Commitment to Standards-Based
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Southwest Plains Regional Service Center delivers "professional learning...innovative solutions." All training, consulting, and instructional resource development is research-based best practice. To this end, the team at SWPRSC is dedicated to ensuring continual alignment with the following standards for (1) professional learning; (2) leadership and supervision; and (3) curriculum and instruction.
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Learning Forward & Kansas-Learning Forward Professional Learning Standards"Standards for Professional Learning outline the characteristics of professional learning that lead to effective teaching practices, supportive leadership, and improved student results. Learning Forward is the only association focused solely on the most critical lever in improving schools - building the knowledge and skills of educators." (www.LearningForward.org)
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Rose StandardsThe Rose Capacities (sometimes referred to as "Rose Standards") were cited in a Kansas Supreme Court Case (March, 2014 - Gannon v State of Kansas) surrounding a school finance decision. The Court decided that these are the standards for determining the level of suitable funding for public schools in Kansas and will be used as the test when deciding if the state is meeting its constitutional requirement to fund public education (www.kasb.org).
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Model Principal Supervisor Professional Standards |
An expanding base of knowledge from research and practice shows that educational leaders exert influence on student achievement by creating conditions conducive to each student's learning. They relentlessly develop and support teachers, effectively allocate resources, construct organizational policies and systems, and engage in other deep and meaningful work outside of the classroom that has a powerful impact on what happens inside it. (Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 2015, p.1)
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Higher Education Division |
In order to more effectively service its partners in higher education and to collaborate PK-20, SWPRSC opened a Higher Education Division in Fall 2014. To this end, the following standards serve as 'curb, ruler, and mirror' for all professional learning and programming delivered to 2-year and 4-year institutions, community colleges, and professional-technical institutes.
KSDE Teacher Education Program StandardsNEW Licensure Program Standards adopted by the Kansas State Board of Education. Adopted January 13, 2015.
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InTASC StandardsThe Council of Chief State School Officers (CSS), through its Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC), is pleased to offer this set of model core teaching standards that outline what teachers should know and be able to do, in order to ensure every K-12 student reaches the goal of being able to enter college or the workforce in today's world. These standards outline the common principles and foundations of teaching practice that cut across all subject areas and grade levels and that are necessary to improve student achievement (www.ccsso.org).
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CAEP Standards
The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) adopted a structure for standards that begins with three areas of teacher preparation. These research-based factors are "likely to have the strongest effects" on outcomes for students: content knowledge; field experience; and the quality of teacher candidates.
The ultimate goal of educator preparation is the impact of program completers on P-12 student learning and development, as framed in the fourth standard. That impact can be demonstrated both directly through multiple measures and indirectly by the satisfaction of the completers and their employers.
The ultimate goal of educator preparation is the impact of program completers on P-12 student learning and development, as framed in the fourth standard. That impact can be demonstrated both directly through multiple measures and indirectly by the satisfaction of the completers and their employers.