Meetings

M E M O R A N D U M

TO: Members, Indiana Professional Standards Board

FROM: Judy Briganti, Chair
Continuing Education Committee (CEC)

DATE: June 21, 2000

SUBJECT: Continuing Education Committee – Minutes of May 19, 2000, Meeting

CEC members present on May 19, 2000: Judy Briganti, Sheliah Dorton, Irene Eskridge, Richard Frisbie, Nancy Geyer, Phyllis Largey, and Ena Shelley.

CEC members unable to attend: Diane Airhart, Daniel Hartz, and Linda Hus.

Others in attendance: Tom Hansen.

The Continuing Education Committee (CEC) of the Indiana Professional Standards Board (IPSB) was convened on May 19, 2000, at 8:30 a.m. in the 9th Floor Executive Committee Room, Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA), by Ms. Briganti, Chair.

I. Consultations with representatives of education stakeholders groups: None.

II. Materials reviewed as related to the CEC's charge:

A. Minutes of the April 13-14, 2000, CEC Meeting - Approved

B. CEC Response to Draft Rule 3-4 - Renewal - Version 1.0

C. Draft Professional Growth Plan Forms

D. Draft Professional Growth Experience Points Guidelines

E. E-Mail from Diane Airhart to CEC Regarding Draft Professional Growth Plan Forms

F. CEC Teacher License Renewal Backmapping Pilot Project Outline

III. Issues/Questions examined as related to the CEC's charge:

A. The committee discussed its response to Draft Rule 3-4 - Renewal - Version 1.0, with Tom Hansen, IPSB Director of Legal and External Affairs.

B. The committee reviewed the draft Professional Growth Plan forms and draft Professional Growth Experience points guidelines using, as a discussion guide, Diane Airhart's e-mail based on her trial exercise in completing the forms. The committee assigned Richard Frisbie to compile a draft pilot manual based on the forms.

C. The committee reviewed and approved an outline of the pilot project.

D. The committee approved four recommendations to be submitted to the Executive Committee at its May 24, 2000, meeting. If approved by the Executive Committee, these recommendations will be discussed and submitted to the Board as a whole at its June 21, 2000, Discussion Session and Business Meeting. The recommendations are:

1. Add a third allowable method for renewing a teacher's license–the current method under Rules 46-47 for current license holders only. A teacher would have the option to use either of the other two methods, but if either of these other methods were used, the teacher would never be permitted to go back to the Rules 46-47 method.

2. Make Professional Growth Teams for teachers optional. If used, the teacher would establish Professional Growth Teams.

3. Do not require the teacher's Professional Growth Plan to be approved by the Professional Growth Team, or any other body, before it may be implemented.

4. Rather than solicit school corporations, the committee will recruit individual teachers to participate in a "backmapping" pilot project. The Executive Committee will act on behalf of the Board for any necessary approvals related to implementing the pilot.

The meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m. The CEC meeting scheduled for Friday, June 16, 2000, was tentatively cancelled, pending the outcome of the CEC's recommendations to the Executive Committee at its May 24, 2000, meeting. The next meeting of the CEC is scheduled for Friday, September 22, 2000, at the Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) Executive Committee Room on the 9th floor from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The address is 150 West Market Street, Suite 900, Indianapolis, IN 46204.

TO:	Members, Indiana Professional Standards Board
FROM:	Judy Briganti, Chair Continuing Education Committee (CEC)
DATE:	June 21, 2000
SUBJECT:	Continuing Education Committee – Minutes of May 19, 2000, Meeting

I.	Consultations with representatives of education stakeholders groups: None.
II.	Materials reviewed as related to the CEC's charge:
	A.	Minutes of the April 13-14, 2000, CEC Meeting - Approved
	B.	CEC Response to Draft Rule 3-4 - Renewal - Version 1.0
	C.	Draft Professional Growth Plan Forms
	D.	Draft Professional Growth Experience Points Guidelines
	E.	E-Mail from Diane Airhart to CEC Regarding Draft Professional Growth Plan Forms
	F.	CEC Teacher License Renewal Backmapping Pilot Project Outline
III.	Issues/Questions examined as related to the CEC's charge:
	A.	The committee discussed its response to Draft Rule 3-4 - Renewal - Version 1.0, with Tom Hansen, IPSB Director of Legal and External Affairs.
	B.	The committee reviewed the draft Professional Growth Plan forms and draft Professional Growth Experience points guidelines using, as a discussion guide, Diane Airhart's e-mail based on her trial exercise in completing the forms. The committee assigned Richard Frisbie to compile a draft pilot manual based on the forms.
	C.	The committee reviewed and approved an outline of the pilot project.
	D.	The committee approved four recommendations to be submitted to the Executive Committee at its May 24, 2000, meeting. If approved by the Executive Committee, these recommendations will be discussed and submitted to the Board as a whole at its June 21, 2000, Discussion Session and Business Meeting. The recommendations are:
		1. Add a third allowable method for renewing a teacher's license–the current method under Rules 46-47 for current license holders only. A teacher would have the option to use either of the other two methods, but if either of these other methods were used, the teacher would never be permitted to go back to the Rules 46-47 method.
		2. Make Professional Growth Teams for teachers optional. If used, the teacher would establish Professional Growth Teams.
		3. Do not require the teacher's Professional Growth Plan to be approved by the Professional Growth Team, or any other body, before it may be implemented.
		4. Rather than solicit school corporations, the committee will recruit individual teachers to participate in a "backmapping" pilot project. The Executive Committee will act on behalf of the Board for any necessary approvals related to implementing the pilot.