As chair of the Carnegie Corporation’s Education Division, Daniel Fallon oversees the Corporation’s grant-making efforts to improve educational achievement from preschool through the post-secondary level. Most recently he initiated Teachers for a New Era, a program to develop excellent teacher education programs at selected colleges and universities. Teachers for a New Era calls for bold reforms in current teacher education models. Key among the design features is a focus on the extent of pupil learning brought about by good teaching and on teaching as clinical practice.
Teachers for a New Era stresses the importance of formal collaboration between schools of education, traditional arts and sciences faculty and principals and classroom teachers.

Grants up to $5 million for a period of five years were awarded to selected institutions on recommendations from a national advisory panel of experts. Institutions selected will develop methods of evaluating the effectiveness of their programs by calibrating the teaching success of their graduates. California State University-Northridge, Michigan State University, the University of Virginia, and Bank Street College of Education were independently chosen by a panel of experts after a national review of teacher education programs with the potential to become national models. One year later, seven additional institutions were designated TNE schools in a second round of competition: Boston College, Florida A&M University, the University of Connecticut, Stanford University, the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Washington, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. (See Teachers for a New Era)

Dan Fallon joined the Carnegie Corporation staff in August 2000 from the University of Maryland at College Park where he assumed the post of Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost in 1993. Before that he was dean at the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A & M.

CHEA, the Council on Higher Education Accreditation, is the largest institutional higher education membership organization in the United States with approximately 3,000 colleges and universities. It is a national voice for voluntary accreditation and quality assurance to U.S. Congress and the U.S. Department of Education. CHEA also is considered a national leader in identifying and articulating emerging issues in quality assurance. Judith Watkins, CHEA Vice President for Accreditation Services, will bring a national accreditation perspective and its impact on teacher education programs.

An update on TEAC's efforts with state departments of education, new state agreements, TEAC's recent publications, and other membership information.

Established and maintained by the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo, NYLearns is a standards-based educational website that offers resources to enhance teaching and learning. Educators can participate in a virtual community that allows them to access curriculum and content and share educational resources such as learning experiences, activities, and best practices and strategies. Michael Horning, Educational Content Manager for NYLearns, will demonstrate this new educational initiative.

The Annual Meeting fee covers session materials and break:
$50 per person for TEAC members (Candidate or Affiliate)
$75 per person for non-members