The main focus of the Dakota ASSETS grant is to recruit and select candidates to fill shortages for teaching positions that exist in South Dakota high need districts and schools. The word ASSETS is derived from the grant’s over-arching goal which is that All Students will be Served by Exceptional TeacherS whose knowledge, skills, and instructional approach result in improved student achievement.

Technology and Innovation in Education (TIE) has established a collaborative partnership with Black Hills State University, SD Teach for America, Sinte Gleska University, Oglala Lakota College, and South Dakota Department of Education to successfully implement this grant’s goals and objectives.

Dakota ASSETS performance objectives to be accomplished are:

  1. To recruit and select outstanding candidates to fill shortages for elementary, secondary, and special education teachers in high need schools in western South Dakota.
  2. To provide intensive, field-based training and preparation for teacher candidates that result in attainment of INTASC, ISTE, and NBPTS standards and teacher certification.
  3. To place 80% of participants in secondary, elementary and special education teaching positions in high need schools.
  4. To provide support (once they are teaching in a high need district & school) to participants for a minimum of one year through on-site mentoring/coaching and extended opportunities for professional development.
  5. To review for revision selection and hiring procedures in partner schools to remove barriers to recruitment and employment for qualified candidates

The power of the Dakota ASSETS grant is that it was designed to incorporate the strengths, successes, and partnerships of previous federal grants which have been awarded to TIE.

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PAL, a Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers for Technology federal grant, represented a partnership with BHSU that caused their COE to embed their teacher preparation program in Professional Development Schools. (1999-2002)

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Teach Dakota, a Transition to Teaching federal grant, caused BHSU to develop and implement an on-line, accelerated teacher certification program.  (2001-2004)

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EveryTeacher, a Teacher Quality Enhancement federal grant, developed a successful model for mentoring support. (2003-2006)

In order to accomplish these objectives, ALL participants involved in one of Dakota ASSETS teacher certification programs:

Shown below is the organizational structure of this grant.

Dakota ASSETS Organizational Chart