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communicatorcommunicatorPresident:
Frank J. Servedio (AR)ViVice President:D.T. Magee (IA)
Regional Directors: Northeast
Marta Cambra (VT) Southern
Anne Marie Fenton (GA) Central
Scott Myers (KS) Western
Elizabeth Keller (MT)
Committee Chairs: Interstate Agreement
vacant Professional Practice
Marian Lambeth (FL)Professional Prepararion &Continuing Development
Nancy Pugliese (CT)Technology
vacant
Special Committee Chairs:Associate Member:
Meredith Curley, University of Phoenix
PESBA: Victoria Chamberlain (OR)
Staff:Executive Director
Phillip Rogers, Ed.D.Development Coordinator
Mike CarrAttorney
Carolyn Angelo (PA)Conference Coordinator
Linda Stowers
Executive Board 2013-2014
Presidents MessageGreetings Colleagues.
This month I am happy to report on the status of some of NASDTEC’s activities. We were pleased to see that many of you (101) attended the Professional Practices Institute (PPI) in October. If you did not attend, know that it was a very successful endeavor with outstanding speakers and a significant amount of interaction among the participants. We always come away from PPI with valuable information and ideas. Know also that the sessions of the 2013 PPI were recorded and are now uploaded and available in the NASDTEC Online Community (OC) as part of the Encore Series (under the Events tab on the main menu.) I have already gone back twice myself and listened to sessions and viewed the PowerPoints that are available. This is a great resource and you should share it with your colleagues.
The project to update the KnowledgeBase is progressing well. There is a draft page with Topical Tables that can be found on the OC under Resources.
There is another project underway, which is to identify a Model Ethics Framework that could be useful on a national level. The steering committee has recently conducted conference calls and is planning a face-to-face meeting in February with national groups who might share an interest in this work.Another project group is working on developing an interstate system to help states and educator preparation providers within those states locate program completers who may be certified and/or employed in states other than their home preparation states. States currently participating in the pilot are GA, FL, and KY. NASDTEC is also designing a project which will result in webinars being produced and posted on the OC. We are expecting to produce and offer at least three webinars over the next 12 months.
Coming very soon (February 5-7, 2014) is the first annual Ted Andrews Winter Symposium. We are very excited about the content and are looking forward to an extremely positive experience. This year’s theme is “What is a Learner-Ready Teacher? Defining the Vision among IHEs, State Agencies and Local Districts”. The meeting will convene in Newport Beach, CA. Thus far 88 folks are registered.
The annual conference planning committee is finalizing the agenda and confirming speakers for the 86th NASDTEC Annual Conference, which will be held at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown Hotel on June 8 – 10, 2014. We are hoping to see you all there.
As you can see NASDTEC is very busy and hard at work conducting the business that helps to make all our jobs more effective. I thank the members of all these committees who work tirelessly to make our world that much better. More information on these and other activities will be available at the winter symposium and at the annual conference. I look forward to seeing you in February and/or June.
January 2014
2014 Annual NASDTEC Conference Plans are Finalized Plans for the 2014 NASDTEC Annual Conference “Leading Change: Show Me!” are nearly complete, with the conference
committee bringing together an exciting mix of nationally-known keynote speakers with a variety of general sessions of special
interest to NASDTEC members, along with concurrent sessions featuring NASDTEC members.
This year’s conference is set for June 8-10 in Kansas City, Missouri at the Marriott Downtown Hotel. The agenda and registra-
tion information will be available at www.nasdtec.net in early March, and already confirmed as keynote speakers are Frederick M.
(Rick) Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies for the American Enterprise Institute, and PBS News Hour commentator John Mer-
row, President of Learning Matters.
This year’s Conference Planning Committee is comprised of Chairperson D. T. Magee (IA), along with NASDTEC President
Frank Servedio (AR), Brian Devine (MA), Susan Helbert (KS), Margery Tanner (MO), and Katherine Bassett, executive director of The
National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY). The group began
working on the planning process last August and used past attendee feedback
to plan a conference which will feature topics requested by NASDTEC members.
The sessions promise to provide information, new ideas, camaraderie, and pro-
voke thought among attendees.
Already confirmed as Founding Sponsors for the event are Educational
Testing Service and Evaluation Systems Group of Pearson, who will be sponsoring
the keynote speakers as well as other meals and events during the three-day con-
ference.
Look for more information in March and mark your
calendars now for the only national conference designed
for those who work with teacher certification, June 8-10 in
Kansas City!
Can’t Make the Conference…Check out the NASDTEC Encore Series
The sessions of the 2013 PPI in Boise, ID were recorded and are now included as part of the NASDTEC
Encore Series (under the Events tab on the main menu). The sessions are available for all NASDTEC
members through the OC. You will find a link for the PowerPoint slides and a link for the recorded
session. This is a great value for those in each office unable to attend the PPI.
Retooling of the NASDTEC KnowledgeBase
Over the last year the NASDTEC Executive Board has been exploring ways to retool the NASDTEC
KnowledgeBase so it incorporates 21st century technology to be more compact, agile, and useful.
Using the suggestions of our jurisdictions collected through an online survey, we have developed a
draft page and relocated the topical tables. The tables are now part of additional resources that
make use of the online resources that are maintained by jurisdictions.
To view the new KB page log in to the OC and use the main menu: Resources > KnowledgeBase >
Topical Tables.
