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| Director of Teacher Education and the Minority Teacher Recruitment Center |
| Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education |
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Kyle Dahlem's professional
experience includes 26 years
as a K-12 English teacher
and librarian, six years
as a full-time association
officer, and six years with
the Oklahoma State Regents.
During that time, she served
on the Oklahoma Commission
for Teacher Preparation
and the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards,
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Ms. Dahlem received the
NWOSU 2000 Outstanding
Education Award and
the 2004 Ambassador
Award from the Oklahoma
State Regents. In 2000,
upon receiving a Title II
Teacher Quality grant, she
assumed the additional title
of director of the Oklahoma
Teacher Enhancement Program
(OTEP). In that role, she
had oversight of the development
of assessments to demonstrate
the impact of teacher preparation
on K-12 student achievement,
including the highly reliable
Teacher Work Sample Methodology.
A native Oklahoman, she
holds degrees from Kansas
State of Pittsburg and Northwestern
Oklahoma State University. |
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| Assistant Dean, College of Education |
| Idaho State University |
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| Peter Denner is assistant
dean for Assessment and professor
of educational psychology.
His current scholarly interests
are focused on standards-based
performance assessments of
educator quality and information
systems in professional education.
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| He was both the institutional coordinator and the assessment coordinator for Idaho State University 's participation in the Renaissance Partnership. |
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| Emeritus Director of the Institute for Assessment and Evaluation, College of Education |
| University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
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| Russell French has helped
teacher preparation institutions
design comprehensive assessment
programs to meet NCATE and/or
state accreditation standards.
He has worked with more than
350 school systems, higher
education institutions and
state and regional education
agencies encompassing 35 states,
as well as several national
groups. |
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| He served on the national advisory panel that assisted Western Oregon University in development and research of Teacher Work Sample Methodology and has used TWSM in the design of both preservice and inservice teacher assessment programs. Dr. French currently chairs AACTE's Research and Publications Committee. |
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| Director of Teacher Education and Licensure |
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| Kansas State Department of Education |
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| Martha Gage began her career in education as a teacher and, after acquiring both a master's degree and Ph.D., taught and served as a unit head in higher education for 16 years. While in higher education she served as president of the K-ACTE and on the Kansas Professional Advisory Standards Board. She moved to the Kansas Department of Education in 1998 and into the director position in 2000. She supervises a staff of 14 that processes over 20,000 applications for licenses a year. |
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| She is in charge of the accreditation and program approval process for the 22 educator preparation institutions in Kansas. She is also a member of the Board of Examiners for NCATE. She has been a leader in the reform of certification in Kansas to a performance-based licensure system that was implemented in fall 2005. She is married, and has two children and two grandchildren. |
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| Dean, School of Education |
| Sonoma State University |
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Dr. Mary Gendernalik-Cooper is currently the Dean of the School of Education and professor of Educational Leadership at Sonoma State University. Dr. Gendernalik-Cooper holds a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University, and an M.A.T. in Social Science Education and a Ph.D. in Education Policy Studies from Wayne State University. |
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Her research interests are education reform, distributed leadership, and program assessment. Dr. Gendernalik-Cooper has led numerous educator preparation reform initiatives, and Professional Development School collaboratives. |
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| Emeritus Dean, College of Education |
| Western Oregon University |
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| Jerry Girod is emeritus dean and faculty at Western Oregon University. Most recently, he served as editor for "Connecting Teaching and Learning: A Handbook for Teacher Educators on Teacher Work Sample Methodology." |
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| He has developed a Web-based simulation, " Cook School District," for teacher candidates to practice teacher work sample skills and is the principal investigator within a USOE grant of the simulation. |
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| Assistant Professor, Teacher Education |
| Western Oregon University |
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| Mark Girod teaches social and cultural foundations of education, research methods, and learning and development. His research interests include adolescent development, science education, and applications of technology to teaching and learning. He earned a Ph.D. at Michigan State University and lives on a farm with his wife, two children and dog. |
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