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NCATE publishes a variety of materials detailing its role in benefiting educators and the public through its accreditation of schools, colleges, and departments of education.

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Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education (Revised 2002)

NCATE enters the millennium with new accreditation standards emphasizing candidate performance. Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education is now available. All teacher preparation institutions with visits scheduled in fall 2001 and beyond will be reviewed under these standards, and accreditation based on these standards. This attractive 64-page publication contains the six unit standards, including the rubrics that delineate elements of the standards as well as supporting explanations of the standards. Information on NCATE’s mission, scope, and board structure is also included. Order Now

NCATE Speaker’s Guide (2001)

This publication contains NCATE's messages, which you may include in presentations to various groups when speaking about quality teacher preparation. The Guide also contains tips on working successfully with the media, guidelines for effective presentations, and annotated references to a summary of research on teacher quality. Order Now

How Professional Development Schools Make a Difference: A Review of Research (2001)

This paper examines some of the issues in conducting high-quality assessments of professional development schools and delineates a framework with which to examine studies of professional development school impacts. It summarizes key findings from a number of recent research studies that credibly explore the evidence of professional developmewnt school effectiveness, and suggests areas for further research. By Lee Teitel. Order Now

Designing Standards That Work for Professional Development Schools (1998)

Professional development schools—institutions created through partnerships among universities, schools and other organizations—are intended to improve teacher preparation, professional development, and to promote inquiry through collaboration of the partnering institutions in the context of a school. This collection of papers commissioned by NCATE’s Professional Development Schools Standards Project includes an up-to-date literature review, an in-depth survey of 28 PDS sites, four case studies that detail what makes a PDS work, the case for standards for PDSs, and implications for assessing PDSs.
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New NCATE/NBPTS Partnership Papers:

Quality Assessment for Quality Outcomes: Implications for the Design and Implementation of Advanced Master's Programs (2001)

Quality Assessments is the final paper in the NCATE/NBPTS partnership series on the use of standards in developing and achievinga new vision of master’s education for teachers. It focuses on the importance of assessment in ensuring the quality of the master's degree, and argues not only for the importance of how candidates are assessed, but emphasizes how the cumulative picture of candidates’ work both contributes to their development and serves to document it. By Mary Diez and Peggy Blackwell. Order Now

Aligning Standards to Improve Teacher Preparation and Practice (1999)

Gary Galluzzo, dean of the school of education at George Mason University, explores some of the possibilities for transforming preservice teacher education, continuing professional development, and teacher evaluation using National Board standards as a framework. This monograph also presents the challenges facing deans of schools of education as they attempt to ground their programs in the standards of the National Board.  Order Now

Toward a New Vision of Master’s Education for Teachers (1998)

This paper by Peggy Blackwell and Mary Diez presents a compelling argument that master’s degrees, as most of them are currently configured, offer teachers routes out of the classroom. Why is this the case? Blackwell and Diez bring to the fore the need for redesign of advanced teacher development programs and pose a framework from which to approach restructuring. Order Now

Creating Partnerships to Improve Quality Teaching (1998)

This paper by Sylvia Auton, Barbara Browne, and Mary Futrell describes the nature of a partnership developed between The George Washington University and Fairfax County Public Schools to support the redesign of GWU’s advanced master’s degree program and to support National Board candidates as they pursue certification.
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