NASDTEC Online Community (OC)
Updates to the OC this month include:
1. Current number of registered members on the OC: 655
2. On average 500 members log in to the NASDTEC Online
Community each month
Model Code of Educator Ethics Project
This absence of a defined but transferable framework of professional responsibility for educators is
a detriment to the profession and must be remedied. Peer review is a keystone in professional reg-
ulation, but, absent a central licensing body and uniform standards of conduct for all educators,
the ability of the profession to effectively and consistently regulate itself is diminished. As a national
leader in standards for educator preparation, certification and regulation, NASDTEC has convened
a committee to develop, adopt and distribute a framework that clearly defines the ethical and
professional obligations of educators and that may serve as a model code of conduct for educa-
tors. This framework or model will define society’s expectations of professional educators yet be
malleable enough to be adapted and enforced by any jurisdiction.
By establishing a Framework of Professional Ethics Guidance for Educators, NASDTEC will provide a
model of best practice which jurisdictions can adopt or adapt to help ensure states, EPPs, and LEAs
are effectively equipping educators in ethical understanding and decision making so as not to vio-
late the boundaries of professional practice. This critical work will lead to a more intentional em-
phasis, at national, state, and local levels, being placed on ethics and ethical preparation. Ulti-
mately, not only will ethical violations in education be reduced, children will be safer in classrooms.
The Executive Board wishes to express its gratitude to Educational Testing Service and the University of Phoenix for
supporting the Model Code of Ethics Project.
The NASDTEC Executive Board is dedi-
cated to bringing additional value to
your NASDTEC membership. Nowhere is this more evident than through the im-
plementation of the NASDTEC Online Community (OC).
The OC has permitted us to share survey results, circulate white papers and re-
ports, automate registration for conferences, engage more people in
NASDTEC's interest groups, disseminate conference materials, provide a shared
portal for the KnowledgeBase, ensure a central depository for the Interstate
Agreement, and greatly expand our ability to communicate with our peers in
other jurisdictions.
The greatest value the OC brings to your membership, however, is the ability to
share all these resources with your col-
leagues. Your organization’s membership
permits up to 25 of your colleagues to estab-
lish accounts on the OC under the organiza-
tion’s master account…at no additional
cost.
Here is all they have to do:
Go to this URL: www.nasdtec.net
Click on "Register” in the top right-hand side of the page
Provide the required contact information…that’s it.
We will connect them to your account and they will immediately begin to enjoy the
benefits of the NASDTEC OC.
If you have any questions, please send me an email at philrogers@nasdtec.com.
Cybertraps for Educators Webinars
Many jurisdictions have noticed an increase of misconduct
cases related to educators misusing social media. It is always
tragic when an educator (sometimes unknowingly) steps
across lines of appropriateness and a child is harmed and a
career is ruined. Even more tragic is when the internet is used
as a predatory tool to seduce children. In both cases the
right information for teachers, administrators, and parents can
make an important difference.
The Executive Board is pleased to announce that NASDTEC
has partnered with Frederick S. Lane to conduct webinars
that focus on the dangers of misusing social media. Mr. Lane
is a nationally-recognized expert on privacy and the impact
of emerging technologies on society. He is an author, attor-
ney, educational consultant, expert witness, and lecturer who
has spoken to colleges, universities, and school districts
around the country on a variety of issues, including student
safety, electronic misbehavior, and digital privacy. Mr. Lane
has written seven books, including most recently Cybertraps
for the Young and American Privacy: The 400-Year History of
Our Most Contested Right. During the course of his writing ca-
reer, he has appeared as a guest on a variety of national me-
dia programs, including Comedy Central's The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart; ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America
Weekend; CBS's 60 Minutes and Sunday Morning with Charles
Osgood; NBC's Today Show and Weekend Today; as well as
numerous local and national radio programs. He is currently
working on his next book, entitled Cybertraps for Educators.
Pilot Project: Tracking Educators Who Left Your Jurisdiction
A new Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) standard requires educator preparation pro-
gram providers (EPPs) to demonstrate the impact of their graduates on P-12 student learning and to determine the
satisfaction of their graduates with the preparation they received. With major support from the Georgia Profession-
al Standards Commission, three jurisdictions in the NASDTEC Southern Region are currently engaged in a pilot pro-
ject whose outcome will be a network to help jurisdictions and educator preparation providers within those jurisdic-
tions locate program completers who may be certified and/or employed in other states besides their “home prep-
aration states.”
The resulting system could also validate credentials, employment, and preparation records among states for
teachers prepared both in traditional programs and non-traditional programs. Assistance in locating program
completers will be a valuable asset as EPPs collect and analyze data to improve their programs and to meet ac-
creditation standards. Validation of credentials and related information is valuable in each state’s credentialing
process.
Due to the leadership of our colleagues at the Georgia Professional Standards Commission particularly, Tom Hall,
Chuck McCampbell, Anne Marie Fenton and Cyndy Stephens, this project is currently in a pilot phase with three
southern jurisdictions.
Stay tuned…
Information regarding the Cybertrap Webinars
will be available on the NASDTEC OC by
March 31st.
Annual Conferences
Professional Practices Institute
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
2014 18th Professional Practices Institute
October 28th-30th
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport Marriott
2015 19th Professional Practices Institute
October 14th-16th
Atlanta, Georgia
The Grand Hyatt Buckhead
2015 87th Annual NASDTEC Conference
June 7th-9th
Portland, Oregon
Hilton