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Washington Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

The Mission of the Washington Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is to provide leadership on issues related to professional education, with primary focus on teacher education.

This Mission is pursued through activities which:

  1. promote equity, diversity, and inclusion within the professional education community;
  2. promote effective public policy regarding professional education;
  3. enhance and improve professional education programs at member institutions; and
  4. enhance the professional effectiveness of members.
 

State Board of Education Updating Graduation Requirements

The FutureReady initiative is a State Board of Education (SBE) project to update Washington's high schoool graduation requirements. The boards have requested additional updates as the initiative moves forward. PESB staff plan to provide these updates at a future board meeting.

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Statement on Racism

The Washington Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (WACTE), the group of colleges and universities that prepare teachers for Washington’s K-12 schools, condemns the latest in a long series of police killings of African Americans—the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police officers—and hope our ongoing efforts to diversify the teaching workforce and specifically prepare teachers with anti-racist tools, can contribute to the healing and changes necessary as we move forward.

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Call for Manuscripts

Pennsylvania Teacher Educator is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing scholarship, research, and best practices in educator preparation and teacher education. They have recently expanded their scope and now welcome submissions from scholars and educators across the United States and beyond.

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