AACTE has formed a new partnership with the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network and the Association of Teacher Educators to support teacher preparation programs in including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues in their curriculum.

The partnership aims to (1) improve the knowledge base regarding the state of teacher preparation on LGBT issues through a national research study and (2) develop programmatic efforts and/or resources, informed by the research findings, to further inclusion of LGBT issues in teacher preparation.

For more information, read AACTE's official press release.

AACTE is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 awards program. The following recipients will be honored at the upcoming AACTE Annual Meeting in Indianapolis:

Outstanding Dissertation Award
Chezare A. Warren (University of Illinois at Chicago; Steven E. Tozer, adviser) for Empathic Interaction: White Female Teachers and Their Black Male Students

Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education Article Award
Magdalene Lampert (BPE/Boston Teacher Residency), Megan Loef Franke (University of California Los Angeles), Elham Kazemi (University of Washington), Hala Ghousseini (University of Wisconsin), Angela Chan Turrou (UCLA), Heather Beasley (University of Michigan), Adrian Cunard (University of Washington), and Kathleen Crowe (University of Washington) for "Keeping It Complex: Using Rehearsals to Support Novice Teacher Learning of Ambitious Teaching" (Vol. 64, No. 3)