Dear California Teacher Education Colleague:

The California Council on Teacher Education provides leadership to the California teacher education community on many fronts — supporting and encouraging the efforts of teacher educators at postsecondary and K-12 institutions across the state, monitoring and evaluating the activities of policymakers and state agencies that impact teacher education, studying and developing proposals for better and more effective teacher education policy and practice, and communicating and advocating on behalf of California teacher educators.

CCTE is currently engaged in the following activities:

• analyzing the No Child Left Behind federal legislation and developing a professional and proactive definition of quality teaching.
  
  
• monitoring state legislation and regulations and advocating approaches that will assist rather than deter effective teacher education.
  
  
• utilizing our Legislative and Educational Policy Analyst Elizabeth Jimenez as a key spokesperson for teacher education in Sacramento.
  
  
• publishing two high quality teacher education journals — Teacher Education Quarterly and Issues in Teacher Education — and a quarterly newsletter to disseminate and share scholarship, analysis, news, and opinion.
  
  
• providing a home for several statewide committees and a dozen Special Interest Groups.
  
  
• holding semi-annual conferences where teacher educators come together to hear and discuss the latest in national, state, and local teacher education policy, research, and practice.
  
  
• developing a strategic plan to maximize our organizational effectiveness in serving the needs of all teacher educators across California.
  
  
• focusing on issues and goals of equity and social justice as central to all education, including teacher education.

To continue these efforts, CCTE needs the involvement of all California teacher educators, from all colleges and universities, from all sectors of K-12, and from all other institutions, agencies, associations, and organizations across the state. We need YOU.

Please join CCTE for the 2009-2010 membership year (July 2009 through June 2010). An individual membership form is available for download on this site. If you anticipate that you will be serving as an institutional delegate to CCTE during the 2009-2010 year, please check to be sure, and if not please join as an individual member.

If you have any questions about CCTE membership or any of our activities, don’t hesitate to contact us.

—Alan H. Jones, CCTE Executive Secretary

Download and complete the membership form and return it to:

Alan H. Jones, Executive Secretary
California Council on Teacher Education
3145 Geary Boulevard, PMB 275
San Francisco, CA 94118