Report: Partnership

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Report Partnership Selection Group

• Working Together to Prepare Illinois School
  Leaders
• August 6, 2008
• Small-group discussion

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Participants

• St. Xavier Sheila Wright Beverly Gulley
• Dominican Jim Harrington
• Benedictine Laine Tadlock
• Western Illinois Bonnie Smith-Scripps
• Eastern Illinois John Dively
• Bradley Jenny Tripses
• IERC Kathleen Brown

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Brainstorming Activity

• Five years out, what would your program look
  like?
• Ideal PDS where everyone focuses on students
• New kinds of collaborations using technology
• P20 Collaborations that effectively manages
  mandates that serve students
• More cohorts
• Program integrity regardless of size.
• Mission-driven

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Positive Changes from Recommendations

• Partnerships with districts for strategic
  recruitment
• We need to communicate standards for admissions.
• Articulate the P20 connections.
• Increased sense of professionalism in our field.
• Outcome of collaboration is to create greater
  clarity and integrity in our roles.

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Challenges Barriers

• Time Resources to promote collaboration
• Institutional and Professional Commitment
• Costs of partnerships for higher education
• Tenure process does not support now.
• The current certification test does not inform
  programs for improvement.

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Partnerships

• Whats out there? What is effective?
• Examples partnering for search committees, joint
  faculty appointments, etc.
• Mentoring relationships
• Co-teaching
• Advisory Boards (basic)
• ROEs have resources they collaborate on
  professional development.

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Candidate Selection Process

• Tensions and ethical issues in either allowing
  districts to select candidates or allowing
  University to select candidates who do not get
  positions.
• Reproduction of the status quo.
• Joint process or agreed-upon criteria
• Best selection motivation on part of student
  (market-based)

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Supports Needed for Success

• Models of successful collaborations
• Time to devote to this work
• Leverage to change university culture
• Leverage to change P12 culture

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Takeaway

• Have we correctly identified and defined the
  problem?
• This will dictate the solutions we develop!
• Baseline data needed
• Methodological limitations of snapshot
  standardized tests as measure of outcomes