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Quality Assurance Symposium

Quality in Context: Tackling the Tough Questions

Association for AdvancingQuality in Educator Preparation

Welcome! We are thrilled to have you with us for the second annual AAQEP Quality Assurance Symposium.

Today’s program offers important opportunities for us to learn together and to share strategies for addressing common challenges.

Our symposium theme, “Quality in Context: Tackling the Tough Questions,” acknowledges a core expectation of AAQEP’s quality assurance system. One strand of concurrent sessions will engage us with some of these questions and probe effective strategies to meet our challenges.

For those looking to learn about the AAQEP accreditation model, staff will also offer a strand of concurrent sessions mirroring our Level I workshop. Feel free to mix and match sessions to suit your needs and interests!

As we celebrate the growth and milestones achieved in the past year, we are grateful to all who have enabled our success—our devoted volunteers, sponsors, partners, and members around the country.

Thank you for joining us today!

The 2019 AAQEP Quality Assurance Symposium is made possible with the generous support of these sponsors:

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February 21, 2019 • Louisville, Kentucky

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

8:00 – 9:00 Registration/Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 Opening Plenary

10:10 – 11:00 Block 1 – Concurrent Sessions


12:00 – 1:30 Lunch and Meet-Ups


2:40 – 3:00 Coffee Break



5:00 – 6:00 Closing/Reception

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WHERE ARE WE?

The AAQEP Quality Assurance Symposium is located exclusively in the Seelbach Hilton. Registration is on the first floor, in the Medallion Foyer, and most sessions are in the Medallion Ballroom; see the following pages for exact room assignments. Only the Innovation Lab, an optional meeting area for AAQEP cohorts, is one level up—in Mezzanine A/B. We are also using the beautiful Rathskeller (lower level) for the closing/reception.

Wi-Fi Password:

AAQEP

AAQEP sessions

Breakout sessions

Registration

Innovation Lab

Reception

AAQEP STAFFMark LaCelle-Peterson, President and CEO

Linda McKee, Chief Operations Officer (Twitter: @mckeelindasusan)

Sungti Hsu, Chief Relationship Officer

Jerry Wirth, Chief Financial Officer

Christine DeGregory, Director of Professional Learning (Twitter: @cdegreg)

Kristin McCabe, Director of Communications and Marketing

Sara Hiller, Accreditation Coordinator (Twitter: @sarajhiller)

Jennifer Hsu, Event Planner

AAQEP BOARD OF DIRECTORSChair: Sandra J. Doran, President, Salem College

Vice Chair: Lynn Hammonds, Executive Director, Hawaii

Teacher Standards Board

Secretary: Tom Bordenkircher, Vice President, Higher

Learning Commission

Treasurer: Virginia Goatley, Dept. Chair, University at Albany

Doretha J. Allen, Instructional Coach, Dallas Independent

School District

Fritz Erickson, President, Northern Michigan University

Jay Fiene, Principal Investigator, Reentry Initiative, California

State University, San Bernardino

Chris Kalmus, Cofounder, LiveText

Rebecca Pelton, President, Montessori Accreditation

Council for Teacher Education

Anthony Rivera, Director, Inter American Univ. of Puerto Rico

Phillip S. Rogers, Executive Director, NASDTEC

John Watzke, Dean, University of Portland

Ex Officio: Mark LaCelle-Peterson, President/CEO, AAQEP


8:00 – 9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST

Be sure to visit our sponsors’ tables in the foyer!

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. OPENING PLENARY

Welcome / State of the Association

Presenters: Linda McKee & Mark LaCelle-Peterson, AAQEP

ROOM: MEDALLION C/D

10:10 – 11:00 a.m. BLOCK 1

Principles and Priorities: The AAQEP Expectations Framework

Presenter: Sungti Hsu, AAQEP

ROOM: MEDALLION C/D

AAQEP is dedicated to strengthening P-20 education through excellent educator preparation. In partnership with its members and state education authorities, AAQEP supports excellent, inno-vative programs that prepare effective educators and strengthen the education profession’s ability to serve all students, schools, and communities equitably. Participants will learn about the his-tory, design principles, and priorities of AAQEP’s Expectations Framework.

