Five Year Objective: All ten Renaissance institutions will fully implement an accountability system that regularly collects and reports data on the impact of their graduates on student learning.

Year 2 Objective: All ten Renaissance institutions will pilot their accountability system developed in Year 1 and collect baseline data as a benchmark for improvement in Years 3, 4 and 5.

Activity

Benchmarks

Time Line

Responsible Party

Resources Needed

· Share Institution Accountability Plan/System with faculty and constituent groups

· Collect first year data on system, including work sample data

· Conduct follow-up survey of first year graduates and employers regarding teacher’s impact on student learning

· All teacher education faculty, participating A&S faculty and partner school leaders will participate in an orientation session on the structure expectations and benefits of the institution accountability system

· Data System becomes operational

· Initial set of data on admissions, third year students and student learning entered

· Summary report developed

· Instrument developed and approved

· Data collected on first year teacher graduates

· Summary report distributed

·December 2000

·November 2000

·May 2001

·July 2001

·November 2000

·May 2001

·July 2001

· Assessment Coordinator and Institutional Coordinator

· Assessment Coordinator

· Assessment Coordinator

· Development time for an Assessment Coordinator

· Travel for Assessment Coordinators to two meetings in St. Louis

· Materials, postage, phone costs for follow-up survey of first year graduate

Five Year Objective: All ten Renaissance institutions will develop and implement the use of Teacher Work Samples in their teacher education programs as a means of improving teaching skills and increasing the teacher’s impact on student learning.

Year 2 Objective: All ten Renaissance institutions will pilot the Teacher Work Sample with student teachers in partner schools.

Activity

Benchmarks

Time Line

Responsible Party

Resources Needed

· Develop Model Work Samples using school practitioner’s class

· Pilot Renaissance Teacher Work Sample model with five or more student teachers

· Prepare third year teachers for RTWS

· Provide ongoing training and technical assistance for RTWS pilot group

· Develop scoring rubrics and score RTWS

· Five model work samples are developed and shared

· Pilot student teachers (STs) recruited

· STs are oriented and trained to complete work sample

· At least five STs teach four week unit and complete work sample

· Work samples are scored

· Training program designed

· Faculty oriented to training program

· Third year teachers complete work sample training

· Training and technical assistance (TA) providers are trained

· TA providers assigned to STs

· At least five STs complete four week work sample training

· Complete January scoring

· Back home scorers are trained

· Complete June scoring session

· Analyze and report data on first year Teacher Work Sample

·December 2000

·October 2000

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·July 2001

·October 2000

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·May 2001

·January 2001

·March 2001

·June 2001

·July 2001

· Teacher Work Sample (TWS) Coordinator

· TWS Coordinators and teacher educators, A&S faculty, school practitioners

· TWS Coordinator

· Education faculty trainers

· TWS Coordinator

· Five teams (a school practitioner, A&S faculty and school practitioner)

· TWS Coordinator

· Lead teacher educator, A&S faculty, school practitioner

· Teacher Work Sample Coordinator time

· Ongoing training and technical assistance for faculty in RTWSM

· Stipends for practitioner, teacher educator and arts and science faculty to develop five model work samples (five teams)

· Two 2-day trips to St. Louis for three persons scoring training and standard setting for Teacher Work Sample

Five Year Objective: All ten Renaissance institutions will develop and implement a team mentoring model consisting of school practitioners, arts and science faculty and teacher educators that facilitate the ability of teachers to impact student learning in partner schools.

Year 2 Objective: Pilot the team mentoring model with five teams consisting of a school practitioner, an arts and science faculty and a teacher educator in conjunction with Teacher Work Samples in partner schools at each of the ten project sites.

Activity

Benchmarks

Time Line

Responsible Party

Resources Needed

· Recruit mentoring team members

· Provide ongoing training and technical assistance for mentoring team

· Pilot at least five mentoring teams

· Train new teams of project for Year 3

· Provide advanced training for Mentoring Coordinator

· Conduct three orientation sessions on the mentoring program to prospective teacher educators, A&S faculty and teacher educators

· Year 2 training program is developed

· Fifteen team members complete initial mentoring training

· Technical assistance delivered to five teams

· Mentoring team trained for Year 2

· Teams are matched to STs

· STs receive a minimum of six technical assistance visits over four weeks

· New team members recruited

· At least five new teams trained in RTWS and team mentoring skills

· All ten Mentoring Coordinators participate in St. Louis Advanced Training meeting

·October 2000

·October 2000

·November 2000

·March 2001

·May 2001

· February 2001

· May 2001

·May 2001

· Mentoring Team Coordinator

· Mentoring Team Coordinator

·Mentoring Team Coordinator

· Team Mentoring Coordinator

· A&S Coordinator

· School Coordinator

· Project Director

· Institutional Coordinator

· Mentoring Team Coordinator time

· Support at least five mentoring teams:

- school practitioners

- arts & science faculty

- teacher educators

· Training and support for five additional teams per site readied for Year 3

· Travel for one person to Mentoring Team Coordinator Meeting

Five Year Objective: All ten Renaissance Institutions will develop and implement a system to annually evaluate their teacher preparation program based on the impact of learning data and make improvements.

