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CCTE Announcements
Spring 2012 Issue of CCNews Now Available
The Spring 2012 issue of CCNews, the quarterly newsletter of the California Council on Teacher Education, has just been published and is available for your reading pleasure in the newsletter section of this web site. Or, more directly, you can use the links below to access the newsletter.
This Spring 2012 issue of CCNews has four sections, and you can access them as a single PDF if you prefer or you can view each section as a separate PDF. The links to both the entire newsletter and the four sections follow:
Entire Spring 2012 Issue
click – ccnewsspring 2012entireissue.pdf
The four sections are:
Section 1 – News & Reports
click – ccnewsspring2012section1-news&reports.pdf
Section 2 – Conferences
click – ccnewsspring2012section2-conferences.pdf
Section 3 – Organization & Activities
click – ccnewsspring20121section3-organization&activities.pdf
Section 4 – Interview & Commentary
click – ccnewsspring2012section4-interview&commentary.pdf
This issue of the newsletter features the final President’s Message from Magaly Lavadenz, a preview of the Spring 2012 Conference (including the tentative program and registration form), and information about a wide range of CCTE activities, as well as two interesting and relevant interview and commentary articles in the fourth section.
It’s not too late to register for the Spring 2012 Conference, either by mail now or on site in San Jose. We hope you will joiin us there for another stimulating CCTE conference.
You are encouraged to share the newsletter with your colleagues, either by printing out and distributing copies, by forwarding the PDF files from the website, or by sharing the links to the newsletter on the website.
Winter 2011 Issue of CCTE Newsletter Published
The Winter 2011 issue of CCNews, the quarterly newsletter of CCTE, has been published and is now available in four sections in the newsletter section of this website. You can access it from the newsletter page, or by clicking below on any of the four sections:
Section 1 - News & Reports
Section 2 - Conferences
Section 3 - Organizations & Activities
Section 4 - Promising Practices
Fall 2011 Issue of CCTE Newsletter Published
The Fall 2011 issues of CCNews is now available here on the CCTE website. This Fall 2011 issue consists of three sections, each a separate PDF file. The sections are:
Section 1 - News & Reports
Section 2 - Conferences
Section 3 - Organizations & Activities
The newsletter is now published in sections to allow you to directly access the information you want and to offer you smaller and more manageable PDF files. All CCTE members and delegates are urged to read all three sections. The first section features Magaly Lavadenz's CCTE President's message and several current reports, the second section provides a preview of the Fall 2011 Conference along with a registration form for you to use right away if you haven't already registered, and the third section includes information on a wide range of CCTE programs and activities.
CCTE Fall 2011 Conference To Be Held October 13-15
Theme: Reconnecting Student Voice with Teacher Education in a Globalized Society
Click here for Announcement (including tentative program and registration form)
Summer 2011 Issue of CCNews Published
The Summer 2011 issue of the CCTE newsletter is now available here on the website. This link will take you directly to the new issue.
Information from Spring 2011 Conference
A Wide range of information from the CCTE Spring 2011 Conference is available on a special page of this website. Click here to go directly to that webpage.
CCTE 2010 Policy Initiative
The CCTE 2010 Policy Initiative that evolved from the Fall 2010 Conference is now also available on the website, either by clicking here on going to the Policy Resoures section.
Membership in the California Council on Teacher Education can be either institutional or individual. Colleges and universities with credential programs, professional organizations with interests in the preparation of teachers, school districts and public agencies in the field of education, and individuals involved in or concerned about the field are encouraged to join. Membership entitles one to participation in semi-annual spring and fall conferences, subscription to Teacher Education Quarterly and Issues in Teacher Education, newsletters on timely issues, an informal network for sharing sound practices in teacher education, and involvement in annual awards and recognitions in the field.