National Teacher Education Accreditation With Equity at the Center: An Accreditor's Perspective

• In Event: Teacher Preparation Evaluation Systems: What Would It Take to Put Equity at the Center?

Abstract

What would it look like if equity were made the central focus of national accreditation in teacher preparation? This paper argues that if quality assurance discourse and practices were focused squarely on equity, teacher educators could use accreditation to advance a justice and equity agenda that utilizes “intelligent professional responsibility” as a guiding framework (Cochran-Smith 2021; Cochran-Smith, Carney et al. 2018). This paper provides an account of efforts to move in this direction by a recently established national educator preparation accreditation agency.

Author

• Mark W. LaCelle-Peterson, Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation