Reclaiming Time to Think

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
08/23/2010	College of Education Fall 2010 Retreat	As we gather for the beginning of a new school year, we are encouraged to think about time differently. We are provided with Margaret Wheatley's book, TURNING TO ONE ANOTHER, as a reminder that while the discourse around teaching has been contenious over the past year, we aren't powerless to change the conversation. We can make time to talk with one another. because the answers lie within us.
10/07/2010	A-Team Retreat	Coming out of the fall 2010 A-team retreat is an overaching sense that our college could truly begin to move toward a UNIT approach. The sense that program area lines could and should be blurred in order to create an OMNI feel in structures beyond faculty meetings is a driving transiformational force.
12/17/2010	Margaret Wheatley to speak at Teach Butler: Relclaiming Time to Think	Conversations among the TEACH Butler planning committee members and the inspired"what if" thinking of Professor Susan Adams lead to Margaret (Meg) Wheatley accepting the invitation to give the keynote address during our gathering in July.
01/12/2011	College of Education January Retreat	In January of 2011, we begin the process of re-viewing, re-visiting, and re-envisioning our college's past, present and future. We review our Vision statement, our Core Values and our Image of a Butler College of Education graduate.
03/01/2011	Spring 2011 Semester	Throughout the semester, faculty work in NCATE committees gathering data and investigating our current conceptual framework, curriculum maps, and knowledge base. Program areas continue to work on SPA reporting as well.
05/13/2011	Reclaiming time to Think	Dr. Deb Lecklider secures curriculum development grant for the purpose of holding Foundations and Middle-Secondary Program Areas curriculum retreats. Drs, Kelli Esteves and Shelly Furuness request permission to pull the grants together and extend the curriculum development retreat to the whole college to coincide with the theme and timing of TEACH Butler.
07/26/2011	Reclaiming Time to Think Retreat	Drs. Esteves and Furuness facilitate a two day coversation about reshaping program configuration, restructuring foundations course delivery, and embedding teacher research/inquiry across the curriculum. Every member of the college is invited to the two day event. In attendance: Ena Shelley, Deb Lecklider, Debbie Corpus, Karen Farrell, Katie Brooks, Susan Adams, Shelly Furuness, Kelli Esteves, Mindy Welch, Arthur Hochman, Kenton Smith, Steve Bloom and Brandie Oliver.
08/14/2011	Conceptual Models Drafted	Drs. Esteves and Furuness take the notes and action items from the two-day retreat and craft a set of potential conceptual curriculum maps to reflect the conversations.
08/17/2011	College of Education Fall 2011 Retreat	This year, our theme centered on finding balance. While we have been pretty successful at reclaiming time to think, our new challenge is to find ways to balance pressures and possibilities.
09/20/2011	Dean's Student Advisory Council	Kelli and Shelly attend Dean's Student Advisory Council to share our collective work and seek student input.
09/23/2011	Time to Think, Again	Kelli and Shelly host a second conversation to discuss two models: Model #1 was referred to as "Tweek It" and Model #2 was known as "Blow It Up" . Upon further conversation, Kelli and Shelly are asked to make further progress on the "Blow It Up" model. Ena Shelley, Deb Lecklider, Arthur Hochman, Karen Farrell, Angela Lupton, Sue Stahl, Brooke Kandel, Ryan Flessner, Cathy Hargrove, Lindsay Williams, Theresa Meyer, Susan Adams, Mindy Welch, Kelli Esteves, Shelly Furuness, and Kenton Smith
10/21/2011	Sharing the Progress with OMNI	Here's where we are right now! Approximately 20 different people have helped shape the conversation so far!
10/28/2011	More Time to Think	Kelli and Shelly will host a third conversation. In this conversation, we hope to present a conceptual model and more developed curriculum map. We are hoping for full participation from facutly, staff and students in helping to shape the next draft.
01/30/2012	Unit SLO Plan	By the end of January, a framework for a Unit-wide SLO template--one that looks at the benchmarks and transition points for our students as SLO measures will be complete. This framework will help us tell the story of how our College's vision fits into the vision of our are larger University. This would also eliminate repetitious reporting and would streamline data collection.
03/15/2012	SPA Report Responses	SPA Response to Report for 8 areas will be returned to us in the Spring. The remaining SPA reports will be resubmitted in March. This is relevant to the Time to Think project because it will help us further develop benchmarks and data collection systems.
08/01/2012	Final SPA submission for National Recognition	This submission will coincide with our NCATE visit at both the College and University levels.
10/01/2012	UNIT SLO Report	First UNIT-wide SLO report could be submitted as a pilot framework.
11/01/2012	NCATE Visit	Time to Celebrate
08/20/2013	Pilot the Plan
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
08/23/2010 to 08/23/2013	A Unit Approach: Turning to One Another	This is the story of our thinking about curriculum changes in the College of Education.