June 28, 10:15 – 11:30am, Room: Champaign This collaborative engages teachers in continuing professional development for the purpose of improving teaching and learning in a low-resource region. Based on their organization, processes, and initial results, school personnel were successful in meeting the improvement goals. This session explains the purposes, structure and accomplishments achieved through combining public and private IHE and community perspectives and resources to address regional school improvement. Collaborative models increase capacity to transform education in rural and urban schools and are increasingly important in a stressed U.S. economy. Main Presenter: Dorothy Erb, Marietta College Co-Presenter(s): Phyllis McQueen, University of Rio Grande; Renee Middleton, Ohio University; Rae White, Muskingum University

1. A Public/Private Institutional
Teacher Education Collaborative:
Promoting High Quality Education
for All Children
Ohio Educators
Connect for Success
Conference

3. PRESENTERS
Dottie Erb, Chair – Marietta College
Department of Teacher Education
Phyllis McQueen, Chair – University of Rio Grande
Bunce School of Education
Paul Madden, Chair and Interim Associate Provost
Shawnee State University
Department of Teacher Education

4. SEO-TDC History
and Organization
Dottie Erb, Chair
Marietta College
Department of Education

5. SEO-TDC History and Organization
Established in 2007 with support from a West Wind
Education Policy grant in addition to the support
provided by our team’s first facilitator: Robert Bowers.
West Wind Education Policy Inc. builds the capacity of state
education leaders to imagine and enact an education system
that overcomes historic and persistent inequities and engages
each and every child in learning.
West Wind Education Policy
1700 S First Avenue, Suite 17
Iowa City, IA 52240-6036
www.westwinded.com

6. SEO-TDC History and Organization
• Mr. Rob Radway, Honda of America’s Senior
Consultant for Education Outreach Programs, serves as
the Facilitator (2009 to Present).
• Teams activities are now supported by a grant
from The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation and
SEO-TDC institutional resources
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
The Halle Building
1228 Euclid Ave. Suite 710
Cleveland OH, 44115
www.mhjf.org

7. SEO-TDC History and Organization
• SEOTDC Partners with The Coalition of Rural and
Appalachian Schools (CORAS)
www.coras.org

8. SEO-TDC History and Organization
• CORAS is an organization composed of 136 school districts
in the 35-county region of Ohio designated as Appalachia
by the federal government. CORAS is under the governance
structure of a Regional Council of Governments

9. SEO-TDC History and Organization
• Members of Communications & Connections (Meets Quarterly)
• This group comprises: ODE Representatives,
OBR Representatives, Education Service Centers,
IHE Faculty, SEOTDC
deans, superintendents, OFT, OEA, principals, teachers,
CORAS Leadership,
School Support Teams/Centers of Practice
www.cehs.ohio.edu/cc

10. SEO-TDC History and Organization
Prevailing Question:
How do we create an aligned, agile,
system of education that meets the
unique needs of the learner?

11. Committed Principles Guiding Our Work
What We Will Do:
• We will commit to this team
• We will produce tangible results
• We will recognize the particular contexts
of districts and schools
• We will communicate with superintendents,
principals, teachers, and school counselors
• We will gather systematic regional and national data
• We will involve other persons from our
institutions as needed

12. Committed Principles Guiding Our Work
What We Will NOT Do:
• We will not end the year without achieving
our expected results/deliverables
• We will not compete with each other
• We will not impose ourselves on the public
schools (instead, we will work with them
from where they are)
• We will not allow barriers and challenges
to detour us from our goals/purposes

13. Why a Collaborative?
Benefits:
 United for Education of Appalachian Students/Schools
 Synergistic Relationship
 Build on Strengths of Each IHE Partner
 Pronounced Needs in Appalachian Area
 Reduced Funds Necessitate Fiscal Responsibility
 High Accountability for All Educational Entities

14. Why a Collaborative?
Challenges:
 Time for Meetings and Planning
Monthly schedule F2F or tech connection
 Distances
Alternate meeting locations in SE region
 Coordination
Talented facilitator, neutral and focused on goals
 Competing Interests
Find common goals to focus
 Fiscal
Grants, business partners, conference
registrations, IHE commitment

15. Supporting the Work of the
Region’s P-20 System of Education

16. Phyllis McQueen, Chair
University of Rio Grande
Bunce School of Education

17. SEO-TDC Outcomes 2010-12
Professional development
positioned to address local
and national challenges

18. SEO-TDC Outcomes 2010-12
Online Modules –Teacher Quality Matters
-Building capacity of
Teacher Mentors

19. Module I: Mentoring 101
Definitions
The Importance of Mentoring
Faculty’s Experience with Mentoring

20. Module II: Mentoring
Across The Continuum
Emerging • Developing • Proficient
Accomplished • Distinguished

22. Mentoring Styles Assessment Instrument
Feedback from the two focus groups was used to inform the
development of the mentoring styles assessment
instrument. Key points included:
• Use of language: “student teacher” vs. “professional intern”
• All items should have the same number of responses
• The level of experience of both the cooperating teacher
and the student teacher should be clearly identified
• The instrument was piloted via email beginning
Dec. 7, 2011 and ending Dec. 21, 2011, using
graduate students and teachers as participants

23. Mentoring Styles Assessment Instrument
Three Domains
1. Cognitive Style (Analytic/ Intuitive)
2. Interaction Style (Directive/Collaborative/Non-
Directive)
3. Problem Solving Style (Convergent/Divergent)

24. Mentoring Styles Assessment Instrument
The instrument will be used in Module III of the
Mentor Quality Matters (MQM) professional
development online experience
• Accompanied by peer-reviewed literature and
relevant research as a framework.
• Workshop participants learn which styles of mentoring
are most effective when mentoring pre-service candidates.
• The mentoring styles assessment instrument will be
attached to the online MQM professional development
workshop, in the form of a pre- and post-test.

