Meeting of the Board of Regents | January 2009

THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT / THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK / ALBANY, NY 12234

 

TO:	Higher Education Committee
FROM:	Johanna Duncan-Poitier
SUBJECT:	Appointment to the State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching
DATE:	December 29, 2008
STRATEGIC GOAL:	Goal 3
AUTHORIZATION(S):

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Issue for  Decision (Consent Agenda)

 

Should the Board of Regents approve the proposed appointment to the State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching?

 

Reason(s) for Consideration

 

Required by State regulation.

 

Proposed Handling

 

This question will come before the Higher Education Committee at its January 2009 meeting where it will be voted on and action taken. It will then come before the full Board at its January 2009 meeting for final action.

 

Procedural History

 

Terms for members of the State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching are set forth in Regents Rule 3.14. The Board of Regents appoints members to four-year terms, with the exception of the teacher education student member, who is appointed to a two-year term. Board co-chairs are appointed for two-year terms.

 

 

 

 

 

Background Information

 

There are currently three vacancies on the Board. One of these is the unexpired term of a higher education member who resigned from the Board prior to the end of his term, which we are now proposing to fill.

 

The following individual is recommended for appointment: Jan P. Hammond (higher education member). A brief biographical sketch of the proposed new member and a list of current members are attached.

 

Recommendation

 

It is recommended that the Board of Regents approve the following appointment to the State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching: that Jan P. Hammond (higher education member) be appointed to an unexpired term beginning December 16, 2008 and ending June 30, 2010.

 

Timetable for Implementation

 

The member’s term will begin immediately upon appointment.

 

Attachment

State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching                                            As of November 2008
Dr. Debra A. Colley, Co-Chair Niagara University College of Education, O’Shea Hall, B-9 Niagara University, New York 14109 Term Expires: June 30, 2010	Dr. Eric R. Gidseg, Co-chair Arlington Central School District 696 Dutchess Turnpike Poughkeepsie, New York 12603 Term Expires: June 30, 2012
Mr. Richard R. Ahola 4568 Lakeview Road Dundee, NY 14837 Term Expires: June 30, 2010	Ms. Sheila Appel IBM 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 Term Expires: June 30, 2011
Ms. Allison Cugini New York City Department of Education 715 Ocean Terrace Room 319, Building A Staten Island, New York 10301 Term Expires: June 30, 2010	Mr. Richard G. Feller Board of Education Monticello Central School District 227 Forestburgh Road Monticello, New York 12701 Term Expires: June 30, 2011
Ms. Catalina R. Fortino UFT Teacher Center 52 Broadway, 18th Floor New York, New York 10004 Term Expires: June 30, 2009	Mrs. Cheryl Lee Freedman 7 Cedar Drive Tuxedo Park, New York 10987 Term Expires: June 30, 2012
Ms. Rosemary B. Harrigan The Greater Capital Region Teacher Center 1580 Columbia Turnpike Castleton, New York 12033 Term Expires: June 30, 2009	Ms. Aseba Harris Union Graduate College 807 Union Street, Lamont House Schenectady, NY 12308 Term Expires: June 30, 2010
Dr. R. Lloyd Jaeger Millbrook Central School District P.O. Box AA Millbrook, New York 12545 Term Expires: June 30, 2010	Dr. Gerald M. Mager School of Education Syracuse University 150 Huntington Hall Syracuse, New York 13244-2340 Term Expires: June 30, 2011
Ms. April D. McKoy Bushwick Community School 231 Palmetto Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, New York 11221 Term Expires: June 30, 2012	Dr. Nicholas Michelli The City University of New York The Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue New York, New York 10016 Term Expires: June 30, 2009
Ms. Susan W. Mittler Ithaca Teachers Association Ithaca City School District 1375 North Cayuga Street Ithaca, New York 14850 Term Expires: June 30, 2009	Mr. Joseph F. Perez Southern Westchester BOCES Sprain Brook Academy P.O. Box 10 Valhalla, New York 10595 Term Expires: June 30, 2011
Dr. Susan D. Phillips University at Albany, SUNY ED 212, 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 Term Expires: June 30, 2011	Dr. Evelyn J. Rich 205 West End Avenue #4N New York, New York 10023 Term Expires: June 30, 2009
Ms. Patricia E. Roberts Stewart School 501 Stewart Avenue Garden City, New York 11530 Term Expires: June 30, 2010	Mr. Walter Robertson III Dunkirk  City School District Dunkirk, NY 14048 Term Expires: June 30, 2012
Ms. Diane L. Rowe Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo 282 Babcock Street Buffalo, New York 14210 Term Expires: June 30, 2010	Dr. Pamela A. Sandoval SUNY System Administration State University Plaza Albany, New York 12246 Term Expires: June 30, 2011
Mr. Frank S. Scelsa Lewiston-Porter High School 4061 Creek Road Youngstown, New York 14174 Term Expires: June 30, 2012	Dr. Gale Sookdeo Susan B. Anthony IS 238 Q 88-15 182nd Street Hollis, New York 11423 Term Expires: June 30, 2011
Dr. Stephen J. Uebbing Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development University of Rochester Box 270425, Dewey Hall Rochester, New York 14627 Term Expires: June 30, 2009

 

The University of the State of New York

The State Education Department

 

State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching

 

Jan P. Hammond                                                                       Membership Category: Educator

State University College at New Paltz

New Paltz, New York

 

              Jan Hammond has served as associate professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the State University College at New Paltz for the past nine years. From 1999 to 2006, she also served as department chair. She is currently coordinator of off-site programs and educational internship programs and also coordinates the College’s doctoral cohort in cooperation with SUNY Albany. From 1989 to 1998, Dr. Hammond served as principal of Tuxedo Elementary School and from 1998-1999, as district business administrator for the Tuxedo Union Free School District. She has taught as an adjunct in Farleigh Dickinson University’s College of Business Administration and in Pace University’s School of Education and served on two Middle States Association Accreditation Committees. She began her career in education as a teacher, serving as music director and teacher in North Salem High School and, before that, as a middle school teacher in the Phoenix Central School District.

 

              Dr. Hammond is president of the Collegiate Association for Developing Educational Administrators (CADEA) and chapter advisor for student teachers for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).She currently serves on the General Advisory Group of the Wallace Foundation/SED Leadership Initiative. Dr. Hammond is past president of New York ASCD and past chair of the New York State Association for Women in Administration. While principal of Tuxedo Elementary School, the school was named a NYS School of Excellence in 1997 in the Blue Ribbon Schools process. Among her many awards, she received Phi Lambda Theta’s Best Curriculum Innovation Award for Westchester County for 1987-88 and was a 1984 Fulbright recipient.

 

              Dr. Hammond has a B.A. in education from the State University of New York College at Cortland; an M.S. in music administration from Western Connecticut State University; an Advanced Certificate in administration and supervision from Southern Connecticut State University; and an Ed.D. in policy and administration theory from Teachers College of Columbia University.