CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
THE CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
ADVISORY COUNCIL
MINUTES
January 09, 2013
Black Hall 228-19
ATTENDING: Gary Ballou, Bobby Cummings, Barry Donahue, Ginni Erion, Connie Lambert, Kirk Mathias, Mark
Oursland, Bruce Palmquist, Shari Stoddard, and Crystal Weddington
UNABLE TO ATTEND: Jim DePaepe, Kendall Martin, Ian Quitadamo, and Beau Snow
GUESTS ATTENDING: Janet Finke
MEETING CONVENED: The meeting was called to order at 3:18 P.M.
CHANGES TO AGENDA: A motion was made, seconded, and approved to accept the agenda as presented.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: A motion was made seconded and approved to accept the December 5, 2012 minutes as
is.
NEW BUSINESS:
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Teacher Preparation PEAB Recommendations were shared with the Advisory Council
1. Recommend students go to the Writing Center to get help with their student teaching reflections.
2. Develop a matrix across all programs to show where the 15 elements of the TPA test are
addressed in the coursework.
3. Make effort to better include mentor teachers in the reflective process.
4. Ensure better video training in courses.
5. Track where reflective writing is embedded in the coursework.
6. Investigate the possibility to extend the teaching experience from 10 weeks to 20 weeks.
Motion was made and seconded to approve the curricula identified below per the recommendation of
the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
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Mathematics Curriculum
o MATH 251 – New Course
Motion was made and seconded to approve the curricula identified below per the recommendation of
the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
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TEACH Curriculum
o Elementary Ed Major – Narrative Change
o EDEL 320 – Course change_New description/prerequisite
o EDEL 323 – Course change_Prerequisite
o EDEL 420 – Course change_Prerequisite
o EDEL 423 – Course change_Description/Prerequisite
o EDEL 468 – Course change_Prerequisite
o EDEL 477 – Course change_Prerequisite
o EDEL 478 – Course change_Prerequisite
o EDEL 492 – Course change_Number, description, prerequisite
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Motion was made and seconded to approve the curricula identified below per the recommendation of
the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
 English Curriculum
o ENG 429-New Course
o ENG 492 – Course change_ New description/prerequisite
Motion was made and seconded to approve the curricula identified below per the recommendation of
the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

EF&C Curriculum
o EFC 330 – Course Change_Addition to prerequisite list

PESB Data Governance Contact information
o The PESB would like to see the Data Governance contact information reviewed, updated, and it
is recommended that it be added to the CTL web page. The Advisory Council will come back at
the next meeting with a recommendation as to where, in the CTL manual, the Data Governance
contact information should be noted.
OLD BUSINESS:
CAPS Report

The CAPS report has a Professional Education Sequence and Professional Education Program, and this
could be potentially confusing for faculty, staff, and students. The recommendation from the Advisory
Council is to delete the Professional Education Sequence from the CAPS Report.
A motion was made, seconded, and approved to delete the Professional Ed Sequence from the CAPS
report.
Update - CDMS (Comprehensive Data Management System)

Program Coordinator meetings will take place starting tomorrow, January 10th.
ADVISORY COUNCIL REPORTS:
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: (Co-chair, Mark Oursland)

NO REPORT
Graduate Programs Committee: (Chair, Kirk Mathias)

NO REPORT
Candidate Admissions, Recruitment, and Retention Committee: (Chair Designee, Crystal Weddington)

Current report shows 142 students with GPA’s falling below 3.0, and needing to be reviewed.

There are quite a few students who are making it pretty close to graduation, without declaring a Major.
75% of our Education students are transfers. They miss the blocks that we have on campus, in their
freshman and sophomore year, in order for them to have to declare. The Program Coordinators will be
asked to develop recommendations on how to ensure that students who are going through programs
have actually declared the program, as a Major. Until they do that, there is data out in SAFARI that we
don’t pull on these students, because they are not identified as Education, due to not having declared an
Education Major.
Diversity and Equity Committee: (Co-chair, Bobby Cummings)

January 25th is the next committee meeting.

Tribal Sovereignty training will take place on January 11th, room 114 beginning at 10AM
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Field Experience Office: (Director, Gary Ballou)

Gary is looking at aligning the TPEP with his evaluation tools, for consistency.

Thorp is interested in taking more student teachers

Beginning this quarter the Field Experience office will be having convocations, once a quarter, so that
those who are planning to do any student teaching next year, at any point, any quarter, will be fully
aware of the expectations.
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Created a quarter calendar for all Field Supervisors
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Working with LiveText help desk to provide a required LiveText seminar at the Centers.
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Center Site Directors are now included in emails sent to Field Supervisors
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Field Supervisors are now required to cross-check their rosters between STAD, LiveText, and SAFARI
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Mid-term evaluation data points will now be entered in LiveText beginning this quarter

Gary is reviewing with the Field Supervisors the University’s mission statement and the College of
Education and Professional Studies mission statement.
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Field Supervisor meetings are now held twice a month, on a regular basis.

Working with Dan Matthews and the CDMS, with great success.

Working with Judi Robinette, from the Fingerprinting office, to create an email that goes out from the
Field Experience office, when a student is a “no show” for a scheduled fingerprinting appointment.

Gary created a flier for the Field Supervisors to give to their teachers, that discusses, outlines, and
details, all the on-line courses that our certificated teachers out in the field can take, that we offer at
CWU. This is a way to offer them either credits or clock hours, and a way to connect with CWU.

Washington State teacher of the Year, Jeff Charbonneau, is looking forward to speaking regularly with
the student teachers

Field Experience office is ordering a set of the Common Core Standards, and it will be available in Gary’s
office
Elementary Education Program: (Chair, Ginni Erion)

NO REPORT
Professional Education Program: (Program Coordinator, Barry Donahue)

NO REPORT
EXECUTIVE BOARD REPORTS:
Professional Education Advisory Boards: (Connie Lambert)

NO REPORT
ADJOURNMENT: Meeting was adjourned at 4:21PM.
NEXT MEETING: January 30, 2013
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