COUNCIL FOR EDUCATOR PREPARATION
Minutes for March 8, 2021
Via Teams at 3:15 p.m.
The fifth meeting of the Council for Educator Preparation for the 2020-2021 academic year was held Monday, March 8, 2021 via Teams at 3:15 p.m. Members present: Kimberly Anderson, Susannah Berry, Ashley Cannan, Charity Cayton, Patch Clark, Bethann Cole, Vivian Covington (Chair), Bernice Dodor, Holly Fales, Nanyoung Kim, Laura Levi-Altstaedter, Rhea Miles, Dan Novey, Mikkaka Overstreet, Jeff Pizzutilla, Chris Rivera, Dawn Shelton, Nicole Smith, Rita Soulen, Julie Stanley, Student Reps-Jaya Batchelor and Ben Rollins, Cynthia Wagoner, Christy Walcott, Stacy Weiss, Kevin White and visitors Monisha Atkinson and Beth Edwards. Absent were LCSN-PCS-Rep Maurice Harris, and Art Rouse.
Approval of Minutes February 8. 2021 Meeting
A motion to approve the minutes of the February 8, 2021 meeting was made by Cynthia Wagoner and seconded by Bethann Cole with one addition. Dr. Weiss abstained from voting to approve the UG program items in the CEP Curriculum report. The minutes were accepted.
Announcements
A list of Intern Is and IIs were sent to Dr. Lanika Wright for vaccine eligibility. Student teachers are included as K-12 personnel/staff. Vaccines available at Vidant Health, Walgreens and CVS.
The Human Capital Round Table Proposed Framework for Educator Preparation and Licensure was discussed. Due to a shortage of educators, the proposed changes can expand the pool of qualified candidates, help them grow into great teachers and give them incentives to stay in the classroom helping students succeed.
Entry Level Certifications
- Learning Permit: Apprentice Teacher is valid for up to two years while earning a bachelor’s degree. Individuals must hold a transfer associate degree and work under an Expert Teacher.
Licenses 1-3 are valid for a combined total of five years and paired with Advanced Teacher.
- License 1, Teacher in Residency; must hold bachelor’s degree or have industry certification and experience, starting salary and Professional Advancement Account.
- License 2, Teacher in Residency-Skills Development; demonstrates mastery of content or pedagogy by passing required assessments, or completing state approved micro-credentials, or completing other approved process, increased salary, and Professional Advancement Account
- License 3, Teacher in Residency-Skills Advancement (EPP graduate); demonstrates mastery of content and pedagogy by passing required assessments, or completing state approved micro-credentials, or completing other approved process (menus to be added), increased salary, Professional Advancement Account and vested in retirement plan. Successful EPP graduates who pass content and pedagogy requirements at the time of licensure can enter at this level at a higher salary and vested in retirement plan.
- Individuals with License 1 or 2 can jump to Professional Level License 4 by demonstrating effectiveness.
Professional Level Certification and Advanced Credentials
Must be renewed every five years. Changes provide incentives for excellent teachers to stay in the classroom and grow into advanced teaching roles.
- License 4, Expert Teacher, must demonstrate highly effective teaching instruction for 3+ years out of 5, competitive professional salary
- Advanced Teacher, Classroom Excellence, must demonstrate highly effective teaching instruction for 3+ years out of 5, allows teachers to serve students at increased capacity, significantly increased salary once employed at this level
- Advanced Teacher, Adult Leadership, must demonstrate highly effective teaching instruction for 3+ years out of 5, increased effectiveness of staff being coached, competency in adult leadership via micro-credentials, allows teachers to lead other instructional staff, significantly increased salary once employed at this level
Standing Update from the Office of Assessment, Data Management and Digital Learning
Holly Fales, Director, gave the following updates.
edTPA Update—Scores are coming in; the bulk of ELEM has submitted. Most of those candidates who chose to Opt Out are completing this term. Three required seminars for current Residency candidates are being held by Sarah Sconyers and Holly Fales to assist with edTPA knowledge, video capture techniques/requirements, and submission details. There is no Opt Out of edTPA available this spring for any pathway, traditional or alternative.
CAEP Update—The Self-Study Report due date has been extended to June 30, 2021 due to the lateness of CAEP’s release of the Handbook for CAEP Accreditation. Standard I is currently being rewritten due to the changes made in the Handbook. CPAST performance data is looking good and that tool is serving us well for the data we wanted it to capture. Exit Surveys have been shortened and aligned to the corresponding CAEP standard by the committee working on this task.
