Extending the Culture of Evidence:

Teacher Work Samples and Other Promising Practices

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel

July 19 - 21, 2006

 

Thursday, July 20
7 a.m. - noon	Registration
7:00 - 8:00	Continental Breakfast
	Discussion Table: "Theory Initiative Overview"
8:00 - 9:00	Keynote Address	Dr. Donna Gollnick, Senior Vice President, NCATE
		Presentation Title: "Learning to Teach...Teaching for Learning: The Changing Focus of Accreditation"
		Introduction: Del Schalock
9:00 – 9:15	Break
9:15 – 10:45	Session I
	Strand A - "Connecting the dots from preparation to practice: The Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership"
		Bob Yinger, Ohio 's Teacher Quality Partnership
	Strand B - “Work Sample Methodology in a P-16 Culture of Accountability: Policy and Procedural Directions and Needed Research”
		Russell French and Gary Skolits
		University of Tennessee
	Strand C - "Tracing Connections Among Teaching, Teacher Preparation, and K - 12 Learning: Four Decades of Development and Research at Western Oregon University"
		Del Schalock and Mark Schalock
		Western Oregon University
10:45 – 11	Refreshment Break
11 – 12:30	Session II
	Strand A - " Significant and Sustainable Change Through Systemic Partnerships"
		Karen Wetherill, University of N. Carolina at Wilmington
		Significant and Sustainable Change Through Systemic Partnerships
		Denise Beeler Jones, Kentucky Teacher Internship Program
		Significant and Sustainable Change Through Systemic Partnerships
	Strand B - "The Power of Partnership to Develop, Implement and Disseminate Teacher Work Sample Processes:  The Renaissance Group Story"
		Roger Pankratz, Western Kentucky University, presiding
		"A Significant Development in the Landscape of Teacher Work Samples"
		Steven Neill, Emporia State University
		Antony Norman, Longwood University
		Vicki Robinson, University of Northern Iowa
	Strand C - "Preparing Preservice Teachers to Make Instructional Decisions: An Examination of the Teacher Work Sample"
		John Henning, University of Northern Iowa
12:30 – 2	Lunch
2 – 3:15	Session III
	Strand A - "Cook School District: A Simulation to Help Teachers Learn to Operate in a Culture of Evidence"
		Jerry Girod and Mark Girod
		Western Oregon University
	Strand B - NCATE Question and Answer
		Donna Gollnick, Senior Vice President, NCATE
	Strand C - "Extending the Culture of Evidence: Research"
		Ray Pecheone and Ruth Chung, Stanford University
3:15 – 3:30	Refreshment Break
3:30 – 5:00	Session IV
	"Connecting University-Based Teacher Education with K-12 Pupil Learning: Lessons from the Teachers for a New Era Initiative"
		Robin White, Academy for Educational Development
		Edward Crowe, Academy for Educational Development
		Beverly Cabello, California State University, Northridge
		Leland Cogan, Michigan State University
5:00 p.m.	Dinner on Your Own

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