The National Commission on Teaching and America 's Future (NCTAF) hosted an invitational meeting, Quality Teacher Preparation: Assessment of Teacher Preparation Effectiveness, at Alverno College in Milwaukee , Wisconsin on September 30- October 1, 2005 . This meeting was one of two scheduled as follow-up to NCTAF's June 2004 Summit on High Quality Teacher Preparation. (The other follow-up meeting focused on strong academic preparation for teaching and convened in August 2005 at the George Washington University , in Washington , DC .) These meetings were sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York .

Six institutions participated in the Wisconsin meeting, including: Alverno College, California State University, Long Beach, Georgia State University, Indiana State University, Montclair State University, and Western Kentucky University. Each institution put together a seven-member team consisting of campus representatives (including either the president or provost and the deans of education and arts and sciences), two state-level policymakers and two district-level practitioners.

Meeting Materials:

• Read the meeting summary;
• The meeting agenda;
• The list of meeting participants;
• A self-assessment tool;
• An executive summary of NCTAF's 2004 Summit on High Quality Teacher Preparation;
• A paper describing NCTAF's recommendations for action; and
• Download the background materials used for the meeting.

Presentations from Meeting Sessions:

• Assessing the Impact of Teacher Preparation.

• New Mexico's New Three-Tiered Licensure System and Its Implications for Assessing Teacher Preparation Effectiveness.
• Partnering to Assess Teacher Preparation Effectiveness: The Long Beach Education Partnership.
• Teacher Work Samples and Performance Accountability Systems at Western Kentucky University.

Background Papers Submitted for Concurrent and Plenary Sessions:

• Partnering to Assess Beginning Teachers: The Long Beach Education Partnership, submitted by the Cal State University, Long Beach team.
• Quality Teacher Preparation: A Georgia Plan for the Assessment of Program Effectiveness, submitted by the Georgia State University team.
• Strategies for Collaborative (PK-16) Assessment of Teacher Candidates During Teacher Preparation: Perspectives from the Milwaukee Partnership Academy, submitted by the Alverno College team.
• Strategies for Collaborative Assessment of Graduates' Impact on their Students: From the Milwaukee Partnership Academy, submitted by the Alverno College team.
• New Mexico's New Three-Tiered Licensure System and Its Implications for Assessing Teacher Preparation Effectiveness, submitted by presenters from New Mexico.
• Teacher Work Samples and Performance Accountability Systems: Key Strategies for Improving and Documenting Performance at Western Kentucky University, submitted by the Western Kentucky University team.
• The Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership, submitted by Robert J. Yinger, Research Director, Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership, University of Cincinnati.