Holly shared the data from the LCSN Principal Focus Group conducted in February. Her presentation included actual information received from Principals via Jamboard. This information will be shared with program coordinators with a survey for feedback once they review it within their areas.
Standing Update from Office of Clinical Experiences & Alternative Licensure
Nicole Smith, Lead Coordinator gave the following update:
The Virtual Career Fair is March 17, 2021. This is a mandatory Intern II seminar and Intern IIs have received many emails about how to register in Handshake and sign up for the three required interactions.
Early Release date for spring 2021 is April 19th and available to candidates who have successfully completed edTPA, met observation requirements, and will graduate with last classes completed in Spring 2021.
Clinical teachers who had an Intern I and were not trained previously need the Clinical Teaching Training and should register by May 5. There are three windows in which to complete the training: June 14-18, June 21-25, and July 12-18. In Pitt County, the principal is point of contact to whom the information is sent. In the other districts it goes to the district liaison to the LCSN then to principals. (Download Training Flyer).
One hundred seventy-five (175) candidates have been fully accepted into the Residency program, which includes those who were raising their GPA and are now eligible to begin.
The four Partnership Teach coordinators will be advising the fall 2021 Residency cohort, while Monisha Atkinson, Nicole Moore and Julia Lynch finish out with their cohorts, gear up for fall and spring placements, and continue to assist with intake of new cohorts. Dr. Smith has Residency advisees as well.
Old Business
All pathways to licensure are required to submit edTPA.
OEP no longer requires nor assists with faculty licensure. DPI stopped requiring faculty licensure for those teaching methods and supervising Interns about 8 years ago and stopped issuing the “Methods Faculty” license about 3 years ago. ECU kept the licensure requirement up until 1.5 years ago. All departments and program coordinators were informed of this as well as CEP at the time the decision was made. It is a departmental decision whether to require a faculty member or adjunct to hold a license, as it may be needed in some cases to assist with faculty credentialling.
New Business
Fall Practica Placements—Vivian Covington and Nicole Smith have had discussions with other IHEs, LCSN and program areas and met with the university attorney this term regarding placements. There are a lot of questions and few answers regarding virtual vs face-to-face practica. CAEP, NC General Assembly and SBE/DPI have been flexible due to the pandemic, but prior to the pandemic only face-to-face internships were allowed in NC and even fully online entities like Western Governors University, Grand Canyon University, which are CAEP accredited required face-to-face internships in the candidate’s home state of residence. Drs. Covington, Smith and Fales will continue to talk with attorneys, other UNC-SO IHEs, the LCSN, the DPI and make a call about fall practica before faculty leave for the end of the semester, if possible. We may need to look at some form of practica course prioritization or phase in for fall, ex. Junior II anchor courses only for the fall; or one course per program area of their choosing, etc. Our goal is to be back to placing all practica face-to-face in spring 2022.
The Governor and both parties in the NCGA, along with the State Superintendent came together to pass a bill that allows K-12 candidates to return to school full time, every day with reduced restrictions for social distancing in classrooms. Mask are still required all day, every day as well as screenings and daily cleanings of high touch areas. Schools can maintain a virtual option for those students who parents wish to keep them online. WE are waiting to see how this plays out as it will affect how schools look ahead to the fall and whether practica can be placed and if so, how many. Some schools are choosing to keep one day of virtual learning per week but doing away with A/B weeks for students to attend – everyone can attend each day.
Standing Committees
Curriculum – Christy Walcott reported the committee met February 24, 2021 and approved the following changes.
Elem & MIDG – UG
The faculty in the Department of Elementary and Middle Grades Education as well as the mathematics education faculty in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Instructional Technology Education proposed and agreed on the following curricular changes to the mathematics concentrations for BS Elementary Education and BS Middle Grades Education degree.
In the BS Elementary program, remove the following courses from the elementary mathematics concentration: MATE 1267 – Functional Relationships; MATE 2067 – Data and Probability Explorations; MATE 3167 – Geometry and Measurement; MATE 3267 – Concepts in Discrete Mathematics; MATH 1065 – College Algebra; MATH 2127 – Basic Concepts of Mathematics
Add the following courses to the elementary mathematics concentration: MATE 2129 – Investigations into Concepts of Elementary Mathematics with revisions; new course MATE 3030 – Geometry and Measurement for Elementary Teachers; MATE 3060 – Mathematics and Methods for Grades 3-6 with revisions; new course MATE 3330 – Rational Number; and new course MATE 3630 – Mathematical Modeling for Elementary Grades
In the BS Middle Grades Education, remove the following courses from the middle grades mathematics concentration; MATE 2067 Data and Probability Explorations; MATE 3167 Geometry and Measurements; MATE 3267 Discrete Mathematics
Add the following courses to the middle grades mathematics concentration: MATE 2700 Applications in Statistics & Probability with revisions; MATE 3300 Foundations of Geometry with revisions; MATE 2800 Discrete Mathematics: Explorations & Applications with revisions.
