Dr. Virginia Kennedy is a long-time member of the California Council on Teacher Education (CCTE) and has served as committee member, Board member, and most recently as its President from 2018-2020. She has been on many CCTE conference committees, has made several CCTE conference presentations, and is presently co-chairing her third CCTE conference, to be held in Fall 2021. She also serves on CCTE’s Intersegmental Project Task Force, which develops and coordinates the Professional Development for Mentoring New Teachers certificate program for mentor teachers and clinical practice supervisors.
Other CCTE-related current affiliations include the California Association of Professors of Special Education/Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children (CAPSE/TED), and the California Alliance for Inclusive Schooling (CAIS), both associated organizations of CCTE. She also participates in the Special Education SIG (Special Interest Group) and the Induction SIG. She co-chairs the Preparation Subcommittee of California CEEDAR.
Dr. Kennedy is a faculty member at California State University Northridge in the Department of Special Education, with a focus on teacher preparation in the area of mild/moderate disabilities, and is the Induction Coordinator. Recent presentations include “Induction and the Changing Face of Special Education” at the California Induction Conference (2019), and “When Policy Implementation Needs Updating: Induction and Changes in Inclusive Education”, CCTE SPAN Conference 2020, with Dr. Melissa Meetze-Hall.