Critical Issues Archive: February 2010
Download all Critical Issues session descriptions as published in the Conference Booklet
The table below provides an alphabetical listing of session titles for which handouts and/or PowerPoints are available for download.
| Building a Teacher Mentor Stakeholder Team | Marilyn Smith, Assistant Director of Adams/Pike Regional Office of Ed. Teacher Mentor, Quincy Public Schools / Adams-Pike Regional Office of Education; Jan Stanley, Director, Adams/Pike Regional office of ed. Teacher Mentor Program; Michelle Eberlin, QFT Union President, QPS Teacher Mentor Project |
| Building an Induction Program Website | Andrea Dombrowski, Teacher Leader for the Teacher Mentor Program, School District U-46; Lindsey Helm, District Mentor, Springfield Public School District 186; Mike Hurst, Induction/Mentor Coordinator, School District 148; Lil Husbands, Mentor Leadership Team, School District148; Lara Hebert, ISBE Funded Induction Programs Co-coordinator, INTC |
| Champaign Unit 4 Community Schools' Evolving Induction Program | Polly Hill, Mentor Coordinator; Leslie Knicl, Mentor Coordinator; Greg Kneller, Mentor Coordinator |
| Champaign Unit 4 Minority Teacher Retention | Doretha Simmons, Director of Human Resources, Champaign Unit 4 Schools; Izona Burgess, Minority Teacher Retention Advisory Committee Member, CUSD 4 Second Year Mentor Coordinator; Kendra Bonam, Minority Teacher Retention Advisory Committee Member, CUSD 4 Elementary Teacher |
| Conducting Classroom Observation for Sustained Beginning Teacher Growth | Gretchen Weber, Senior Associate, Learning Point Associates |
| Creating a Team of District Leaders | Mary Francis, Mentoring Program Director, Lee/Ogle ROE #47; Sheila Burns, Consultant & Mentoring Program Director, Rock Island ROE #49 |
| Exemplary Practices of an Urban Network Mentor Program | Barbara Rieckhoff, Asst. Professor, DePaul University; Nancy Meskel Feely, Mentor; Maryrose Cicchetti, Mentor; Sara Duffy, Mentor; Sharon Damore, Asst. Professor |
| From Pre-service Preparation to the First Years of Teaching in High-Need Schools | Jan Fitzsimmons, Director, Center for Success in High-Need Schools, Associated Colleges of Illinois; Cindy Diehl Yang, Executive Vice President, Associated Colleges of Illinois; Anne Deeter, Center Evaluation Consultant, Associated Colleges of Illinois |
| Good Google! | Jeff Kohmstedt and Lara Hebert, Illinois New Teacher Collaborative |
| Induction Hybrid - 21st Century Technologies Meeting New Teacher Needs | Joe B Boehle, Lead Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center; Stacy Sniegowski, Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center; Ned Brooks, Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center |
| Mentor Selection | Rochelle Bryant, Lead Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center; Tamiko Clark, Lead Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center; Chris Twomey, Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center |
| No Teacher Left Behind: Induction and Mentoring Programs in Rural Schools | Elizabeth Wilkins, Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University |
| Oodles of Moodle | Jacinda Crawmer, Lead Mentor, Urbana School District #116-District; Fran Etter, Ph.D., Mentoring Program Coordinator/Spanish Teacher, Belleville West High School; Monica Evans, Mentoring Program Co-Coordinator/Math Teacher, Belleville East High School; Marci Reeves, Mentoring Program Co-Coordinator/English Teacher, Belleville East High School; Kristin Paulsgrove, New Teacher Induction & Mentoring Coordinator, Kishwaukee Intermediate Delivery System (KIDS), Boone/Winnebago ROE; Bernadette Laumann, Lecturer, UIUC Department of Special Education; Lara Hebert, ISBE Funded Induction Programs Co-coordinator, INTC |
| Preparing Urban Teachers to Close the Achievement Gap in the New Teacher Summer Academy | Sharon Grady, Lead Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center; Amy Treadwell, Lead Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center; Dan Ward, Induction Coach, Chicago New Teacher Center |
| Supporting New Teachers in Illinois Charter Schools | Lisa Vahey, Consultant |
| TIMSweb -- Online Documentation System | Rosalie Gardner, Curriculum Specialist, Monroe-Randolph ROE 45; Cindy Callahan |
| Using NBCTS to Support Second-Year Teachers | Carole Einhorn, New Teacher Induction Facilitator, CCSD 15 |
| Years One to Five: Comparative Results from the Illinois Teacher Graduate Assessment, 2005-2009 | Stephen Lucas, Assistant Professor and Director, Eastern Illinois University/Illinois Association of Deans of Public Colleges of Education |