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Register yourself and/or colleagues for AACTE events.

Faculty/Staff members can view and update their personal contact information.

Chief Representative can view and update their personal contact information, institutional information, other Institutional Representatives and non-representative faculty, add new faculty members to your institution, request a change in Chief Representative.

The American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) and Stanford University have formed a partnership to develop the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA), a 25-state initiative involving more than 140 teacher preparation programs. The TPA will create a body of evidence of teaching competence, offer a vehicle for systematically examining the assessment data to improve teacher preparation programs, provide professional development to practicing teachers, and inform decisions about tenure of individual teachers.

PEDS, the Professional Education Data System, provides AACTE with member-specific data on enrollment, degree, program completion, faculty, and resources. The collection of such data creates an authoritative, aggregate database for member institutions’ professional education programs and research. Selected data are included in publications and provide a rich description of AACTE member institutions to the public. Selected PEDS trend data are shared with NCATE for annual accreditation reports.

AACTE accepts advertisements of interest to our members in several of our publications. There are four primary advertising outlets: Briefs, the web site, the Journal of Teacher Education, and Annual Meeting publications.

The Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) has been a leading voice in the field of teacher education for over 50 years and is one of the most widely read professional journals in that field. The JTE’s five peer-reviewed issues per volume year contain thematic and general interest articles as well as editorials and book reviews. Its content focuses on policy, practice, and research that contribute to teacher education as a field of inquiry along numerous themes, including accreditation, assessment and evaluation, extended programs, teacher education faculty, student teaching, and others.

NCATE (the National Council for Accreditation in Teacher Education) is a coalition of 33 member organizations—representing over 3 million teachers, teacher educators, content specialists, and state and local policy makers—all of which are committed to quality teaching.

TEAC is the Teacher Education Accreditation Council, founded in 1997, and dedicated to improving academic degree programs for professional educators—those who teach and lead in pre-K-12 schools.

A Professional Development School (PDS) is a P-12 school that supports a multidimensional program collaboratively designed and managed by a school-university partnership. The major purposes of the PDS are: (a) to identify, develop, test, and refine practices that promote student achievement; (b) to support initial preparation and continuing professional development for teachers and other school-based educators; and (c) to support applied inquiry designed to improve pupil and educator development.