SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Presentation to Alumni Advisory
Board
6/10/2014
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Where We Are
Challenges
What’s New?
Ongoing Projects
On the Horizon
What’s Next?
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Programs
◦ BSED Elementary Education
(With SPED and ECED Variants)
◦ BSED Childhood Studies**
◦ BSED Physical Education
◦ BSED Sport Studies
◦ MSED Adolescence Education
◦ MSED/MS Counselor
Education Community Mental
Health
◦ MSED Counselor Education
School
◦ MSED Rehabilitation
Counseling
◦ MSED Educational Leadership
School District Leader
◦ MSED Educational Leadership
School Building Leader
◦ MSED Differentiated
Instruction
◦ MSED Differentiated
Instruction with Students with
Disabilities Cert.
◦ MSED Adolescent Literacy
◦ MSED Childhood Literacy
◦ Minor in Secondary Education*
*new
**significant revision
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Enrollments
Student pass rates on exams
Employment
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Enrollment (down in both undergraduate and
graduate) Approximately ½ of enrollments in
2008.
Resources/New Hires
Engaging Alumni
Competition
Increasing Diverse Experiences for Students
Accountability
Maximizing use of faculty resources
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Minor in Secondary Education
New Faculty Members, Ann Hayslip, in
Elementary Education, and Autumn Dodge, in
Literacy
New Graduate Assistants
New exams started this past year (ALST, EAS,
edTPA)
DASA Workshops Starting this fall
Health and Human Performance Laboratory
Alumni Advisory Committee
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Ed. D. in Leadership and Administration
Wrote the self study
Advisory Committee had 2 meetings
Had visiting team
Charter Change and Master Plan Amendment
approved by Board
◦ Submitted full proposal with the self-study, the
visiting team’s report, responses to it and a variety
of other data.
◦ Next there may be a full team visit and the State
canvass about the program before full approval.
◦ Currently stalled in NYSED.
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NCATE 2015
◦ SPA Update
◦ Moving to CAEP
◦ Self-Study Preparation
Middle States 2014
◦ Self-Study Year
◦ Committees Formed
◦ Self-Study will be drafted Spring 2014
◦ Team visit Fall 2014
Revising Faculty Evaluation Rubrics
School of Education “magazine”
St. Michael’s Indian School Diverse
Placements (2 students took jobs there for
this coming year)
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Online Task Force
P-16 Task Force
Enrollment Events
cIcu Partnership
Maintaining PDS and other partnerships
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Increased Accountability
◦ Diversity
◦ Employability
◦ Student Learning
◦ Institutional Assessment
New Testing Requirements
◦ Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)
◦ ALST
◦ EAS
◦ CSTs
We expect job prospects to pick up some this
year
Continued Enrollment Challenges, especially grad
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New projects that we need to explore or are
exploring:
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Middle level education
Creating professional development courses
Moving toward online portions to all programs
Online master’s degree in advanced teaching (?)
Revising literacy program with B-12 option
Condensing curriculum to produce efficiencies
More diverse experiences for our students