MATE 4319 prerequisites will be changed to align with proposed changes in the Middle Grades Education (6-8), BS Program
BS Math Education
The mathematics education faculty of the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Instructional Technology Education proposed changes to the BS Mathematics, Secondary Education program.
Modify and add MATE 1267 to the program curriculum, revising MATE 2700, MATE 2800, MATE 3300 and adjust course prerequisites to avoid registration issues (MATE 3367).
School of Music
Five new Courses – MUSC 1123 Introduction to Music Education, 1 SH; MUSC 3218 Introduction to Ensemble Teaching 2 SH (replaces MUSC 3217); MUSC 3147 Music in Early Childhood 3 SH (replaces MUSC 3237/3287); MUSC 3347 Advanced Choral Rehearsal Techniques 3 SH (replaces MUSC 3247/3287); MUSC 3447 Advanced Instrumental Rehearsal Techniques 3 SH (replaces MUSC 3227)
Revision of one existing course – MUSC 2345 Music in Adolescence 2 SH, changing title from Introduction to Secondary General Music to Music in Adolescence
Removing eight courses from the degree program – MUSC 1455 Introduction to Winds and Percussion; MUSC 3176 Theory V; EDUC 3200 Foundations of American Education; MUSC 3217 Beginning Instruction in Instrumental Music Education; MUSC 3227 Rehearsal Techniques in Secondary in Instrumental Music Education; MUSC 3237 Beginning Instruction in Vocal-Choral Music Education; MUSC 3247 Rehearsal Techniques in Secondary Vocal-Choral Music Education; MUSC 3287 Choral Lab
Revision of the degree requirements for the applied minor concentration – Applied minor concentration will remain at 8 SH.
Non-keyboard majors. Required courses MUSC 1105 Group Piano (1 SH) & MUSC 1115 Group Piano (1 SH). Select from the following applied minor courses 6 SH from the following:
MUSC 1205 Group Voice I; MUSC1215 Group Voice II; MUSC 3105 Functional Guitar; MUSC 1415 WW Group; MUSC 1435 Brass Group; MUSC 1445 Percussion; MUSC 2315 Strings
Keyboard Majors will select from the following courses 7 SH, with 1 SH of music elective
MUSC 1205 Group Voice I; MUSC 1215 Group Voice II; MUSC 2115 Intermediate group Piano; MUSC 3105 Functional Guitar; MUSC 1415 WW Group; MUSC 1435 Brass Group; MUSC 1445 Percussion; MUSC 2315 Strings; MUSC 2105 Intermediate Group Piano
Deleting three courses from the catalog – MUSC 3237 Beginning Instruction in Vocal-General Music Education; MUSC 3247 Rehearsal Techniques in Secondary Vocal-Choral Music Education; MUSC 3287 Choral Laboratory
Special Ed, Found & Research – Revision in MAED in Special Education
Revise program description; Reduce required hours for degree completion from 39 SH to 30 SH.
Modify required core from 9 SH to 3 SH (ADED/ELEM 6500 and EDUC 6001 will no longer be required, but may be taken as electives)
Reduce concentration hours from 30 SH to 27 SH (SPED 6011 will no longer be required, but may be taken as an elective)
Remove outdated MAEd “umbrella” descriptive text and redundant requirements from catalog
Revise catalog description to note required field experience and deletion of select pre-requisites (SPED 6012, 6014, 6015, 6020, 6021, 6022, 6023, 6025, 6027, 6030, 6031, 6994, 7002)
All proposals were accepted by CEP.
The next CEP Curriculum meeting will be March 24, 2021. Proposals need to be submitted one week prior to the meeting. Catalogue deadline is March 25, 2021.
Evaluation & Planning – Chair Cynthia Wagoner, no report
Admissions & Retention – Chair Charity Cayton, no report. If May 10 meeting is not held, she may send out information regarding Student Teacher of the Year award after the April meeting.
Policy – Chair Laura Levi-Altstaedter, no report
Rhea Miles moved to adjourn and was seconded by Cynthia Wagoner. The meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
Meeting Dates for 2020–2021 via Teams — April 12 and May 10 (if needed for anything COVID related)
Respectfully submitted,
Sherry S. Tripp