The Teacher Education program at the College of St. Scholastica is accredited by both the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) for a period of 7 years, from October 2013 to October 2020. This accreditation includes the following sites: Duluth, Brainerd, St. Paul, St. Cloud, and Rochester, Minnesota. The accreditation does not include individual education courses that the Educator Preparation Program offers to P-12 educators for professional development, re-licensure, or other purposes.
Read a summary of the case to CAEP
Read a summary of the case to TEAC
Minnesota Board of Teaching Approval (BOT)
The fully accredited Teacher Education Program is assessed according to the requirements and standards of the Minnesota Board of Teaching (BOT). The teacher education program has full continuing approval through June 30, 2019.
In the School of Education, all of our programs foster high academic standards, technological literacy, collaborative partnerships, and a diverse learner perspective. Licensure programs are standards based, designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions characteristic of highly qualified educational professionals.
Experienced facultyFaculty members have significant K-12 and administrative experience, allowing them to bring real-world perspective to their students.
Every teacher licensure program includes a student teaching component, but we prepare students to lead classrooms by getting them into schools from their very first semester. This experience in the classroom provides students with the experience to be successful educators with fulfilling careers. It also helps those students who do not thrive in a classroom setting to discover this early in their education.
Dean Jo Olsen joined St. Scholastica in 2000. She earned an Ed.D. in educational leadership from the University of St. Thomas.
Her B.S. degree is in psychology and sociology and her M.S. is in school psychology.
Jo has extensive experience as a school psychologist in Minnesota and Wisconsin K-12 school districts.
21st Century Teaching and Learning Conference
Featuring Keynote Speaker: Mark Garrison
June 16, 2015
First-Year Students
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