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Northern Illinois Regional P-20 Summit

HOW DO WE COLLABORATE ACROSS THE P-20 CONTINUUM TO --

1. More effectively operate as educational partners?

  • Types of partnerships, strategic purposes
  • Needs of partners in relation to deliverables
  • Development of trust and maintenance of communications
  • Resources from public and private sectors
  • Articulation and reporting of progress toward goals
  • Other

2. Develop and implement an Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) degree which will result in a teaching force of high quality and greater diversity?

  • Recruitment in schools for AAT program
  • Alignment of community college and higher education curriculum
  • Articulation of credit, clinical experiences, and placements
  • Other

3. Make certain that educators in initial stages of preparation gain appropriate content and pedagogical knowledge?

  • The relationship between content and pedagogical knowledge
  • Illinois Learning Standards (K-12)
  • Illinois Content Area Standards
  • Illinois Professional Teaching Standards
  • “Highly qualified” teachers
  • Connections across all stakeholders
  • Other

4. Provide professional development to ensure highly qualified educators in the field?

  • Essential elements of mentoring and induction to improve retention and performance
  • Professional development focus areas; e.g. content (math, science), pedagogy, technology, assessment, special needs populations
  • Connection to school improvement plans
  • Delivery; e.g. multi-media, online, cohorts, school-based, easier accessibility; institutional consortia.
  • Other

5. Influence the public agenda on education policies?

  • Collaboration on public information
  • Infrastructure of ongoing support from stakeholders
  • Concerted actions that are timely and strategic
  • Mechanisms for ongoing dialogue
  • Other

6. More effectively address issues of assessment and
accountability of students, educators, and institutions?

  • Mandated testing
  • Accrediting agencies’ standards
  • Assessment models and reporting of progress toward goals
  • Performance indicators/outcome measures
  • Respectful and effective support for Warning and Watch List schools
  • Other