1. Cross-Institutional Collaboration for Sustainability
South Dakota
Cross-State Convening June 2017
H325A120003

2. Session Goals
Participants will leave the session with strategies to mitigate typical barriers to collaborative efforts, within or across institutions.
We will create a summary document of generated strategies

3. Add picture of SD badlands---example of the challenges posed by difficult terrain but well worth the effort because of the beautiful results????

4. Engaging Question
What are typical barriers to collaborative efforts within & across institutions?
Within a department
Between departments
Across institutions
Participants will discuss in small groups then share-out. Facilitator will chart responses to refer to later in the session as ways to mitigate the challenges are addressed.

5. Within Institution Collaboration
Cheryl Wold
Northern State University
Aberdeen, South Dakota

6. Northern State University Cheryl Wold
A team of university faculty worked together to incorporate more content on working with SWDs in all education courses. Faculty members collaborated with state department of education personnel and faculty at other IHEs. The faculty members identified the features of effective instruction that all teachers should have to work with students with diverse needs especially students with disabilities. Course syllabi were reviewed to identify appropriate courses for the inclusion of the effective features of instruction.

7. Blueprint Goals: Develop new courses for graduate programs
Curriculum mapping of literacy courses
Revise and promote the blind and visually impaired endorsement
Review and revise the teacher candidate final evaluation
Create a first-year teacher mentoring program

8. The Process
Faculty:
attended state-wide meetings, participated in numerous conference calls, and the Cross-state Convening to gain information about CEEDAR
met locally to develop and implement the university blueprint
attended the mentoring training in another state and information was used to implement two mentor training workshops and an online class

9. Successes
Features of Effective Instruction were added to 4 undergraduate courses (ELED 440, EDFN 455, SEED 400, SEED 450)
Developed Special Education Law for School Administrators course for the Leadership and Administration program
Developed special education course for the Teaching and Learning graduate program
Developed Classroom Literacy Concepts course for the Teaching and Learning graduate program
Developed a first-year teacher mentoring program
Conducted literacy research

10. Challenges
Our mentoring program was launched prior to the state-wide mentoring initiative
Seeking approval from other universities to add new or common courses was an obstacle
Marketing the Blind and Visual Endorsement continues to be a challenge

11. Alignment
All of our projects were aligned with the state and national CEEDAR goals.

12. Cross-Institutional Collaboration

13. Augustana University Laurie Daily
Blueprint Goals:
Broad SD Goal: Increase the ability of teachers and teacher candidates to [successfully/inclusively] address the needs of all learners through education, assessment, and accountability.
Specific Target: Increased literacy rates for students with disabilities in grades 4-12

14. Overview
Focus on developing professional development opportunities for in-service teachers
PD modules on 4 Features of Effective Instruction agreed upon by the SLT to be included in coursework
CEEDAR IHEs assisted with the design and development work
Partnered with Continuing Education to include free, online, on-demand workshops available to teachers throughout SD for the academic/fiscal year
Available forever on the CEEDAR website:

15. Cross-Institution Collaboration: Educator Preparation & Effective Instruction
Process:
Changing Tactics-Working with Learner’s Edge, one of our Continuing Education Partners
CEEDAR Statewide Planning Meeting-Reps from 3 other CEEDAR IHEs, SD DOE, and Local School District-Discussion of content, process, and product
Continuing Education credits approved

16. Features of Effective Instruction
Selected by SLT
Incorporated into courses
Development, Design, and Launch of Online Workshops (8-9 month process)

17. Augustana University Dr. Kathleen Cook and Dr. Laurie Daily

18. Link to Workshops
Learners Edge Website
Learners Edge login page

19. Your Experience
Work with someone from a different state. You may reflect on experiences other than CEEDAR.
Describe the most positive and powerful experience you have had in either leading or participating in a cross institutional effort.

20. How did you Support the cross institutional collaboration?
Mitigate potential barriers?
10 minutes
recorder

21. Collaborations through CEEDAR
Successes and challenges?
Ideas for a do-over?
Strategies to support more effective partnerships?
Efforts at Collaboration
Successes
Challenges
Do-over strategies
Divide into groups of 4-6 to discuss the first question for about minutes. Have a recorder capture information about specific strategies employed to facilitate collaborative efforts.
Fill out the organizer.

22. Discussion Leading Future Efforts

23. Closing Connections
Take 5 minutes to write what you want to be sure to share with your team about improving future collaborative efforts.
Make a list of key people who could support these efforts.

24. Thank you for… Sharing your great ideas
Supporting collaborative efforts
Together we can be powerfully effective in improving the lives of kids!

25. This is sustainability!

26. Let’s Stay in Touch! Laurie Daily, Augustana University
Cheryl Wold, Northern State University
Marty Hougen, CEEDAR –