Open-Source Impact Data: A Problems of Practice PDS Model

Presenter: Mary E. Earick, Plymouth State University

ROOM: MEDALLION A

How do institutions measure preservice teacher impact?

The Plymouth State University Holmes Center is redefining teacher preparation through a Problem of Practice Professional Development Schools (PPPDS) partnership model. This session will explore use of aggregated federally required accountabil-ity data to track impact of preservice teachers on schools and school districts over 3 years in the PPPDS model.

Applying an inbound strategy, the Holmes Center initiated a re-quest for engagement with local school districts in fall 2017. Districts applied to host preservice teaching interns in return for professional learning and mentorship in teaching foundations, equity, problem-based learning, coteaching, and evaluation. Districts also agreed to share aggregated open-source data coded by intern placements over 3 years, participate annually in targeted surveys and coteaching match nights, and identify one administrator to serve on a PPPDS advisory board. Baseline data, tools, strategies, and considerations for replication of this

model will be made available to session par-ticipants.

The Design, Evolution, and Impact of the Praxis Performance Assessment for Teachers (PPAT)

Presenter: Cathy Owens-Oliver, Educational Testing Service

ROOM: MEDALLION B

Get a firsthand update on the implementation and evolution of the PPAT. Learn how state agencies and institutions are using PPAT for program growth and coursework alignment and how elementary and secondary departments are “reaching across the aisle.” Also learn how candidates are responding to the ben-efits of PPAT, how the PPAT aligns with AAQEP standards, and the distinct differences between the PPAT and edTPA. The ses-sion will also include qualitative and quantitative results from recent pilot studies. (This session will be repeated in Block 2.)

11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. BLOCK 2

Performance as Professional Educators: AAQEP Standards 1 & 2

Presenters: Christine DeGregory & Sungti Hsu, AAQEP

ROOM: MEDALLION C/D

AAQEP’s Standards 1 and 2 require evidence that candidates, upon completion, are ready to take on the responsibilities for which they were prepared and to continue growing as profes-sionals throughout their careers. This session addresses the standards and aspects regarding candidate/completer perfor-mance as well as the key questions: At the end of the program, are completers ready to fill their target professional roles ef-fectively? And are completers prepared to work in diverse con-texts, have they done so successfully, and are they growing as professionals?

Clinical Practice and Accreditation: Our Profession and Our Practice

Presenters: Rodrick S. Lucero & Amanda J. Lester, Center for Clinical Practice in Educator Preparation

ROOM: MEDALLION A

This session will address AAQEP Standard 3 with a focus on how programs can build capacity through mutually beneficial partnerships, undergirded by strong infrastructure and guided by coherent curricula, in the development of teacher candi-dates who are prepared to support the success of all learners.

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Drawing from foundational, emergent, and innovative research, this dynamic presentation will offer new ideas for the interface between accreditation processes that support and guide edu-cator preparation programs. Explore a proposed addition to the accreditation process that could result in the designation of a program as a clinical practice site. Provide input and guide the next steps for partnership between professional accreditors and clinical practice.

The Design, Evolution, and Impact of the Praxis Performance Assessment for Teachers (PPAT)

Presenter: Cathy Owens-Oliver, Educational Testing Service

ROOM: MEDALLION B

Get a firsthand update on the implementation and evolution of the PPAT. Learn how state agencies and institutions are using PPAT for program growth and coursework alignment and how elementary and secondary departments are “reaching across the aisle.” Also learn how candidates are responding to the ben-efits of PPAT, how the PPAT aligns with AAQEP standards, and the distinct differences between the PPAT and edTPA. The ses-sion will also include qualitative and quantitative results from recent pilot studies. (This session is repeated from Block 1.)

