1. Embracing the Glass House: Using Data to
Shape Policy and Public Perception
AACTE Annual Meeting
February 18, 2012
M. Jayne Fleener, Dean
Michael J. Maher, Director of Professional Education
Malina K. Monaco, Director of Knowledge Management
Erin Thomas Horne, Asst. Director of Professional Education
North Carolina State University

3. Grand Challenges
of K-12 Education
1. Teacher Effectiveness & Teacher Preparation Program Effectiveness
• Improvement & Documentation
• Addressing the critics (NCTQ)
2. Utilize information, communication and collaboration technologies to enhance
teaching and learning
3. Select, prepare and support adaptive educational classroom and school leaders
4. Update the K-12 education workforce to
• address new internationally-benchmarked curriculum standards,
• employ new technologies and assessments,
• use data to customize teaching and learning,
• work with increasingly diverse student populations
5. Support schools in making the necessary transformations to prepare students for the
rapidly changing world of their futures
6. Utilize research and analyses to inform policy decisions

4. North Carolina’s Response
1. UNC Tomorrow – UNC System’s Coordinated
Response
2. Redesign of Teacher and School Administrator
Preparation Programs
3. Race to the Top
Teacher Effectiveness
IHE Report Cards
4. Governor’s Education Task Force Committees
Standards and Assessments
5. Teacher Effectiveness Research (UNC-GA, CIPP)
Stayers & Leavers
Portal Analyses (entry pathways)
Redefining Enrollment Projections

5. How the NC State College of Education
Engaged Stakeholders
Spring 2008 we convened a series of focus
groups which included:
Teachers
School Administrators
Community Members
Business Leaders
Parents
Teacher Education Faculty
Teacher Education Students
State Department of Public Instruction

6. Stakeholder Themes
During our focus groups we asked “What should teachers in
North Carolina know and be able to do in 2012 and beyond?”
“How can a pre-service teacher education program help them to
develop that set of knowledge, skills, and dispositions?”
What emerged:
1. Assessment 4. Field Experience
2. Collaboration 5. Globalization
3. Diversity 6. Technology

7. Developing Program Blueprints
Included Components:
Redesign Elements
Program Parameters
NC Professional Teaching
Standards
21st Century Skills
Curricular and Field Experience
Changes
Evidence Artifacts

8. Implementing the Blueprints

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10. Implementing the Parameters

11. Building the Glass House
Data Requests:
NCTQ
UNC-GA
Title II
NCDPI
NCATE/CAEP
KMA/OPE Offices
process request
Report and Raw Data housed
in the Dean’s Dashboard
Final Report distributed
and housed on the
accreditation webpage

12. Disruptive Innovations
and Changing Ecologies
• threats
• and opportunities
– … adaptive change
– … technology
– … collaborative cultures
– … internationalization
– … interdisciplinarity
– … creativity
– … scholarship
Christensen, C.M., & Eyring, H.J. (2011). The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from
the Inside Out. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
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13. Thank You!