - Notes
      F.      For Learning Network Institutions only – Framework for Measuring and Reporting Progress
               (Oleksiw)                                                       
 
4:00-5:00 p.m.        Social Hour                                                                        

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007                                                                                                              

7:30-8:30 a.m.       Continental Breakfast                                                         
 
8:30-9:45 a.m.       Concurrent Sessions
 
  1. Enhancing UTEP’s Field-Based Clinical Practice Program for Preservice Teachers (Hampton/Robinson/Bales/Keller) - Notes
  1. Establishing Value-Added Measures of Teacher Preparation: Challenges in California (Nelson/Diez/Crowe)          
  1. Pre-service Teachers Field-Based Work with ELLs: Project Structure and Initial Research Findings (Mitchell)
  1. Teacher Education is Campus-Wide (Cobitz)
  1. Structures that Foster Critical School-University Collaboration (Blanchett/Gutierrez) - Powerpoint - Notes
  1. Writing Expectations across the Divide: Implications for Change (Adams) - Powerpoint
 
10:00-11:15 a.m.    Concurrent Sessions
 
  1. Bridging the Disciplinary Divide: Collaboration between Education and Arts   and Sciences in Secondary Licensure (Baker/Epanchin/Kinnucan-Welsch/Theodoulou/White) - Notes
  1. Continuing the Conversation: The Observation Protocol (Carter/Williamson/ Shanahan/Mitchell-McKnight)
  1. Principled Reasoning as a Theme for Restructuring Content and Pedagogy in Undergraduate Science Courses (Parker/Sibley) - Powerpoint
  1. For Learning Network Institutions only – A Framework for Measuring and Reporting Progress II (Oleksiw)
  1. Pedagogical Discussion Labs and Education-Intended Students’ Understandings about Teaching and Learning (Bales/Mueller) - Powerpoint - Notes
  1. Math Matters: Results that Add Up for Teachers and Students(Warren-Kring/McAllister/Graef) - Powerpoint 1, Powerpoint 2
 
11:30-12:00 noon         Closing Thoughts                                                          
Stephen Aley, University of Texas at El Paso
Mary Diez, AlvernoCollege
Thomas Lasley, University of Dayton
 
12:00-1:00 p.m.           Lunch                                                                           


For more information, contact: Laura Brooks, (703) 533-5599 or Lbrooks@aed.org

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