Re: BEST program -- anyone know why this was repealed? more

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In ARC (Alternate Route to Certification) program this summer, we learned
that it was eliminated due to a combination of budgets and that they felt
the portfolios, etc. was a bit hard on the first 2 years of teaching.

Someone from the SDE came to talk to us and said that tentatively it is
going to be called MAPS (don't know what that stands for) and that it will
pretty much be like as described below. But because of the budget
standoff will probably not be implemented until the 2010-11 school year.

On 8/11/09, some information . . wrote:
> There is no more BEST program. It is going to be replaced by
> something based on mentoring - another acronym that I can't remember
> right now. There will be no portfolio or observation component as
> there used to be 15+ years ago; it will be centered around some kind
> of mentoring modules that the beginning teacher will have 2 years to
> complete. I assume that individual district's teacher evaluation
> plans for observations, etc. will be in place as well. HOWEVER, all
> this is based on the legislature actually passing a state budget at
> some point. Until that happens, nothing.
 

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