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| Margaret (Marn) Frank |
ATLAS/Hamline Consultant
Minnesota STAR Project Lead
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Fran0557@umn.edu
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Professional Development System
Statewide and regional professional development for Minnesota ABE is primarily provided using federal and state supplemental services funds. Astrid Liden is the state's Professional Development Coordinator. She works with ATLAS (ABE Teaching and Learning Advancement System) housed at Hamline University to coordinate state and regional professional development activities. There are eight regions within Minnesota; each led by a Regional Professional Development Coordinator who determines training needs according to local input, state priorities, and teacher licensure requirements. Kim Johnson, Assistant Hamline Professor, coordinates ATLAS along with her Program Assistant, Marisa Geisler, and Marn Frank is the contracted STAR Project Leader. The Minnesota Literacy Council (MLC) is another supplemental service provider focused on volunteer tutor training and technology-based staff development. During FY 2009, Minnesota intends to develop a Professional Development System that includes a vision, needs assessment, goals, policies, standards, plans, resources, delivery models and evaluation mechanisms.
For more information about Minnesota statewide and regional professional development, go to: www.hamline.edu/atlas
STAR Pilot
Minnesota STAR programs were selected or invited to participate according to their openness to change, organizational structure, management practices, collaborative culture, and interest in improving reading assessment and reading instruction. Each Minnesota STAR teacher, depending on the size of the program, has a classroom or small group of Low/High Intermediate ABE students; most are American-born, others are foreign-born, but involved in academic or GED preparation.
Programs Implementing STAR
The eleven Minnesota STAR consortia or programs represent the diversity within Minnesota ABE. They include metropolitan and outstate programs; small, medium, and large-sized programs; and several correctional settings.
- Adult Academic Program, Robbinsdale, Minnesota
- Adult Options in Education (AOIE), Hopkins, Minnesota
- Austin Adult Learning, Austin, Minnesota
- Cass Lake-Bena ABE, Cass Lake, Minnesota
- Department of Corrections, Shakopee and Stillwater, Minnesota
- Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Metro North ABE, Blaine, Centennial, Elk River, and Forest Lake, Minnesota
- Osseo Adult and Family Learning, Osseo, Minnesota
- South Hennepin Adult Programs in Education (SHAPE), Bloomington, Minnesota
- Volunteers of America High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Willmar Consortium, Willmar, Hutchinson, and Delano, Minnesota
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