Year 2 Objective: Review and revise all teacher preparation program courses to address the eight teaching processes in the RTWS at the proficient or above level.

Activity

Benchmarks

Time Line

Responsible Party

Resources Needed

· Organize committees to review teacher preparation programs

· Conduct review sessions

· Develop recommendations for incorporating RTWS and mentoring processes in classes

· Initiate formal university process for program and course revisions

· Program review committees formally identified

· Four review sessions conducted by each program committee

· Draft report submitted

· Final report submitted

· Program/course changes in formal university approval process

·October 2000

·December 2000 and May 2001

·January 2001

·June 2001

·August 2001

· Institutional Coordinator

· TWS Coordinator

· Mentoring Team Coordinator

· A&S Coordinator

· Support for committees, including school practitioners and A&S faculty to review programs and make revisions

Five Year Objective: All ten Renaissance institutions will establish dynamic partnerships with businesses that provide increased learning opportunities for teacher candidates and/or students in partner schools.

Year 2 Objective: All institutions will develop at least one project initiative that increases the learning opportunities for teacher candidates and students in partner schools.

Activity

Benchmarks

Time Line

Responsible Party

Resources Needed

· Reaffirm structure of Teacher Education Business Partnership

· Initiate project to improve teacher preparation and/or student learning

· Evaluate progress and plan for Year 3

· Draft plans from each institution describing their business partnership structure with one or more ideas for a partnership initiative

· Full description of partnership structure project initiative and work plan for Years 2 and 3

· Report on progress in Year 2 and update of plans for Year 3

·October 2000

·January 2001

·August 2001

· Project Director

· Institutional Coordinator

· School Coordinator

· Business Partner Liaison

· Resources external to Title II will be sought for this objective except for Washington travel. See below...

· Travel to Washington, DC, for Business Representative Meeting (1½ day meeting)

Five Year Objective: Establish a dynamic electronic network among all Renaissance institutions and partner schools to share information, material, ideas, and data related to improvement of teacher quality and student learning.

Year 2 Objective: Increase the capacity of web site and use by 100% compared to Year 1.

Activity

Benchmarks

Time Line

Responsible Party

Resources Needed

· Add materials and features to web site

· Promote use of web site at each institution and partner school

· Report data on use of web site by user group

· Add descriptions and examples of accountability system plans and instruments

· Add "chat rooms" for all constituent groups to web site, i.e. coordinator groups, teacher educators, A&S faculty, school practitioners

· Add Teacher Work Sample Model materials and resources, including model practitioner work samples

· Add team mentoring model materials and resources

· Promotion plan developed and implemented

· Publish quarterly reports on hits by user groups

·February 2001

·November 2000

·December 2000

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·December 2000

·December 2000

·March 2001

·June 2001

·September 2001

· UNI webmaster

· Project Director

· Institutional Coordinators

· TWS Coordinators

· Mentoring Coordinator

· Project Director

· Web site Master

· Web site Master

· Website and webmaster support and Northern Iowa

· Partnership Internet access and support

· Time and expertise to prepare materials for web site

Five Year Objective: Develop and operate an ongoing research program among all ten Renaissance institutions and their partner schools that links teacher performance to student learning.

Year 2 Objective: Conduct studies in five areas where information is needed to develop and improve the Teacher Work Sample Model and the Team Mentoring Model.

Activity

Benchmarks

Time Line

Responsible Party

Resources Needed

· Share research design for each of five areas with ten project sites and establish data collection process

- change in teacher candidate’s performance

- change in faculty and practitioners

- change in preparation programs

- variations of team mentoring

- evidence of student learning/validity of assessment

· Collect data per schedule

· Analyze data and report findings, recommendations, and implications

· Research design placed on web site

· Data sent to researchers in each project area

· Published report with recommendations on project web site

·November 2000

·May 2001

·August 2001

· Project Director

· Assessment Coordinators

- Nancy Keese

- Ed Smith

- Joanne Rainey

- Rob Boody

- Jim Craig

- Georgea Langer

- Pat Pokay

· Assessment Coordinators

· Lead Assessment Coordinators for each study area

· Assessment Coordinator time for data collection and any supplies and communi-
cation resources