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Connecticut. Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Grant. Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform.
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Connecticut Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Grant
Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform • Funded by the US Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) as a technical assistance center to support states engaged in: • Reforming teacher and leadership preparation programs to embed evidence based practices • Revising licensure standards to align with reforms in teacher and leader preparation • Refining personnel evaluation systems in teacher and leader preparation programs • Realigning policy structures and professional learning systems • Goal: improving outcomes for students with disabilities.
Intersection and Coherence of Reform Initiatives • Educator Evaluation and Professional Learning System Reform: Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) • Pre-service preparation reform: Educator Preparation Advisory Council (EPAC) • Network for Transforming Educator Preparation (NTEP) Grant • CEEDAR Grant • CCSS and Smarter Balanced Assessment Implementation • Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) Program • Scientific Research-Based Interventions (SRBI)
State Outcome for the CEEDAR Grant 2013-2017 • Design and implementation of pre-service curricula for all TEACHER candidates (special education and non-special education) in order to provide opportunities to learn and demonstrate competency in evidence-based practices to improve core and specialized instruction to support SWD, ELLs and struggling learners reach college- and career-ready (CCR) standards in reading, writing and comprehension skills in argumentation. • Take a side of an argument and support it with evidence • Compare/contrast the authors perspective, key points/details (Grade 3) • Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably (Grade 4) • Analyze texts that address similar topics in order to build knowledge (Grade 9)
Central Connecticut State University National &State Ed Prep Reform Initiatives Redesign (Partnerships) CTEC (Governance Structure) CEEDAR CCSS PBIS EBP SRBI
Goal #1: Develop a set of core practices that will be emphasized throughout all of the teacher education programs in the Integrated Bachelor’s/Master’s track Goal #2: Develop a cross-endorsement licensure program for special education (SPED) and elementary education (EE)