Our guest, Dr. Mark LaCelle-Peterson, is a founding team member and President of the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP). Mark addresses the founding of AAQEP, responding to a demand for greater flexibility and innovation in education accreditation and an examination of quality in context. A cornerstone of AAQEP’s focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is anchored in a standard requiring education preparation programs to work with P-12 schools most in nee...
Our guest, Dr. Christopher (Chris) A. Koch, is President of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). The council is comprised of more than 550 member institutions. This episode is part one in a two-part series on Leading Equity and Effectiveness in Education Preparation through Accreditation. Dr. Koch discusses how CAEP and its standards for accreditation are resources for educational equity, addressing the unique needs of individual Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs)...
