Connecticut Educator Certification Council
To engage in a collaborative, consensus based process to modernize and align Connecticut's educator certification processes with the challenges of the moment so that Connecticut can continue to attract and retain the highest quality professionals for employment in all of our public schools.Meeting Agendas and Minutes
8/28/23- Welcome and introductions.
- Clarity of Council purpose, sorting out immediate, short, and long term issues.
- Understanding of process parameters.
- Process Phases, target meeting dates.
- Understanding and commitment to Council Norms and consensus decision making.
- Understanding and commitment to the Pareto Principle and Systems Thinking.
- Ensuring access to shared planning drive and Council resources.
- Review Phase Two Thoughtexchange prompt.
- Meeting 2 pre-work and expectations.
- The Council will brainstorm our own sense of these issues, gather information from constituents, process it, and ultimately prioritize it so that these most critical beliefs/design principles and impacts can serve as the primary foundation that will guide the rest of the Council’s deliberations and decisions.
- Review outcomes and Parking Lot considerations from meeting one (see presentation PDF for this meeting in the Presentations folder)
- Explore results of the Thoughtexchange (see Thoughtexchange PDFs in the Consensus Building Resources folder)
- Define the process outcomes and design principles that will drive the process.
10/16/23, 12pm-3:30pm
- Purpose of today - parking lot review from 9/18
- Desired state review - definitions of quality, accountability, connection to EPPs
- Systems focus - amnesty - not solving problems today, we are seeking to understand.
- CSDE 10,000 view - laws, regulations, system entry points and tiered progressions.
- West Ed - a history of regulatory and process changes and reciprocity analysis
- CPRL - Perceptions of the field and pathway comparisons
- Next steps
11/20/23, 12pm-3:30pm
- Welcome back and review of agenda and focus
- Purpose of today - parking lot review from 10/16
- Desired state review – elephants in the room
- Brainstorming Strategies for moving forward...
- Processing and Next steps
12/11/23, 12pm-3:30pm
- Welcome back and review of agenda and focus
- EPP data share
- CPRL presentation of Professional Standards Boards - outline, strengths and weaknesses
- Standards Board discussion - warm, cool, questions.
- Pathway decision
- TBD
- Processing and next steps
1/8/24, 12pm-3:30pm
- Welcome back and review of agenda and focus
- Reviewing a proposed framework for moving the Professional Standards Board concept forward (three requirements for a successful legislative package)
- Framing the characteristics of a state-level board
- Confirming the board type (advisory with oomph)
- Defining scope of responsibilities
- Board membership
- Operational structures
- Codifying a set of streamlined and flexible pathways to certification
- Strengthen pathway quality by building on existing processes and tools
- Framing the characteristics of a state-level board
- Reviewing Thoughtexchange results from 12/11
- Building out responses to essential questions regarding Board characteristics
- Considering potential legislative framework that captures all three legs of the framework.
- Processing and next steps.
1/22/24, 12pm-3:30pm
- Welcome back and review of agenda and focus
- Reviewing a proposed framework for moving the Professional Standards Board concept forward (three requirements for a successful legislative package)
- Overview of synthesis from 1/8/24.
- Building out responses to essential questions regarding Pathways to Certification and Ensuring Pathway Quality
- Processing and next steps.
2/5/24, 12pm-3:30pm
- Welcome back and review of agenda and focus
- Review of all decisions so far in our 3 areas – 22 considered, 9 still open.
- Working through our open issues by category and priority.
- Processing and next steps.
2/26/24, 12pm-3:30pm
3/11/24, 12pm-3:30pm
Members
| Name | Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Barzee | sbarzee@wested.org | West Ed |
| Erin Benham | edb22@sbcglobal.net | State Board of Education (SBE) |
| Leslie Blatteau | lblatteau@nhft933.org | AFT |
| D’Ante Borawski | borawskid@fpsct.org | Farmington Public Schools (FPSCT) |
| Beth Bye | beth.bye@ct.gov | Office of Early Childhood (OEC) |
| Liz Chu | Emc2170@tc.columbia.edu | Columbia (CPRL) |
| Jonathan Costa FACILITATOR | costa@edadvance.org | EdAdvance |
| Kate Dias | kated@cea.org | CEA |
| Anne Dichele | anne.dichele@quinnipiac.edu | Quinnipiac |
| Karen DuBois-Walton | kdwalton@elmcitycommunities.org | State Board of Education (SBE) |
| Iris Gomero | igomero@mpspride.org | MPS |
| Rebecca Good | rgood@relay.edu | MPOC |
| Kathleen Greider | greiderk@fpsct.org | FPSCT |
| Jan Hochadel | jhochadel@afct.org | AFCT |
| Carolyn Kielma | carolynkielma@bristolk12.org | TOY |
| Glen Lungarini | glungarini@casciac.org | CASCIAC |
| Shannon Marimón | shannon.marimon@readyct.org | ReadyCT |
| Patrice McCarthy | pmccarthy@cabe.org | CABE |
| Catherine/Katie O’Callaghan | ocallaghanc@wcsu.edu | WCSU |
| Fran Rabinowitz | frabinowitz@capss.org | CAPSS |
| Jennifer Rodriquez | jprodriguez@npsct.org | NPS |
| Katherine/Kate Roe | roek@wcsu.edu | AACTE |
| Paula Talty | taltypam@ccsu.edu | CCSU |
| Kelli-Marie Vallieres | kelli-marie.vallieres@ct.gov | OWS |
| Jennifer Widness | widnessj@theccic.org | CCIC |
Connecticut State Department of Education Participants
| Chief Talent Officer Shuana Tucker | shuana.tucker@ct.gov |
| Nancy Velez | nancy.velez@ct.gov |
| Charles Kenyon | charles.kenyon@ct.gov |
| Deputy Commissioner Sinthia Sone-Moyano | sinthia.sone-moyano@ct.gov |
| Lynne Thibault | lynne.thibault@ct.gov |
| Carla Ghostlaw | carla.ghostlaw@ct.gov |
| Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker | charlene.russell-tucker@ct.gov |
| Julianne Frost | julianne.frost@ct.gov |