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July 2018

We are hoping you are staying cool as the summer heat spreads across Washington. CSTP is thrilled to debut and offer you a free copy of our newly revised Teacher Leadership Framework featuring Equity. We also held our first training with the revised Framework as well as sessions on High-Functioning PLCs at Camp CSTP. Don't forget to check out our staff reading recommendations, provide feedback on the state changes to clock hour policy, and celebrate our state's new Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching winners. 
 
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CSTP Teacher Leadership Framework Featuring EquityTLF
The Teacher Leadership Framework is a foundational document that lays out the knowledge, skills and dispositions teachers need to be effective in informal and formal teacher leadership roles. 

Earlier this year, CSTP worked with a group of educators - teachers leaders and administrators - to read and review the CSTP Teacher Leadership Framework. With their brains and expertise, we're excited to unveil the new Framework which has a newly added knowledge and skills called Equity Lens, an accompanying Equity Lens self-assessment and has more explicit equity connections in the other existing areas of the Framework (Working with Adults, Collaboration, Communication, Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy and Systems Thinking). 

Download a free copy of the Teacher Leadership Framework and Self-Assessments now on the CSTP website.

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In This Issue
Upcoming Events & Opportunities
PESB's Educator Retooling Scholarship 
Date: September 21, 2018
Scholarship: up to $3,000
Campers Attend Camp CSTP CampCSTP


It was a full house at Rainbow Lodge for Camp CSTP last week as educators participated in four different professional learning sessions:
 
* resource development intersecting students with disabilities and instructional frameworks
* creating high-functioning PLCs and
* utilizing the teacher leadership framework

Camp CSTP is an opportunity provided every summer that typically happens the third week in July. If you didn't make it this year, we hope you can join us next year. Stay tuned for information on next year's sessions after the new year. 
Thank you to State Systems Improvement Lead for the Network to Transform Teaching (NT3), Shannon Cotton

The Washington National Board Network Partners (CSTP, OSPI and WEA) were honored to have NBCT Shannon Cotton serve part-time as the State Systems Improvement Lead for the Network to Transform Teaching (NT3) Grant during the 2017-2018 school year. She assisted the WA Partners in supporting educators across our state through the management of mini-grants focused to teachers focused on embedding the National Board Body of Knowledge in PLCs, instructional leadership and new teacher support. Next year Shannon will move back into her full-time role as a health and fitness teacher in the Camas School District.
Congratulations to Washington's Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Winners
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Congratulations to Washington educators, Kitten Vaa and Jana Dean, for being selected as the awardees of the 2018 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science educators. Kitten Vaa teaches second grade at Brighton School in Mountlake Terrace. Jana Dean taught sixth grade mathematics and science for eight years at Jefferson Middle School and next year will move to Reeves Middle School. This summer these educators were honored at a ceremony in Washington D.C. and received $10,000 from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about these amazing educators and this program on the  Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science website.
Clock Hour Policy ChangesCH

The Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) is reviewing policy around clock hours in the upcoming year and wants your feedback. Let them know what you would like to see addressed in the clock hour policy at  http://bit.ly/2M7Mc2L by August 31st. 
Partner with CSTP to Offer Clock Hours at Your Workshop

Are you planning professional development for your staff? How about a literature circle or a short series of learning opportunities? Tie your workshops to clock hours through CSTP.

CSTP is an approved clock hour provider in the State of Washington. We have a simple application process for you and your participants, with approval times within one week. Once the training is over, we have a simplified electronic evaluation process that we administer to participants, and we hold onto their clock hour records per the state retention schedule.
It's free for you to apply to offer the clock hours, and low fees for participants to collect their clock hours. Participant fees are $10 for 3-9.9 hours, $20 for 10-19.5 hours, $30 for 20-49.9 hours, and $50 for 50 or more hours.

Find out more information on our website including the clock hour application at http://cstp-wa.org/clock-hour-information/. Questions? Contact Cindy Kleinfelter at cindy@cstp-wa.org.
CSTP Staff Summer Reading  Recommendations

This month CSTP Director of Teacher Leadership and Learning, Lindsey Stevens, shares her summer reading recommendation. Do you have summer reading recommendations that you want to share? Tell us what you are reading and we will feature recommendations in the August CSTP newsletter.

ReadingStaff Member
Recommendation


Blind Spot by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald 
I recommend this book because it takes a subject that can be really uncomfortable and wrapped up in some very complicated feelings and addresses it with safety and truth.  This book helps readers to see their own blind spots and to think about how we got them with out shaming you into feeling like a bad person.  I love the "mindbugs" in chapter one and how it changes your perspective immediately. It is really powerful and has the potential to change our actions and raise awareness about our world and culture. 

Stories From School Roundup 

SFSCSTP's Stories From School bloggers are always busy working on new stories.  Here is a recap of new articles for the past month.