In 2024, colleges who were awarded funds through the FY24 CITE Strategic Planning RFP are required to submit for review and feedback deliverables for their work to date in the “Visioning” RFP track that relate to the development of CITE program-level learning goals.

Colleges are expected to submit learning goals deliverables for review for each of the programs that were supported through the RFP to engage in visioning activities.

Ready to submit? – Choose a submission deadline: 4/15, 5/20, 8/12, 10/15 – Double check that your program’s CITE Learning Goals are aligned with the learning goal checklist – Review the submission requirements – Complete and upload materials to the submission form here

What are colleges asked to submit?

This checkpoint is focused only on deliverables in the Visioning track that relate to development of CITE program-level learning goals. There will be separate checkpoints and/or modes of reporting for other areas of work supported by the RFP, including work associated with Ratification, Implementation, and Strategic Coordination tracks.

When we say CITE learning goals, what do we mean?

What you and your CITE committee create doesn’t have to be in a format that would pass the bureaucratic hurdles of your institution. Imagine it as a document that gets you, your colleagues, and CITE Central on the same page about what you expect your TCs to learn and practice relating to computing and digital literacies (CDLs) by the time they graduate.

This document should be clear and specific enough so your team can get feedback from CITE central, and so your team can thoughtfully design scopes and sequences, clinical experiences, assessments, and other curriculum. This means defining terms like “digital literacies” and linking specific computing and digital competencies to the purposes for their use in teacher ed.

After you’ve done this work, your team can think about the best ways to thread these goals into your institutional formats and genres. For example, CITE learning goals might show up in some form in your “Program Learning Outcomes” or “Student Learning Outcomes” or course descriptions, “Course Learning Outcomes” etc depending on the ways your college expresses curricular priorities.

Why a checkpoint around Learning Goals? Our Theory of Change

We think that supporting colleges to first build capacity around a vision, including clear, meaningful, and equitable target learning outcomes for CITE in specific programs will provide colleges with a solid foundation on which to build out scopes and sequences and curricula.

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This review is a fencepost, not a finish line. CUNY Central is engaging in this review process in order to share formal feedback to help college teams strengthen and improve CITE program learning goals to ensure they are clear, meaningful, and equitable. We see this as an important milestone that will lay the foundation for college teams as they move their work forward: strong learning goals are key to supporting scope and sequence development, internal communications & achieving buy-in, faculty professional learning, curriculum development, research studies, and more.

Specifically, the review process aims to provide personalized feedback that helps advance the following next steps towards program ratification, depending on nature of the feedback:

If a set of CITE Program Learning Goals are strong, then the feedback process will support teams to plan next steps related to:

• Designing a scope and sequence based on CITE Program Learning Goals
• Establishing collective agreement among faculty that will be involved in instruction linked to CITE Program Learning Goals
• If needed, engaging in any necessary formal institutional approval of CITE program learning goal guidance documents

If a set of CITE Program Learning Goals requires substantial improvement, then the feedback process will support teams with advice on how to improve them and support resubmission.

We do not assume that even if the CITE Learning Goals are in good shape that what you submit is the “final” form they will take – a program’s understanding of computing and digital literacies (CDLs) will change, implementation of CITE Learning Goals in coursework will raise issues, blind spots, and opportunities, and technology will change. Instead, this is meant to support forward movement and iteration based on a solid foundation.

Evaluation criteria

Review and feedback will be based on the criteria of “Clear”, “Meaningful”, and “Equitable” as articulated in the CITE Program Learning Goals Checklist, which was developed from the RFP Deliverable Scoring Rubric originally published in June 2023.

Submission requirements

Submissions requirements are detailed in full here. In short, submissions of CITE Program Learning Goals for a given program should take the form of a document that includes:

• Learning Goals Development Process Context – what activities led to the development of the learning goals, and how internal perspectives and external guidance were considered.
• CITE Program Learning Goals – the list of proposed CITE learning goals for the program.
• Justification – rationale for the proposed program learning goals and alignment with existing program outcomes and college priorities.
• Next Steps – how these learning goals will be operationalized and used to move CITE work forward.

Read the full submission requirements here.

Review process and feedback

There will be four cycles of review and feedback on CITE Program Learning Goals in 2024. Please discuss with CUNY Central which round(s) your team intends to submit to and which program(s) your team will focus on in a given round.

Round	Submit	Written Feedback	Feedback Discussion
Four	10/15/24	11/8	11/18 – 11/22
Five	5/12/25	6/10	Week of 6/16
Six	7/28/25	8/18	Week of 8/25

Submissions received on or before 5/20 will qualify colleges for participation in compensated workshops to support teams to envision CITE Goals-aligned clinical experiences in summer 2024. 

Ready to submit?

Complete and upload materials to this form to submit a CITE Program Learning Goals Visioning Deliverable for one program. Colleges that are submitting Visioning deliverables for multiple programs will need to submit the form once per program, unless they have a justification for presenting learning goals for multiple programs in the same document.

If you have any questions related to the number of submissions your college should be making, please contact the CUNY Central team.