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Preliminary Administrative Services Credential (PASC)

Mentor Overview Session

December 1, 2021

5:00pm

California State University, Fresno – Department of ? (Edit in Master – Slide Master)

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Session Outcomes

Overview of the program
Roles and responsibilities of the PASC mentor

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Presenting this evening:

Dr. Jessica Hannigan,

Program Coordinator & Faculty

Dr. Nichole Walsh

Program Faculty

Dr. Christina Luna

Program Faculty

Other Program Faculty:

Dr. Cecilia Mendoza

Dr. Jennifer Watson

Dr. Nancy Akhavan,

Interim Department Chair

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Your name, position

Site, District

Why you agreed to be a mentor? :)

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Preliminary Administrative Services Credential/PASC 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.

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1: DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION

OF A SHARED VISION

2: INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP

3: MANAGEMENT & LEARNING

ENVIRONMENT

4: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

5: ETHICS AND INTEGRITY

6: EXTERNAL CONTEXT AND POLICY

California Administrator Performance Expectations (CAPEs)

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1: DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION OF A SHARED VISION Education leaders facilitate the development and implementation of a shared vision of learning and growth of all students.

2: INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP Education leaders shape a collaborative culture of teaching and learning informed by professional standards and focused on student and professional growth.

3: MANAGEMENT AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Education leaders manage the organization to cultivate a safe and productive learning and working environment.

4: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Education leaders collaborate with families and other stakeholders to address diverse student and community interests and mobilize community resources.

5: ETHICS AND INTEGRITY Education leaders make decisions, model, and behave in ways that demonstrate professionalism, ethics, integrity, justice, and equity and hold staff to the same standard.

6: EXTERNAL CONTEXT AND POLICY Education leaders influence political, social, economic, legal and cultural contexts affecting education to improve education policies and practices.

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Spring 2022

Fall 2021

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Field Mentors

In a collaborative partnership between Fresno State’s PASC program and your Local Education Agency (LEA) you are required to work with an in-the-field administrator mentor (PASC Field Mentor) (Site-Based Mentor) throughout the program.

It is expected your mentor provide guidance, assistance, and feedback regarding your work as a candidate in the administrative preparation program.

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Field Mentor: Purpose

➢ Provides guidance, assistance, and feedback regarding the work of the candidate in the administrative preparation program.

➢ Mentors take time during each semester of their respective candidate's 3-semester program to provide professional support and coaching to these future school leaders.

➢ Mentors engage in coaching conversations to facilitate fieldwork planning and post fieldwork reflection for professional growth.

➢ Furthermore, Mentors help connect candidates to experiences at the current site or other school sites to provide a broad range of field experiences to meet the CTC expectations and Fresno State program standards through the CAPEs.

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Qualifications

➢ Hold a California CLEAR administrative services credential

➢ Currently serve as a site principal preferred (or site vice principal in some cases) or in a district office leadership role and

➢ Be approved by district/organization leadership to support the PASC candidate as a mentor

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Role of the Field Mentor

Provide real-world connections between the candidate’s coursework and the site/district/organization context.
Enhance candidate understanding of leadership concepts by sharing personal experiences, offering guidance, and providing feedback on meeting CAPEs goals.
Allow time for candidates to ask questions and make sense of the principal's role in context.
Ask clarifying and probing questions to coach the candidate's thinking and deepen the learning of a specific leadership focus per the fieldwork task.
Connect candidates to specific fieldwork experiences to support the completion of each cycle of the performance-based CalAPA along with other CAPEs aligned tasks to help candidates experience day-to-day work of the site principal in context. In order to facilitate an on-going supportive role.
Establish regular check-in coaching conversation dates/times with the candidate.

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Role of the Field Mentor Continued...

Sign evidence logs after the completion of supervised fieldwork and coaching conversations as appropriate.
At the end of each semester, meet for a longer coaching conversation to consider respective semester course content and skills developed as a result of active fieldwork participation.
Ensure candidates reflect on learning and field experiences to determine areas of growth and focus for the next semester.
Provide honest coaching feedback to candidates as they also discuss their self-assessment on the CAPEs during this final semester meeting.
Collaborate with the EAD 271, 272, and 273 Fresno State PASC instructors as the candidate's university coach/supervisor.
Support candidate in selecting California Administrator Performance Assessment (CalAPA) field work contexts at the site level, including access to site-level data, working with a Community of Practice, and coaching a volunteer teacher. Please reference partnership letter from the CA CTC athttps://www.ctc.ca.gov/docs/default-source/educator-prep/tpa-files/k-12-districts-cos-tpa-2018.pdf?sfvrsn=f0cc50b1_0

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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.

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SAMPLE SEMESTER 1

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Additional fieldwork outlined in their handbook as a reference

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Responsibility of the Candidate

➢ Select a PASC Field Mentor based on reviewed requirements from EAD 271 by the third week of the

first semester in the program.

➢ Establish regular check-in coaching conversations with approved PASC Field mentor.

➢ Complete all requirements from EAD 271, EAD 272, and EAD 273 seminar courses including but not

limited to (Fieldwork reflections per semester).

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Exit Survey

Please take this short exit survey. Thank you:)

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Let’s Go Bulldogs!

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