Goals and Objectives
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Evaluation
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Area of Responsibility
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1. To support school reform by strengthening an existing network of schools
on the Navajo Nation which provide exemplary community based programs
for LEP students.
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1.1. Bilingual fellows, mentor teachers and non-project teachers from
consortium schools will participate in the Learn in Beauty Summer Institute
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Institute Evaluation Survey
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Summer Institute Director
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1.2 Cohorts of Bilingual Fellows will include participants from each
consortium site
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Enrollment
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Project Director
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1.3 Exemplary practice will be indetified and disseminated
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Assessment Survey
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Project Director
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2. To implement a curriculum aligned with state and national content
area standards which reflect the Diné Philosophy of Education
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Assessment Survey
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Project Director
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2.1. Bilingual fellows and mentor teachers will participate in developing
Navajo language and culture curriculum.
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Assessment Survey
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Project Director
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2.2. Community issues and values will be integrated into thematic units.
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Assessment Survey
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Project Director
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2.3. The Diné Learning Framework will serve as the foundation
for curriculum development.
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Assessment Survey
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Project Director
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3. To support new bilingual teachers in their first years of teaching.
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3.1. New bilingual teachers will work with a mentor teacher onsite.
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Assessment Survey
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3.2. The rate of teacher turnover will decline at each consortium site
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Personnel records
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District
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3.3. New bilingual teachers will demonstrate superior classroom performance.
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Teacher Evaluation Measure
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District
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3.4. The number of endorsed Navajo bilingual teachers will increase in
each consortium district
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Personnel records
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District
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3.5. The number of teachers holding an M. Ed. will increase in each consortium
district
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Personnel records
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District
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3.6. Bilingual teachers will increase participation in professional organizations.
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Assessment Survey
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Project Director
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A yearly program review will be conducted by the program
director and will consist of a review of course evaluations, student performance
data, endorsements and graduate degrees obtained. This review will report on
the number of graduates placed in the instructional setting. This review will
identify successful components of the project; exemplary classroom practice,
Navajo language teaching materials, and will disseminate information about these
successful components to all project participants.
Program Context Indicators
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Milestone
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Area of Responsibility
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Bilingual Endorsements
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Fall 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
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Project Director
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M.Ed. Degrees
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Fall 2001, 2002, 20003
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Project Director
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BME Exit Surveys
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Summer 2001, 2002, 2003
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Project Director
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Assessment Survey
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May 1999-2003
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Mentor Teachers, Principals, Fellows
Project Director
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For each year in the project participants will successfully
complete at least 9 credit hours of coursework leading to a Bilingual or ESL
Endorsement and an M. Ed. in Bilingual Multicultural Education in good academic
standing. After three years in the program participants will have completed
an M.Ed. or requested a leave of absence which includes a plan for tuition support
and a timeline for coursework completion.
The number of teachers in each of the seven consortium schools
certified for bilingual, English as a Second Language and Navajo as a Foreign
Language will be calculated annually. In each district the personnel director
will be responsible for updating teaching certificates. For each year in the
project the number of Bilingual, English as a Second Language and Navajo as
a Foreign Language endorsements will increase by 10%.
At the end of each year an assessment survey will be conducted
to assure and to evaluate the performance of teachers regarding the implementation
and methods of the Navajo language curriculum. This assessment survey will be
administered by the Project Director to Mentor Teachers, Bilingual Master's
Fellows and consortium site principals. At the end of year one this survey will
be used to re-evaluate project activities
An External Evaluator will provide the Secretary of Education
with an evaluation of the Learn in Beauty Bilingual Teacher Project every two
years. Course evaluations and information from the BME exit survey, an oral
interview administered to all students completing a graduate or undergraduate
degree, will be used to inform the project. The Center for Excellence in Education
at Northern Arizona University will use the evaluation for program improvement,
to further define the program's purposes, and to determine program effectiveness.
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