**U.S. Department of Education**

**Teacher Preparation Issues Negotiating Committee**

**Meeting Summary**

**February 27 - 29, 2012**

**Review and Adopt Meeting Summary**

The draft meeting summary from the January 2012 meeting was reviewed and accepted.

**Review Proposed Meeting Agenda**

The committee members approved the meeting agenda. 

# Membership 

The following Primary and Alternate negotiators were present.

**Constituency PrimaryAlternate**

**Membership Adjustments**

Scott Thompson, the Primary Negotiator for the School and LEA Officials constituency, resigned from the committee in the interim between the first and second meeting.  Thalia Nawi, Alternate for this constituency, assumed the Primary Negotiator position.

**Review Agenda of Issues**

The committee reviewed and discussed the list of agenda items.  The Agenda of Issues was accepted (see below). 

**Review of Issues**

Negotiators participated in discussions on the Issues listed below.

Issue 7 - Service and repayment obligations for the TEACH Grant Program: Teaching service performed for an Educational Service Agency

Issue 8 - Teaching in a high-need field to fulfill the TEACH Grant Agreement to Serve

Issue 9 - Eligibility for a new TEACH Grant after receiving a discharge of the TEACH Grant agreement to serve based on total and permanent disability

Issue 10 - Discharge of the TEACH Grant agreement to serve based on the total and permanent disability of a TEACH Grant recipient

Draft regulatory text for Part 612 (the discussion of various provisions of the draft regulatory text, notably the definitions in draft Section 612.2 and the criteria that a State must use to report on teacher preparation program performance in draft Section 612.5 ).  During this discussion, a caucus of non-federal negotiators proposed adding three input measures to the outcome criteria in draft Section 612.5.  These criteria were Quality and Depth of Clinical Preparation, Candidate Content and Pedagogical Knowledge, and Candidate Qualifications.

Issue 6 - Definition of “high quality teacher preparation program”

Tentative consensus was reached on Issues 7, 9, and 10.

# Public Comment

Opportunities were provided for the public to provide comments were provided at the end of each day of the meeting.  One public comment was received at the end of the first day of the meeting.

**Logistics**

The third session of the Teacher Preparation Negotiating Committee is scheduled for Tuesday through Thursday, April 3 – 5, 2012, with the following schedule:

# Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

# Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

# Thursday, April 5, 2012, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

# The session will be held at the U.S. Department of Education in the 8th Floor Conference Center located at 1990 K St. NW in Washington, D.C.

**Next Steps**

A group of non-federal negotiators agreed to caucus in the interim between sessions two and three to develop definitions for the input measures proposed for addition to draft Section 612.5.  Jim Cibulka, primary representative for Accrediting Agencies, agreed to coordinate the caucus. Prior to the next meeting, the Department will provide the agenda for the third meeting and draft regulatory text to the committee that reflects the workshop discussions of the second session.  The facilitators will distribute the Draft Meeting Summary of the second meeting.

**Draft – 2/17/2012**

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