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. LUNCH AND MEET-UPS

Presenter: Phil Rogers, NASDTEC

ROOM: MEDALLION C/D

NASDTEC Executive Director (and AAQEP Board member) Phil Rogers will open the luncheon with brief remarks, sharing highlights from a forthcoming jurisdiction report on recent state policy changes related to educator preparation.

Following the meal, attendees will have options to meet with their cohort peers, AAQEP staff and reviewers, or symposium sponsors.

1:45 – 2:35 p.m. BLOCK 3

Confidence in the Capacity for Quality: Standards 3 & 4 on Program Practices

Presenters: Christine DeGregory & Sungti Hsu, AAQEP

ROOM: MEDALLION C/D

AAQEP’s Standards 3 and 4 address quality program practices. Every accreditation decision includes two components: a judg-ment of quality and a judgment regarding confidence that the

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level of quality will be maintained. The evidence presented for Standards 3 and 4 informs the latter judgment. This session fo-cuses on two key questions that address these standards: Does the program have the capacity (internally and with partners) to ensure that completers are prepared and succeed profession-ally? And is the program engaged in strengthening the educa-tion system in conjunction with its stakeholders and in keeping with its institutional mission?

Transforming Messy Data: Tough Decisions and Effective Processes

Presenters: Ray Francis & Mark Deschaine, Central Michigan University

ROOM: MEDALLION A

Institutions collect data on students through a variety of strate-gies, for a variety of needs. Often, we overcollect data, seldom taking the time to consider programmatic implications. Edu-cators need supports to assist them in revisiting the purpose of assessment and evaluation through quality assurance pro-cesses. There are many messy questions and tough decisions to be made. The answers to these require a cohesive and col-laborative approach to create actionable information related to accreditation and quality assurance. This session explores tools and strategies to clean up messy data and transform processes

to guide organizations as they create and implement effective structures.

Quality in Context: Tackling the Tough Questions

Presenters: Tim Wall, Northwest Missouri State University, and Joe Lubig, Northern Michigan University

ROOM: MEDALLION B

Tackling the tough questions within the context of clinical part-nerships requires that we move beyond binary choices and open ourselves up to processes and systems that leverage quality teaching and those that have the potential to make us vulner-able. Participants will leave this workshop with strategies and processes that leverage collaboration and support innovation.

2:40 – 3:00 p.m. COFFEE BREAK

Stretch your legs and grab a coffee in the foyer. While you’re there, be sure to check out the resources offered by our sponsors!


3:00 – 3:50 p.m. BLOCK 4

The AAQEP Process: From Proposal to Decision

Presenters: Mark LaCelle-Peterson & Christine DeGregory, AAQEP

ROOM: MEDALLION C/D

AAQEP has designed a number of innovations that are woven throughout the quality assurance process. This session will pro-vide an overview of how AAQEP assists providers in preparation for their review through supportive and collaborative experi-ences that include cohort and learning community placement, liaison assignment, and the optional proposal process.

edTPA and Equitable Instructional Practices

Presenter: Andrea Whittaker, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Equity

ROOM: MEDALLION A

Get an overview of edTPA design and rubrics and examine how edTPA constructs provide evidence of candidates’ equitable in-structional practices (leveraging assets, differentiation, deeper content learning). Participants also are encouraged to extend this orientation in Block 5 as they examine these practices in reference to their own mission and values.

Using Data to Intervene: Tiered Intervention for Teacher Candidates

Presenter: Jill J. Baker, Northwest Missouri State University

ROOM: MEDALLION B

Each teacher candidate comes to us with a unique set of “can-didate DNA”—the data unique to him or her that can predict success or struggle in a teacher education program. At North-west Missouri State University, teacher candidates have the opportunity for targeted, specific supports on their journey to teacher candidacy. Using ACT/SAT scores, high school GPA, and qualitative data, advisers can place students into tiers for in-tervention before they even set foot on campus. This targeted, intrusive advisement allows teacher candidates to have both support for success and honest career discernment conversa-tions leading, ultimately, to successful graduates.

