2023-03-03 EPP Work Group Meeting Minutes

Participation:

The meeting was held on 2023-3-3, 1:00pm - 2:00pm CT via WebEx

Link to Meeting PPT

Agenda and Notes

1. Welcome
   1. EPP Care Package
      1. reminder to send in mailing address if member did not receive the package
   2. James O’Meara - new EPPWG Chairperson
      1. Great opportunity for practitioner/state to share voice
      2. Elevate inputs to the GAT - informed solutions
   3. Welcome new members who joined since the Summit
2. Updates
   1. Community Updates
      1. Texas updates
         1. EPP Dashboard - public release Insight to Impact dashboard on April 5th
            1. Encore Texas EPPs to attend
         2. Starting to get into phase 2 “Effective District Framework” to support district fora  district facing dashboard with data stored in EPDM model about their staff, to support them with talent management
      2. Holdsworth Center (Scott Lipton)
         1. Holdsworth Center working with MSDF to build model of dashboard for district talent management TPDM model
         2. Releasing for Beta testing
            1. Static data set testing
            2. Directory and leader profile
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         4. Phase 2 - Leadership forecast dashboard
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         8. Mark - This is really neat! I'd love to connect about what the backend / data flows look like for this work, as well as understanding your rollout.
         9. Scott - Yes, I will follow up with you and set up a time for us to plan
         10. James - Potential application of teacher vacancy? Educator Pathway portal?
      3. CSU (Paul)
         1. BMGF data project in CA for PK12 education policy
         2. Convening next week to demo CSU dashboard
         3. Excited about the TEA dashboard presented at the Summit
         4. CA working on longitudinal data system
      4. State concerns (James)
         1. Staffing shortage
         2. Educator Pathway Portal - Endorsement from district to state
         3. Maybe Educator Pathways Portal, given the variety of pre-service  and inservice advancement pathways
   2. Ed-Fi Updates
      1. Launched cohort for 2 use cases in the field that were piloted in 2021 (see PPT)
      2. Certification domain review
         1. Steven will reach out to certification subgroup
            1. James - Great topic ! the student I spoke of needed 6 certs to be employable .
         2. Preview release 7/31 of version 5.0 and ODS v 7.0, final release in November
      3. Focus
         1. Continue supporting EPDM adopters
            1. Scale effort by building capacity of others
            2. Ensure effective regional partnership - teacher vacancy component, human capital use cases
            3. Address sustainability barriers
3. Top Priorities in Our Educator Community
   1. Close teacher shortage gap (James) https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/tvtf-final-report.pdf
      1. Candidate preparation, what is the focus beyond the numbers, what data do we need to gauge the effectiveness, collective goals
      2. Mark
         1. Better understanding of vacancy, staffing
         2. Informative to know what data is available
      3. James
         1. Affordability - what does it mean for the candidate?
         2. Knowledge, number, and financial gap
         3. Data to inform policy makers - grants
         4. TSI to the teacher path fund
      4. Lindsey
         1. Data currently collected, residency model allows more choice routes
      5. Alicia
         1. Data visualization assist with bring action forward
      6. Mark
         1. Pathway interpretation
            1. Variable - local condition
      7. Paul
         1. Good data source for vacancy currently not available at state level
         2. Residency program - good data to confirm beginning teacher skill, increase diversity
            1. US DOE does not include as data collected for Title 2 report
            2. High standard for defining residency program in CA
               1. Co-teaching,
      8. Kevin
         1. Part of coalition
         2. Put a lot of data at the beginning, but hard to retain
         3. James - retain the trained , see page 20
            1. https://teachertaskforce.org/knowledge-hub/teacher-policy-development-guide-summary
         4. Who defines the data
         5. Mark - For re-enterers, we're actually doing research on that right now - who comes back, and when they come back, how long do they stay
         6. James - Shared understanding Shared Responsibility; Who are our pedagogical partners?
      9. Rebekah -As an EPP in California, I'd love to figure out how to get a collective voice in California to encourage CTC to allow us access to data they have by different racial/ethnic subgroups (e.g., performance on licensure exams at more than 5 year chunks, completer satisfaction survey)
4. Revisiting Our Goals and Focus Areas – Are these still, right? (see PPT)
   1. Member to provide feedback on how to refine these goals
      1. New focus area or refine old goals
   2. https://jamboard.google.com/d/17CvjmcayoOsitMRKrex9u68j8ZUuGAeRI51uhVtSCq4/viewer?f=0
5. Closing
   1. Tech Congress
      1. EPP sessions
         1. Get together with states
      2. Email Lindsey with suggestions

Next  meeting: 2023-07-12