25. Additional SEO-TDC Outcomes 2010-12
• Assessment instrument to evaluate mentoring styles
and effectiveness of mentoring relationships
• White paper on delivering professional development
in relation to the context of schools and local
communit
•Teacher Performance Assessment Support.
•Development of Clinical Curriculum for Teacher
Education

26. Teacher Performance Assessment
•TPA Coordinators from partner institutions met to
share information, ideas, and strategies
for implementation
• Will identify ways to share resources and contacts
for partnerships and trainings
• Lead integration of assessment concepts into
preparation curriculum
and supervision

27. Clinical Curriculum
Design Framework
Ohio Standards for Teaching
• covers a complete spectrum of teaching skills and
aligns well with the Ohio Continuum of Teacher
Development
Ohio Continuum of Teacher Development
• emerging level provides point of connection between
preservice and inservice

28. Clinical Curriculum
Potential Benefits
• Communication
• Common Conceptual Framework
• Collaboration
• Common language

29. Paul Madden, Chair &
Interim Associate Provost
Shawnee State University
Department of Teacher Education

30. Regional School Support
Dual credit teacher credentialing
program development
• SEO-TDC continues to support the efforts of Dual
Enrollment. A Dual Enrollment Summit, held Nov 21st
at Shawnee State, garnered nearly 30 attendees from
throughout the region.
• Ohio Board of Regents (Dr. Tom Bordenkircher)
attended and offered his perspective. SEO-TDC is
working with the OBR and the STEM Grant
Project to develop a model that
could be used throughout the
region and all of Ohio.

31. Regional School Support
Race To the Top Support

32. Regional School Support
School Improvement Support
• SEOTDC Institutions offer assistance to an area High School
and a local School District. The two specific areas of need
identified by the High School are Common Core and Special
Education.
• The School District receives 1 free consulting day per month to
assist the superintendent in any areas she designates or
specifies to advance her leadership of the district. Key personnel
utilized in this area: Ohio University, Stevens Literacy Center;
Faculty in the Education Administration program at Ohio
University.
• These two examples demonstrate the ability of SEOTDC
to meet regional needs by using the specific strengths
of individual members on behalf of all.

34. Global Institute 2011:
Ohio Educators Going Global
Goals of Conference
• Share best practices in
international education
• Obtain new resources and tools for
internationalizing across the curriculum.
• Network with Ohio and international
PK-20 educators.
• Develop an action plan for implementation
in their classrooms, schools and districts.
178 educators from across Ohio
Held at Ohio University

36. Regional Conference:
Appalachia from an Assets Perspective
Focus on Assets of Appalachian culture and
community to enhance teaching and learning
Participants:
• Teacher Candidates
• P-12 Educators and Administrators
• IHE Faculty
• Community Agency Representatives
Held on campus of Shawnee State University

37. Appalachia from an Assets Perspective
Year-One Highlights:
• Dr. David Lucas, University faculty and “Folknographer”
• Former state senator and executive director of
Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools
• Ohio’s Deputy Superintendent for Public Instruction
• Five general and concurrent sessions

38. Appalachia from an
Assets Perspective
Year-Two Highlights:
• Resource Panel for Educators
• Dr. James M. Gifford, CEO and
Senior Editor of the Jesse Stuart
Foundation
• Author, Connie Nordhielm
Wooldridge
• Presentations by Ohio’s State
Superintendent and Associate
Superintendent for Public Instruction
• 13 concurrent sessions

39. Appalachia from an Assets Perspective
2011 conference attendees

40. Choose Appalachian Teaching
(CAT)
• Provides scholarships to HS Math and Science
• First CAT Scholar graduated this past May and is now
teaching HS Math Highland County
• Second CAT Scholar graduated in December and is
looking for a science teaching position

41. Choose Appalachian Teaching (CAT)
Total 6 25 25

42. Virtual STEM Hub Grant Project
• $1 million grant from Ohio Board of Regents
• Aspects of the Program
• STEM courses
• Labs
• Summer programming
• PD for schools in the region

43. Future Challenges
and Opportunities

44. Future Challenges and Opportunities
Full Scale of Teacher Performance Assessment
• Meeting to share information, ideas,
and strategies for implementation
• Collaboration for sharing resources
and partnership contracts
• Dissemination of unified information
for school partners

45. Future Challenges and Opportunities
Responding to Raising the
Bar through Recruitment Initiative

46. Future Challenges and Opportunities
Collaboration with Grant Opportunities

47. Future Challenges and Opportunities
Assisting P-12 Schools

48. Q&A