Missouri Advisory Council for Certified Educators September 25, 2006
Hotel DeVille, Jefferson City
The Missouri Advisory Council of Certification for Educators met September 24-25, 2006, at the Jefferson City Hotel DeVille.
Members Present:
Melissa Albright..................... Missouri National Education Association
Della Bell.............................. Missouri State Teachers Association
Imogene Clark....................... Missouri State Teachers Association
Donna Collins........................ Missouri National Education Association
Tammy Condren.................... Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals
Barb Dozier........................... Missouri National Education Association
Tim Ema............................... Missouri National Education Association
Andrea Flinders..................... AFT Missouri, AFL-CIO
Donna Gardner...................... Missouri Association of College for Teacher Education
Linda Gray-Smith................... Missouri Association of School Administrators
Gale “Hap” Hairston................ Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Cindy Hart............................. Missouri State Teachers Association
Anna Marie Kulback............... Missouri State Teachers Association
Carol Lupardus...................... Missouri School Boards’ Association
Paul Shrout........................... Missouri Chapter-American Association of School Personnel
Administrators American Association for Employment in
Education
Girard “Jerry” Thornton............ Missouri Teacher of the Year
Joyce Piveral......................... Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Patrick Quick........................ Missouri State Teachers Association
Kim Robinson........................ Missouri Federation of Teachers & School Related Personnel
Russell Smithson................... Missouri State Teachers Association
Paula Shields........................ Missouri State Teachers Association
Julia Todd.............................. Missouri National Education Association
Al Cade Jr............................. Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Judith Webb.......................... Missouri National Education Association
Robert Williams..................... Missouri Community Colleges Association
John R. Zelazek..................... Missouri Unit Association of Teacher Educators
Others Absent:
Sheryl Tucker........................ University of Missouri Columbia
Linda Wyman........................ Lincoln University
DESE Staff Present:
Rusty Rosenkoetter............... Executive Secretary, MACCE
Karen Shanks........................ Educator Certification
Mike Lucas........................... Educator Preparation
Visitors Present:
Lela K. Bunch........................ Missouri School Counselors Association
Scott Feidler.......................... Missouri State University
Penny Greene....................... Maryville University
Chris Guinther....................... Missouri National Education Association
Cindy Whitaker...................... Missouri State Teachers Association
Lynnette Calder..................... Missouri National Education Association
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order by Hap Hairston.
Adoption of Agenda
A motion was made by Patrick Quick to adopt the agenda with flexibility, seconded by Donna Collins. Vote: 23 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstentions.
Approval of April 24, 2006 Minutes
There were a few changes to the April 24, 2006, minutes. Donna Collins was not at that meeting. The urban flight scholarship will help teachers who teach in urban areas, (not students).
There currently is no written Missouri standard for ethics.
Clarify the wording removing “no grade lower than a C” in MoSTEP rule proposal.
On the mentoring report, it will be presented to the State Board of Education as it had already been presented to MACCE.
A motion was made by Russell Smithson to adopt the minutes with corrections, motion seconded by Della Bell. Vote: 23 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstentions.
Public/Guest Welcome and Introductions
Patrick Quick welcomed the guests and the guests introduced themselves.
Report on Commissioner’s Conference Call and Last Board Meeting
A conference call with the Commissioner was made on May 22, 2006. Those in attendance were Commissioner King, Rusty Rosenkoetter, Mike Lucas, Hap Hairston, and Patrick Quick via phone. They recapped what was worked on in the past year and the reports to the State Board. The dates of the MACCE meetings for this year were reviewed.
Rusty updated the Commissioner on the progress of the beginning teacher mentoring website.
The list of competencies for review this year were identified, the Education Development Project received the bid again this year. There was talk about the revitalization of MACCE by keeping the website current, better communication, and possibly including representatives from the colleges of Arts and Sciences.
The State Board of Education meeting went well. Linda Gray-Smith presented the report on mentoring and Donna Gardner presented the report on recruitment and retention. These reports were the culmination of three years of work on these topics by MACCE.
Election for Chair and Vice-Chair
Anna Marie Kulback made a motion to nominate Hap Hairston for chair; the motion was seconded by Paula Shields.
