[Ccade] Concerns about the CPS Contract

[Gillette, Maureen]

Dear Anne,
Thanks for your e-mail.  I appreciate you sending the concerns of CADST
along.  We did receive them earlier.  I believe that we met at the LiveText
conference a few years ago.  I have attached a draft letter that the deans
are writing to CPS related to issues with the proposed contract.  The NIEU
attorney is attempting to reach the CPS lawyer (who was out last week)
today to get more time to review the contract.  In some instances, it does
not appear that we are reading the contract in the same manner but
regardless, they need clarification.

I am not sure what you mean when you say that CADST is considered "an arm"
of CCADE.  You may know that several years ago, there were some tensions
between CCADE and CADST because some members of CADST were speaking to CPS
officials without their respective deans being in the loop. This caused
some letters to go back and forth to clarify the role of CADS.  I
appreciate your writing to me as it is imperative that the deans know the
views of CADST while working with CPS on major issues.  Hopefully, we can
work collaboratively on issues of concern and on sharing information.  If
you like, I can pool the CCADE group about having a member of CADST come to
the CCADE meeting once a semester to report on CADST work and to hear about
any issues that are important to the group.

If you would like to provide feedback on the deans' letter.  Please feel
free.  I hope to update the deans today about the situation with the
contract.

Sincerely,
Maureen


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Becker, Anne <abecker at colum.edu> wrote:

>  Dear Dr. Gillette,
> I will be the chair of the CADST group for the upcoming school year.
> Since the CPS contract was sent out I have been bombarded with concerns
> about this contract and the impact it will have on our teacher candidates
> from  directors of the colleges and universities in our group.  The CADST
> group, Chicago Area Directors of Student Teaching, is considered an arm of
> the CCADE group and I was hoping the executive committee could meet with
> you or chat about these concerns.  I asked Kate Liston from DePaul to
> summarize some of the concerns that we have heard from the directors of
> student teaching and I thought I would share them with you.
>
> In partnership with you we need to get clarification on the following:
>
>
>
> ·         The REACH Evaluation system.  We need to see it to prepare our
> students and to know how it is going to be used for them.  Is this another
> Teacher FIT Inventory?
>
>
>
> ·         How is CPS going to determine eligible schools and eligible
> cooperating teachers for student teacher placements?  How could they
> possibly do that?  They will take over our positions?
>
>
>
> ·         What do they mean by providing them with the cooperating/mentor
> teacher selection process?
>
>
>
> ·         What information do they want regarding the current monetary
> and/or tuition stipends?
>
>
>
> ·         What do they mean by “Participating Student Teacher Evaluation
> will align with the CPS Framework for Teaching and the REACH evaluation
> system utilized for CPS teachers???
>
>
>
> ·         What is the Academic Progress Assessment template that should
> align with the CPS Framework for Teaching and the REACH Evaluation system?
> How can universities sign this agreement when no examples of these things
> are given or explained?
>
>
>
> ·         Who is identifying qualified cooperating teachers for each
> student teacher?  Is that something the Talent Office will do or the
> principals?
>
>
>
> ·         Changes in CPS Cooperating Teacher Assignments ~ we need to
> notify Leslie if there is a change in Cooperating Teacher?  Don’t we do
> that on the CPS spreadsheet we complete each quarter or is this something
> different?
>
>
>
> ·         The type and quantity of direct education services to be
> provided by Participating Student Teacher to CPS students shall be
> discussed by the Principal of the CPS School and the University Liaison,
> but the decision of the Principal for the CPS School shall be final.  Does
> this meant if a teacher does not want the student teacher to begin student
> teaching to begin student teaching the first week, but to wait until the 5
> th week, that would be okay?  This will have a SIGNIFICANT impact on
> edTPA.
>
>
>
> ·         Are CPS teachers being informed about edTPA?  Are the schools
> being informed that they need to comply with the edTPA requirements, that
> they are an Illinois State Board of Education requirement, not a
> requirement of individual universities?
>
>
>
> ·         The CPS Cooperating Teacher should retain copies of the
> completed University Evaluation forms.  Copies of these evaluations may be
> requested by the CS Student Teacher Program Coordinator from time to time ~
> what does this mean?  Is this for the REACH Evaluation System?
>
> P
>
>
>  Please let me know how we can be of assistance to the deans to resolve
> this situation, and feel free to contact me.  My cell: 630-364-8918
> Many thanks,
> Anne
>
>   Anne L. Becker, Ed.D.
> Associate Professor
> Director of Art Education
> Education Department
> Columbia College Chicago
> 600 S. Michigan Ave.
> Chicago, IL. 60605
> President
> Illinois Art Education Association
> abecker at colum.edu
> 312-369-8144
>



-- 
*Maureen Gillette*, Dean

College of Education
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625
Phone: (773) 442-5500
Fax: (773) 442-5510


www.neiu.edu
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