Breakfast (8:30 – 9:00)
MACTE Business Meeting (9:00 – 9:45)
Opening Panel – Maryland Taskforce on Teacher Education (10:00 – 11:15)
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Jack Smith, Chief Academic Officer, Maryland State Department of Education; Maryland Taskforce on Teacher Education Co-chair
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MACTE Members on the Taskforce, Karen Verbeke, Colleen Eisenbeiser
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Moderator, Joshua Smith
Concurrent Session I – Preparing Teachers for High Tech Schools (11:30 – 12:30)
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College Park Lab School – Donna Wiseman, Dean University of Maryland College Park. College
Park College Park Academy (CPA) is a public middle and high school for Prince George’s County students that opened in Fall 2013 with 6th and 7th grades and is adding a grade per year until the school reaches 12th grade and 700 students. Situated on the edge of the University of Maryland campus, it offers its middle and high school students an academically rigorous curriculum, online, blended instruction delivered by face to face and online certified teachers and the opportunity to take college classes early. This session will focus on the role of the partnership between the university, the City of College Park, and Prince George's County and describe how the new school has the potential to change how students learn and teachers teach.
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What Does it Mean To Be a 21st Century Teacher?
– Fran Glick, Supervisor, Department of Digital
Learning, Baltimore County Public Schools. As school systems move toward ‘high-access,’ computing in classrooms teachers must be prepared to work in the modern classroom. Participants in this session will examine the skills, experiences, and understandings teachers must have in order to prepare them for 21st century students and learning environments.

 iPads in Teacher Preparation – If You Give a Student an iPad…..-- Dr. Deanna Stock, Director of
Teacher Education & Dr. Cynthia France, Director of the Faculty Development Center, Chesapeake
College. With funding from the college’s IT division, students in two pilot sections of Foundations of Education (SP11 &FA12) received iPad2’s for the duration of the course. As expected, this
“embedded technology” experiment richly enhanced interaction with course content and other learners, but certain additional results were surprising. This session will outlines some of the problems encountered in this project, and ask participants to weigh in with their own solutions.
Presenters will also share what did and did not work, and show work processes, examples of technology enhanced assignments, student survey results, video of student reactions.
Lunch Session – LEA readiness for the Maryland College and Career Readiness Standards – Phase 1 findings on teachers, principals and LEAs—Ray Lorion, Towson and Gene Shaffer, UMBC; Center for
Application and Innovation in Research in Education (CAIRE). (12:30 - 1:15)
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In fall 2013, CAIRE surveyed 9200 teachers, 600+ principals and 300+ LEA central office staff regarding familiarity with and readiness to teach the MD CCRS. Results of that survey and discussions of its implications for teacher preparation will be presented. Plans for related surveys will also be discussed.
Concurrent Session II – Innovations in Teacher Preparation Programs (1:30 – 2:30)
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Targeting the needs of the pre service teachers in our urban schools : Urban Needs in Teacher
Education (UNITE), Annie Bolan '14, Caitlin McNickle '15, Kelsey Catansaro ' 17, Kaitlyn Hammel
'14, Molly King '14, Loyola University Maryland-- UNITE was started in Chicago and brought to
Loyola University to better prepare, support and educate pre-service teachers in urban schools.
Loyola's UNITE chapter provides professional development, community engagement and conversations to education majors. The presentation will describe the need for UNITE chapter in teacher education programs and how Loyola students successfully started a chapter. The session will discuss the ways in which UNITE students have engaged with the Baltimore city community and the benefits of hearing from parents, teachers, principals, Pastors, and other professionals in urban education.
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UTeach – Kathy Angeletti -- The successful UTeach program was developed at the University of
Texas at Austin in 1997 is now being replicated at more than 30 universities across the United States.
Presenters will describe the development of the program at Towson University in fall 2012 and more recently at University of Maryland College Park.
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New Leaders for New Schools – Dr. Derry Stufft (UMES) and Dr. Doug DeWitt (Salisbury
University). The Lower Eastern Shore School Leadership Institute (LESSLI) is a school leadership model that is being funded by the Maryland State Department of Education through a Maryland Race to the Top Great Principals for Maryland grant. LESSLI combines traditional administrative preparation programs from Salisbury University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore with non-traditional professional development programs through New Leader’s EPIC program and intensive mentoring and school improvement projects. This session will discuss in detail the origins and implementation of LESSLI and encourage a dialogue discussing best practices in school leadership preparation.
End of the Conference Summary and Evaluation (2:30 – 3:00)