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National standards and competencies adoption

National professional standards are now being integrated into Washington’s endorsement competencies. This transition maintains the rigor of endorsement competencies. Adoption of this new standard will go through a vetting process with various stakeholder groups and content area experts. During this transition, we will continue to ask for public feedback of each area through surveys. Once the national standards are adopted, they will replace the existing Washington endorsement competencies. The subsequent versions of the national standards will also be adopted, and they will be reviewed on a seven-year cycle, but no sooner than two years after adoption.

Note that these standards would be used for programs who are offering the related endorsement areas to pre-service or in-service teachers first seeking to obtain their endorsements. The content assessment educators take as part of the requirements to earn the endorsement would also be aligned to those standards.

In AY 2018 – 19, six areas of national standards underwent a vetting process: Business and Marketing, Early Childhood Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, Library Media, Reading, and Special Education.

Timeline

Timeline*
October 2018 to January 2019 PESB will vet the national standards.
November 2018 to March 2019 PESB staff will review feedback.
January/March 2019 PESB staff will present the feedback to the Board during the January/March meeting. If feedback is positive or minimal, the national standards will be considered for adoption.
January to June 2019 If feedback is significant, PESB staff may convene a work group to review the competencies with significant feedback. If necessary, a new set of Washington endorsement competencies incorporated with the national standards may be redeveloped.
July 2019 The Board may review and adopt the new set of Washington endorsement competencies.
*This timeline may be subject to change

For Early Childhood Education and Special Education, the draft versions of new NAYEC standards and CEC standards have been vetted. If feedback is positive or minimal, we plan to adopt the final version of each standards like the following:

  • Use WA competencies until the new standards are published
  • Once the new standards are published, staff will review the standards and compare them with the draft version.
  • If there is a significant difference, the staff will start a process of reviewing the standards with related stakeholder groups.
  • If there is minimal or no difference, the published standards will be adopted and implemented.

Past surveys

Board response to national standards vetting for Business and Marketing, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Library Media, Family and Consumer Sciences, and Reading

Overview:

Board members approved the adoption of national standards for the following areas:

  • Business and Marketing: National Business Education Association (NBEA) standards
  • Early Childhood Education: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) standards

Board members postponed the adoption of national standards in the following areas until the final version of standards and indicators are released:

  • Special education
  • Library media
  • Family and Consumer Sciences

Board members directed further research on the following area:

  • Reading
National standards implementation timeline

The national standards adopted by the Board will be used for programs who are offering the related endorsement areas to pre-service or in-service teachers seeking to obtain their endorsements. The content assessment educators take as part of the requirements to earn the endorsement will also be aligned to those standards. The national standards implementation timeline for Business and Marketing and Early Childhood Education is like the following:

Business and marketing
  • 2019 Fall: Programs should implement the new standards that incorporated the NBEA standards (Please refer to the side-by-side chart)
  • 2020 Fall: The corresponding NES Business Education assessment will be adopted
Early Childhood Education
  • For Early Childhood Education, the draft versions of the revised NAEYC standards were vetted. We plan to adopt the final version of NAEYC standards like the following:
    • Use WA competencies until the new standards are published
    • Once the new standards are published, staff will review the standards and compare them with the draft version.
    • If there is a significant difference, the staff will start a process of reviewing the standards with related stakeholder groups.
    • If there is minimal or no difference, the published standards will be adopted and implemented.
  • Please note that the NES Early Childhood Education(ECE) assessment was adopted when PESB aligned the Washington ECE endorsement competencies with the Common Core standards. As the NES ECE assessment is already in place, we do not anticipate any change in terms of ECE content assessment.

Family and Consumer Sciences

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Library-Media

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Excerpted from National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association, copyright © 2018 American Library Association. Used with permission. Cannot be distributed for purposes other than this PESB review. Any request for use should be directed to aaslstandards@ala.org.

Reading

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Early Childhood Education

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Special Education

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Business and Marketing

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Questions?

If you have any questions about the vetting process, please contact Jisu Ryu, Program Manager at jisu.ryu@k12.wa.us

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