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Using WEAC Quality School Grants, the 14 districts are sorting through the red tape to make the law more understandable. They'll also develop strategic plans for the implementation of PI 34 that can be borrowed and adapted by other districts.
For example, the Evansville Education Association received $4,000, and will use the money to gather a small group for three days during the summer break.
The group of 10 to 12 will include board members, administrators, and teachers who represent the district's strategic planning, mentoring and staff development groups, and EEA bargaining team members.
They'll spend the time examining philosophies, assessing the district's current efforts to promote professional development and identifying goals and concerns, EEA President Bill Hartje said. "From this, we will design a format that truly attempts to 'shift the paradigm' in terms of the way that we do the business of professional growth."
By the conclusion of the meetings, Hartje said he hopes the group will prepare a document that explains and provides clarification of the PI 34 rules. That document may also give an overview of Wisconsin's Professional Development Plan (PDP), a critical component of the new law. "We will strive to have a system that is flexible, meaningful, and research-based," Hartje wrote in his proposal. "As well as one that can be transferable to other districts of various sizes."
PI 34 became law in early 2000, and moves the state to a three-tiered system of teacher licensure based on demonstrated competence. Under the law, educators will earn licensure by demonstrating the knowledge, skills and dispositions identified in the 10 Wisconsin Teacher Standards.
Teachers who currently hold a renewable license that expires between July 1, 2000, and June 30, 2008, will renew their licenses under present rules. College students who began their educator training in the fall of 2000 or after will be the first group issued Initial Educator Licenses upon their graduation, presumably in May 2004.
For more information about PI 34, visit OnWEAC's Teacher
Licensure resource page, located in the Teaching & Learning area.
The grant recipients are:
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Association President
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Eau Claire
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Fred Poss
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Jo Ellen Burke
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Beaver Dam
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Jackie Burke
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Gordy Aschebrook
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Fond du Lac
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Carolyn Keener
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Hedy Eischeid
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Greendale
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Michael Zeller
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John Bly
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South Milwaukee
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Rita Olson
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Eric Van Ert
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WCEA
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Matt Friedl
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Paul Hambleton
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Oshkosh
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John Sprangers
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Len Herricks
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Evansville HS
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Bill Hartje
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Bill Hartije
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SWEA
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Suzanne Kahl
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Lynette Stansfield
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Wisconsin Rapids
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Pam Hill
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Larry Reinke
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Falls Creek
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Pat Kardin
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Mary Hummel
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Menomonee Falls
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Nancy Van Caster
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Debbie Dillman
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West Bend
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Therese Motzkus
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Jeff Wickland
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Posted April 3, 2003