Educational Leadership and Administration Program

New Cohort Orientation-Fall 2020

• ✧ Welcome
• ✧ Agenda & Outcome Review
• ✧ Faculty Introduction
• ✧ Program Overview
• ✧ Information
  • a. Cohort Policies & Expectations
  • b. Scholarly Writing
  • c. Masters Degree Research Project (Semester 3)
• ✧ Memo of Understanding/PASC Mentors
• ✧ Closure

Vision

Educational Leadership and Administration graduates will become courageous transformational leaders advocating for equity and social justice from an asset-based frame who execute actions that have a profound positive impact on the lives of children, educators, and the community for K-12 throughout California.

Orientation Outcomes

1. Establish focus and share resources.
2. Examine and communicate Program Policies, Program & State Expectations.
3. Develop knowledge and skill in the use of program tools and resources: Canvas, texts, CalAPA, APA, Graduate Writing Studio.

Fresno State…More Than Just a Credential or Degree

Please review this brief welcome video from Dean James Marshall.

The Division of Research and Graduate Studies has many valuable resources and the answers to many of your questions.

Take a moment and review all of the embedded materials in this slide.

Faculty Introductions

Why We Are Here?

In a study conducted by the Wallace Foundation researchers stated, “To date we have not found a single case of a school improving its student achievement record in the absence of talented leadership.” Moreover, they noted that effective leadership is second in importance only to effective teaching among the many school variables that impact student achievement.

Wallace Foundation
Districts Matter: Cultivating the Principals Urban Schools Need

Educational Leadership and Administration Program

PROGRAM…

• ✧ Information
• ✧ Policies
• ✧ Sequence
• ✧ Expectations

Administrative Services Credential Program Standards

(updated 2016)

Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) refined and revised the standards used to guide preliminary and clear administrative licensure processes and requirements to ensure that they reflect current research about effective leadership in schools while keeping pace with the highly complex and diverse needs of California schools and the children served by them.

INFO

PRELIMINARY

Administrative Services Credential

THIS Program

Primary Focus

To prepare future leaders for their initial administrative position, with special emphasis on preparation for position of site administrator, or principal, for a specific school site.

CLEAR

Administrative Services Credential

AFTER You Finish This Program & Secure an Administrative Position

• Focused on job-embedded, real-life experiences of educational leaders.
• Coaching-based professional induction process contextualized for whatever job the administrator currently holds while continuing to develop candidates for future leadership positions.

INFO

Fresno State Program Information

3 Semester Integrated Program:
Masters Degree & Preliminary
Administrative Services Credential

• 31 semester units

Preliminary Administrative Services
Credential only if Masters already

• 24 semester units

INFO

FRESNO STATE 3 SEMESTER PASC/MA PROGRAM

Information, Policies, and Expectations

Pages 9-14 in Student Handbook

• ✧ Fresno State Email Account @mail.fresnostate.edu
• ✧ Canvas https://fresnostate.edu/academics/canvas/
• ✧ Face-to-Face and online Hours + Alternative Hours for Fieldwork Experiences
• ✧ Class Meeting Structure – Learning Laboratories:
  • Attendance
  • Cohort Norms

POLICY

Page 15 in Student Handbook

CalAPA Structure: Three Leadership Cycles

• Leadership Cycle 1: Analyzing Data to Inform School Improvement and Promote Equity

  SPRING 2021

• Leadership Cycle 2: Facilitating Communities of Practice

  FALL 2020
  REGISTER ASAP for LC2!

• Leadership Cycle 3: Supporting Teacher Growth

  FALL 2021

• Investigate
• Plan
• Act
• Reflect

EXPECTATIONS

http://www.ctcexams.nesinc.com/

Program Expectations-Use of Tools

• ✧ Canvas
  https://community.canvaslms.com/videos/1124-canvas-overview-students
• ✧ APA
  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html
• ✧ Graduate Writing Studio
  http://www.fresnostate.edu/academics/gradstudies/graduatewritingstudio.html
• ✧ CalAPA
  https://www.ctcexams.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/CalAPA_TestPage.html
• ✧ Video Taping & Upload for CalAPA
  http://www.ctcexams.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/CalAPA_PrepMaterials.html

Program Expectations-Common Course Traits

Pages 9-14 in student handbook

Educational Leadership P12 Vision

Educational Leadership and Administration graduates will become courageous transformational leaders advocating for equity and social justice from an asset-based frame who execute actions that have a profound positive impact on the lives of children, educators, and the community for K-12 throughout California.

• ✧ Graduate Writing Competency
• ✧ Competency Tasks/Fieldwork Expectations
• ✧ Grading
• ✧ PASC Mentors
• ✧ APA Writing Style

Field Experience

All candidates participate in field experience - application of theoretical concepts in authentic settings.

Field experiences – variety, diverse and realistic settings both in the day-to-day functions of administrators and policy implementation

Cohort Designated Settings, Candidates’ Site Settings, and District Settings.

EXPECTATIONS

Field Mentors

In a collaborative partnership between Fresno State’s PASC program and Local Education Agencies/district leadership, the in-the-field administrator mentor (PASC Field Mentor) provides guidance, assistance, and feedback regarding the work of the candidate in the administrative preparation program.

Responsibility of the Candidate

• Establish a conversation date/time with approved PASC Field Mentor within one week after completion of courses: EAD 272, EAD 263, & EAD 262, and during EAD 269 (final course).
• Engage in a conversation with PASC Field Mentor within one week after the completion of each set of courses (EAD 261 & EAD 272), (EAD 276 & EAD 263), (EAD 274 & EAD 262) and final course (EAD 269), and share key learnings and content knowledge and skills developed as a result of active participation and work completed in the set of courses.
• Produce a written Summary of the Conversation and Reflection (real world connections, application to the role of the principal, new learning perspectives, prompted to learn more about – need, and feedback and guidance of greatest value and why).
• Upload written Summary of the Conversation and Reflection by the instructor designated date to both the Course (EAD 276, EAD 274 or EAD 269).

EXPECTATIONS

EAD 261 – First Class Session

Fall 2020 On Campus Cohort

Monday, South Valley Cohort (COS/Fresno State Campus),
Tuesday, East Valley Cohort (Sanger/WAMS),
Instruction Begins August 24

4:30 – 10:00 p.m. + Field Work/Alternative Hours

PASC Field Mentor
Consideration Form
&
Memo of Understanding Regarding
Program Expectations

Dear Future Fresno State PASC Candidates

• ~ This is a mastery-based program.
• ~ The project/thesis will be the hardest thing you have ever done.
• ~ Assignments take longer than you think.
• ~ Prepare to work really hard and write more than you have ever written before.
• ~ Don’t procrastinate, turn assignments in on time, and start your assignments early.
• ~ Work with your professors because they want you to succeed and will help support you through this program.
• ~ You can do this. Kick fear to the curb.
• ~ If you think you’re not a leader, and you’re doing this just to learn, I promise that by the end of this program you will be more than prepared to take on the many challenges we will face as administrators.
• ~ Believe in yourself and lean on the members in your cohort as well as your professors. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. There are no dumb questions.

Welcome Bulldogs

Thank you for your attendance!

Please email your PASC mentor
documentation.

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