Della Bell made a motion to nominate Patrick Quick for vice-chair; the motion was seconded by Imogene Clark.
Andrea Flinders made a motion to nominate Julia Todd for vice-chair; the motion was seconded by John Zelazek.
Each candidate gave a short description of his/her qualifications.
Hap was elected unanimously with 23 votes.
Julia Todd received 11 votes and Patrick Quick received 12 votes. Patrick Quick will serve as the vice-chair.
Welcome From Dr. King
Dr. King thanked MACCE for all of their hard work. There was a lengthy discussion on the HOUSSE rule. Forms were sent to 16,338 teachers in the districts. These are due back to the federal programs section of DESE by October 1, 2006.
Anyone certified before 1988 will have to fill out a HOUSSE form to prove that they are meeting the federal NCLB standards. As of Friday, 367 districts had sent in information and 53% of the teachers have filled it in, with only 5.3% not meeting the standards.
The charge that the commissioner wants MACCE to work on is the need for competent teachers that meet highly qualified standards in the urban areas. The revised plan must include a copy of the states written equity plan for ensuring that poor or minority students are not taught by inexperienced or unqualified or out-of-field teachers at a higher rate than the other children(in suburban and rural areas).
There was also a discussion on virtual schools, how will it be funded, and who will be teaching the classes. The virtual school will verify that these teachers are highly qualified in the same manner as non-virtual schools.
The virtual school will be available for all grade levels and all classes. There will be some virtual classes in public schools and colleges and there will be some done at home. All virtual school credits will have to be accepted by a public school. Diplomas will be issued by the public schools. The students in the virtual school will also have to take MAP tests.
Executive Secretary Reports
In the MACCE budget update, we originally requested $59,000 for the upcoming year. The budget was reduced to $58,000. During the approval process the amount was reduced to $50,000. The mentoring website is costing more than was expected. Almost every request was reviewed and reduced this year for budgeting.
Vacancies on MACCE still exist for the replacement of Bob Steffes and Kimberly Robinson who both resigned. There are also 6 new members this year due to retirement or term limitations.
Rusty gave a brief recap on how the reviews of the competencies are conducted. Bill Foster and Mike Walker will be here in December to give an updated report on the review of the school counselor and art competencies.
Missouri Association for School Psychologists raised the question as to whether or not an alternative route to certification could be possible for school psychologists.
The association says that having a national license, meets all of the Missouri licensure requirements.
MACCE would like for a representative to come and talk to MACCE to answer questions regarding Missouri certification requirements and national requirements and how they compare. A question arose as to whether the email addressed all school psychologists or only the ones that are applying from out of state. Rusty will verify what they are actually asking.
There will be members from the colleges of arts and sciences attending MACCE this year. This idea came from the proposal to revamp MACCE last year because the arts and sciences were not represented on the council. Dr. Sheryl Tucker from University of Missouri Columbia and Dr. Linda Wyman from Lincoln University will be those representatives. Dr. Tucker works with the majority of the science teachers from MU and Dr. Wyman works with the vast majority of English teachers from Lincoln University. The two representatives for this year will serve on an advisory basis. Then, at the end of the year, it could be reviewed to see if they would keep that status or become ex-officio members. They should both be able to attend the meeting in December.
The mentoring website is up and running. Rusty stated that she would like for all of the members to visit the website and review it. There are video clips showing mentoring examples. The site has blogs where teachers and mentors can share information. The site contains online PD opportunities for the teachers. This site is meant to grow as it is used. After you have had a chance to review, at the next meeting we can go over anything that needs to be updated or changed.
MACCE had good comments on the set up and user friendliness of the website. It was asked if there is a moderator reviewing the blogs? There is no moderator, but there are built in features to block inappropriate words and comments and Successlink will be reviewing the site.
We are checking to see if Career Ladder money can be used for paying mentors.
Dr. Charles Brown (assistant commissioner of the Division of Teacher Quality and Urban Education) is in Wellston again this year. He is making great progress there.
