Believe and Prepare: LADOE Celebrates Louisiana Tech's COE and Lincoln Parish Schools' Successes

At 9 am in the Claiborne Building in Baton Rouge, LA, the Believe and Prepare Community Meeting was hosted by the Louisiana Department of Education. Featured was Mrs. Lisa Allen, a Louisiana Tech graduate, Fourth Grade educator at Ruston Elementary School and collaborator with Drs. Dawn Basinger and Amy Massey Vessel of the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Leadership on the Louisiana Tech University Believe and Prepare project. The project is focused on mentor teacher preparation to support teacher candidates before and during year long clinical residencies.  A variety of sessions were hosted during the event and included the following :

Mentor Training
Communicating to Ensure Candidate Success
Digital Support Tools
First, Are Students Learning? Using Data to Strengthen the Preparation Experiences
Preparation Program Inspection: Process and Outcomes
Teachers' Guide to PARCC Results

The Louisiana Tech University Believe and Prepare project has been incredibly successful. More than 70 educators have attended multiple workshops and conference sessions in the College of Education since the beginning of 2016. State Superintendent John White has also visited the district on multiple occasions to see the great things happening as a result of the grant program. We are proud of the work of the COE faculty and the amazing mentor teachers in Lincoln, Ouachita, and Union parishes!