4:00 – 4:50 p.m. BLOCK 5

Writing the Quality Assurance Report & Hosting a Site Visit

Presenters: Christine DeGregory & Sara Hiller, AAQEP

ROOM: MEDALLION C/D

Thank You!AAQEP is grateful to the Evaluation Systems group of Pearson

for its generous Gold-level sponsorship of this symposium.


A core document of the accreditation process is the provider’s Quality Assurance Report (QAR). Learn more about how to pres-ent this evidence-based argument, how to write your report to help reviewers navigate your QAR, and how providers can inte-grate data and supporting documents within the QAR narrative. The session will also present an overview of the processes and logistics involved with the event that serves to affirm the QAR: the site visit.

Program Mission and Values: What Counts as Evidence?

Presenter: Andrea Whittaker, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Equity

ROOM: MEDALLION A

Examine your own program mission, values, and concep-tual frameworks and identify equitable instructional practices aligned with performance-based assessments of teaching. The process will be modeled using edTPA constructs that provide evidence for how candidates leverage their students’ personal, cultural, and community assets to inform differentiation and support deeper content learning in diverse contexts.

The Effective Learning Environment Observation Tool (eleot) in Higher Education

Presenter: Lisa Stone, Vice President, Improvement Services, AdvancED/Measured Progress

ROOM: MEDALLION B

Learn why institutions of higher education are adopting eleot as a formative tool to inform continuous improvement in their undergraduate and graduate programs. At the undergraduate level, field experience students are being observed to measure student engagement within lessons. At the graduate level, in-stitutions are using eleot to prepare aspiring administrators for classroom observations. SUNY Albany, an AAQEP accreditation candidate, is using eleot as part of their accreditation self-study for observing program completers/alumni. Data from all insti-tutions are similarly being used to analyze the quality of the programs’ preparation of educators.

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. CLOSING / RECEPTION

Closing and Fireside Chat

Presenters: AAQEP Staff

ROOM: RATHSKELLER (LOWER LEVEL)

Wrap up the day with an informal conversation and an oppor-tunity to share your experiences and insights about the AAQEP process with your colleagues. AAQEP staff will be available to answer questions, share suggestions, and capture your ideas as you enjoy hors d’oeuvres and drinks in the historic Rathskeller.

PRESENTER INDEX

Jill J. Baker, Instructor and First Year Adviser, School of Education, Northwest Missouri State Uni-versity – Baker is in her 7th year as an instructor in the School of Education at Northwest Missouri State University. She has extensive experience in

advising teacher candidates and specializes in advising the most at-risk candidates. Baker has served as a teacher at the college, middle school, and elementary levels. She has been a staff devel-oper and trainer in all levels, PK-12, and served as an elementary school principal. When she’s not teaching and advising, Baker is a wife, mom, avid runner, foodie, and bibliophile who enjoys nothing more than a great run and a good laugh. Twitter: @jilljbaker

Mark Deschaine, Associate Professor, Depart-ment of Educational Leadership, Central Michigan University – Deschaine has extensive experience in the training and development of P-20 educators. He received his Ph.D. in educational leadership

from Western Michigan University. He holds Michigan teaching and administrative certification and endorsements in both general and special education. Deschaine is a member of the graduate faculty and teaches students at the master, specialist, and doctoral levels. His research agenda focuses on the ways that theory, policy, and processes support and impact effective differentiated instruction. Twitter: @MarkEDeschaine

