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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 Primary Alternate

Postsecondary 

students

Eric Mann

Student teacher

Sandpoint High School

Idaho

Eric Gregoire

Student

Boston University School of Education

Candidate for Master of Education in 

Policy, Planning and Administration

Teachers Katie Hartley

Middle School Math Teacher and 

Value Added Specialist Miami East 

Junior High

Ohio 

Qualyn McIntyre

Teacher in Residence

Atlanta Urban Teacher Residency

Organizations 

representing 

teachers and 

teacher 

educators

Segun Eubanks

Director, Teacher Quality 

Department, National Education 

Association

James Alouf

President

Association of Teacher Educators

Financial aid 

administrators 

at 

postsecondary 

Joseph Pettibon 

Associate Vice President for 

Academic Services

Texas A&M University 

David Smedley 

Associate Director

Compliance and Training Office of 

Student Financial Assistance
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institutions The George Washington University

Business 

officers and 

bursars at 

postsecondary 

institutions

Julie Karns 

Vice President for Finance

Rider University 

Karl Brockenbrough

Vice President for Administration and 

Finance

Bowie State University 

State officials George Noell

Professor, School of Psychology 

Louisiana State University 

Vance Rugaard

Executive Director 

Tennessee Office of Licensing

Two-year 

public 

institutions

Glenn DuBois

Chancellor of Virginia’s Community 

Colleges 

Ray Ostos

Director, National Center for Teacher 

Education, Maricopa Community 

College 

Four-year 

public 

institutions

David Steiner

Dean, Hunter College School of 

Education 

Ronald Marx 

Dean

College of Education

University of Arizona 

Private 

nonprofit 

institutions

David Prasse

Dean of the School of Education, 

Loyola University Chicago 

Mary Kay Delaney 

Head of Department of Education

Meredith College 

Private forprofit 

institutions

Meredith Curley 

Dean

College of Education University of 

Phoenix

Bonnie Copeland 

Vice President, Education and 

Regulation, Walden University 

Tribal 

Institutions

Cindy O’Dell 

Chair, Education Department; 

Instructor, Early Childhood and 

Elementary Education Salish 

Kootenai College 

HBCUs Leontye Lewis 

Dean of Education 

Fayetteville State University 

VerJanis Peoples 

Dean of Education 

Southern University of LA
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HSIs Beverly Young

Assistant Vice Chancellor Academic 

Affairs 

California State University System 

Michael Morehead

Dean

College of Education

New Mexico State University

Operators of 

programs for 

alternative 

routes to 

teacher 

certification

Heather Harding

Vice President of Research and 

Public Affairs, Teach for America 

Diann Huber

President

iteachU.S. 

Accrediting 

agencies

Jim Cibulka

President

National Council for the 

Accreditation of Teacher Education 

and the Council for Accreditation of 

Education Preparation 

Frank Murray

H. Rodney Sharp Professor, University 

of Delaware; Chair of the Board of 

Directors of Teacher Education 

Accreditation Council and the Council 

for the Accreditation of Educator 

Preparation

Elementary 

and Secondary 

Students and 

Parents

Sarah Almy

Director of Teacher Quality, the 

Education Trust 

Charmaine Mercer 

Director of Policy and Research 

Communities for Teaching Excellence 

School and LEA 

officials

U.S. 

Department of 

Education

Sophia McArdle

Thalia Nawi 

Director

Denver Teacher Residency

Denver Public Schools

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 

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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.
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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.