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Episode 226 | Clinical Grading, Competency Tracking and Accreditation Prep: How Sara Taft Built Upscale Assessment

20 October 2026 · 32:20 · Episode 229

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Anyone who has coordinated a dental hygiene clinic knows how much time goes into clinical competency tracking, chasing down students and pulling records together for accreditation. Sara Taft, the dental hygiene program director at Waukesha County Technical College, spent three to four hours a week on that tracking as a second-year clinical coordinator. As workload hours went down and enrollment went up, it was all…

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