Two weeks ago, Rusty made a brief report to MACTE. MACTE wanted to know what we are “up to” in certification. Certification is still working towards upgrading our technology to have our forms online and have electronic transcripts. This will be at least a half million dollar project.
In certification, the supervisory staff is assigned to certain subject areas, Mark Shore has left Career Education Certification and went back to the classroom. His replacement is Debbie Butcher, she is doing Career Education, Troops to Teachers, ROTC and AEL. Other new employees are Kim Miller, Amy Lee, and Lisa McDonald.
Concerns were voiced that mentoring is not being taken forward as they would like. Rusty stated that mentoring will play a large role in the next MSIP review process.
Subcommittee Work
MACCE is working on prioritizing their ideas for supporting new teachers. MACCE set a list of 25 priorities and they were ranked by amount of money invested based on a hypothetical $1 invested by each MACCE member. (Please see attached list with totals.)
The formal presentation of the MACCE priorities is set for the State Board Meeting in December.
The next item was to set the charges for MACCE for the upcoming year are as follows:
- Work with the top 10 list and make suggestions on how to accomplish what is on the list.
Plan to address the equity issue as requested by the Commissioner.
Blueprint on how to get the teachers that do not qualify for highly qualified up to standards.
Identify instructional paras that have an interest in certification and helping them to get certified.
Develop the language for the next MSIP cycle so that we are prepared ahead of time.
The design of the teaching job, how has it changed?
From a teacher standpoint; what could higher education do to help teachers succeed?
Provide a program for regular teachers to become certified in special education.
1. Equity (high quality teachers to all districts), incentives and priorities.
2. Redesign of our profession
3. Collaboration of higher education and school districts.
Will there be other issues coming from NCLB that will affect certification in the near future? We would like to have Dee Beck come and present on NCLB at the February meeting.
Subcommittees met with the following members:
Equity Sub-Committee:
Donna Collins, chair
Judy Webb
Donna Gardner
Della Bell
Andrea Flinders
Barb Dozier
Patrick Quick
Paul Shrout
Linda Gray-Smith
The subcommittee will take a look at what incentives are being offered and why teachers stay or leave.
Linda will bring the McRel study on why teachers stay or leave the profession.
If DESE has data on average salary and turnover rate, the subcommittee would like to see that along with the profile of the districts on Highly Qualified. From Core Data they would like a list of the top 15 districts that have had teachers teaching out of their certification area.
They will look at the possibility of portability of retirement. Want to arrange for the PSRS director coming to talk to us about that at a future meeting.
What about portability of teaching experience and salary? Will that work?
Donna Gardner will try to find some drastic changes that would help bring about changes in the school setting that will really help attract and retain highly qualified teachers.
They would like to examine financial data also such as salaries and benefits.
Redesign Sub-Committee:
Tim Ema-Chair
Melissa Albright
Imogene Clark
Cindy Hart
John R. Zelazek
Jerry Thornton
They will look at the profession as a whole, job descriptions and expectations of teachers and administrators.
Look at year-round school and professional development and how that fits together
What is the public perception of teaching as a whole?
Look at why the school day is scheduled the way it is. Why aren’t the bus schedules and plan of the days more kid oriented?
Look at new technology and how it fits into the classroom.
Also look at teacher tenure.
Collaboration of higher education and teacher needs:
Paula Shields-Chair
Joyce Piveral
Julia Todd
Russell Smithson
Al Cade
Robert Williams
Anna Marie Kulback
Mike Lucas
Community colleges are developing an Associate of Arts degree in teaching program that will tie into the four-year program.
They talked about what higher education is supposed to be doing with standards 4 & 5.
The teacher representatives of the sub-committee will talk to other teachers to get an idea of what new teachers need from colleges.
They will look at administrator surveys. The survey return rate is not high, but it does provide some feedback.
Other Business
Next MACCE meeting will be December 3-4, 2006, at Capitol Plaza.
MACTE will not present at December meeting of state board.
MACCE will present at the State Board on December 14, 2006.
Adjournment
The motion was made and seconded to adjourn.
Respectfully submitted,
Rusty Rosenkoetter, Executive Secretary
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