Mary E. Earick, Associate Research Professor, Holmes Center Director, Plymouth State University (NH) – Earick’s research and scholarship focus on critical whiteness studies, activist pedagogies, personalized inclusive educational pathways, and

problems of practice as a tool for educational transformation. She is the author of Racially Equitable Teaching. Earick’s teaching is featured in Teaching Tolerance in the Early Years, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Her current projects include evaluat-ing underrepresented student retention in the geosciences through NSF and developing community participatory tools to identify root causes of educational inequities through the Nellie Mae founda-tion. Twitter: @maryearick

Ray Francis, Central Michigan University – Fran-cis is a tenured professor and member of the graduate faculty in the Department of Teacher Ed-ucation and Professional Development at Central Michigan University. He currently teaches courses

in evaluation and measurement, research methods, and research capstone seminars at the MA level. In addition, Francis teaches doctoral level courses in the Doctor of Educational Technology pro-gram. His current research interests include aspects of student motivation in blended and online learning, concept mapping, prior learning assessment, authentic assessment, and global experi-ences to build the professional knowledge base of undergraduate and graduate students. Twitter: @RW_Francis


Amanda J. Lester, Consultant, Education Policy & Programs – Lester has worked in education for over 25 years, from teaching to education policy and program roles for the New York State Assem-bly, SUNY System Administration, and the Ameri-

can Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Most recently, she was program director for the AACTE Clinical Practice Commission and co-led the development of its report released in 2018. She holds master’s degrees in music education, elementary education, and public affairs & policy and is completing doctoral studies in education policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. Twit-ter: @AmandaJLester

Joe Lubig, Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Education, Leadership, & Public Service, Northern Michigan University – Lu-big is a leader in national accreditation and advo-cacy having served with AAQEP, the Teacher Edu-

cation Accreditation Council, the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, and AACTE. Twitter: @NMUSchoolofEd

Rodrick S. Lucero, Consultant, Clinical Educator Preparation – Lucero earned a Ph.D. in education and human resources from Colorado State Univer-sity. He has been a teacher, high school admin-istrator, associate professor, and associate direc-

tor for the School of Teacher Education and Principal Preparation at Colorado State University. He also served as vice president at AACTE, where he founded the Clinical Practice Commission and co-led the development of its report released in 2018. Lucero is a frequent speaker on topics such as clinical educator preparation and pedagogy in teacher preparation and has served on boards for national organizations and the Colorado Outdoor Education Center. Twitter: @DrRLucero

Cathy Owens-Oliver, PPAT Senior Client Rela-tions Director, Educational Testing Service – Ow-ens-Oliver earned her doctorate in education, leadership, management, and policy at Seton Hall University. She is a National Board Certified

Teacher who has held senior roles at ETS, NBPTS, Learning For-ward, and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. She has served as adjunct faculty for several institutions, presented at numerous conferences, and written for publications including Ac-complished Teacher Magazine, the Journal of Staff Development, and the Hope Foundation’s What Works in Schools newsletter. Her work also appears in the college textbook Black Star: An Introduc-tion to African-American Studies. Twitter: @Drcathyo

Lisa Stone, Vice President, Improvement Ser-vices, AdvancED/Measured Progress – Stone has served as a teacher, elementary principal, director of student achievement and elementary school director for Fayette County Public Schools, edu-

cation leader for the Kentucky Association of School Councils, and director of school improvement for Montgomery County Schools,

all in Kentucky. Stone received a doctorate in educational leader-ship from the University of the Cumberlands. The focus of her work in education has been to develop highly effective administrative and teacher leaders. Her passion is concentrated on continuous improvement efforts to ensure a quality education for all students.

Tim Wall, Dean, School of Education, Northwest Missouri State University – Wall’s scholarship focuses on accountability, using data to improve program effectiveness, developing high-quality educator preparation assessment systems, and

preparing for robust accreditation visits. He is a founding member of AAQEP. His mission is to prepare caring teachers who possess the highest level of professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn in a diverse and ever-changing world.

Andrea Whittaker, edTPA National Director, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Eq-uity – Twitter: @AndreaWhittake5

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