Annual Reports & Newsletters
2024-2025 Annual Report
Comprehensive overview of CITE's achievements, initiatives, and impact during the 2024-2025 academic year.
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2023-2024 Annual Report
Comprehensive overview of CITE's achievements, initiatives, and impact during the 2023-2024 academic year.
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2022-2023 Annual Report
Highlighting our collaborative efforts, research outcomes, and professional development initiatives for the year.
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2021-2022 Annual Report
Documenting our progress in advancing teacher education through research, practice, and partnerships.
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Newsletter - January 2023
The Collaborative's footprint: Updates on projects, events, and scholarly contributions from our community.
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Preparing Teachers to Teach the STEM Disciplines in America's Urban Schools
Craig, C. J., Evans, P. K., Stokes, D. W., House, H., & Lane, W. (Eds.). (2021). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Bridging a gap in the literature by offering a comprehensive look at how STEM teacher education programs evolve over time, this book explores teachHOUSTON, a designer teacher education program created to respond to the lack of adequately prepared STEM teachers in Houston and the emerging urban school districts that surround it.
Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement
Ratnam, T. & Craig, C. J. (Eds.). (2021). Emerald Publishing Limited.
This book develops a significant body of professional knowledge by providing a deeper and sympathetic understanding of what manifests itself as 'excessive entitlement'. The volume presents a theoretical framework within which one can investigate and articulate issues and helps those concerned with education and teacher education internationally to get a sense of the complexities surrounding teachers' work.
Curriculum Making, Reciprocal Learning, and the Best-Loved Self
Craig, C. J. (2020). Springer International Publishing.
Revolving around curriculum making, reciprocal learning, and the best-loved self, this book draws on extensive school-based studies conducted with teachers in the United States, China, and Canada, and weaves in experiences from other cross-national projects, keynote addresses, archival research, and editorial work.
Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Teacher Education
Craig, C. J., Turchi, L., & McDonald, D. M. (Eds.). (2020). Palgrave Macmillan.
This book focuses on the impact of sustained and evolving collaborations, showcasing research and scholarship in a faculty group consisting of 28 professors from five regional universities meeting and supporting each other since 2002.
Knowledge Communities in Teacher Education: Sustaining Collaborative Work
Craig, C. J., Curtis, G. A., Kelley, M., Martindell, P. T., & Pérez, M. M. (2020). Springer Nature.
This book traces the origins and activities of the longest-standing collaborative teacher group in education, the Portfolio Group. Each chapter documents, historically and conceptually, the main intellectual moments in the evolution of the idea of knowledge communities.
Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making
Asadi, L. & Craig, C. (Eds.). (2020). Information Age Publishing.
This book arises from a serial interpretation of five published narrative inquiries that pinpointed complexities lived in a teacher knowledge community and addresses issues in curriculum and instruction, such as the lack of Black teachers, minority representation, and mentorship.
International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies (Parts A, B, C)
Craig, C. J., & Orland-Barak, L. (Eds.). (2014). Emerald Group Publishing.
This focuses on the practical (Schwab, 1969), matters that have been locally deliberated and enacted. Pedagogies are named, origins (cultural, practical, theoretical, policy roots) are traced and a live example of the pedagogy unfurling in the local setting is presented from an insider-view.
Featured Presentations & Lectures
Learning to Educate All Students: Post-Pandemic Pedagogy
Speaker: Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings
Date: March 28, 2023
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, a fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, shares her insight on post-pandemic pedagogy in this impactful lecture.
The "Problem" of Teacher Education: Tensions and Trends
Speaker: Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Date: March 29, 2023
Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith shares her research and perspective on the issues affecting teacher education in this Dean's Distinguished Lecture.
Dialogues in Transforming Education
Speakers: Drs. Gloria Ladson-Billings and Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Moderator: Dr. Cheryl Craig
Date: March 29, 2023
Renowned experts in teacher education discuss navigating through K-12 teaching in this engaging conversation.
Turning Points in Research and Life: The Peripeteia of Our Times
Event: Keynote Address at 7th International Forum on Teacher Education
Date: May 26, 2021
A compelling keynote exploring pivotal moments in educational research and their implications for teacher education.
Writing Research Articles & Getting Published
Event: 7th International Forum on Teacher Education
Date: May 26-28, 2021
Practical guidance on navigating the academic publishing process for teacher education researchers.
First Generation College Students Who Became Professors of Education
Event: AACTE Virtual Conference
Date: February 24-26, 2021
Experiential insights for championing inclusiveness, equity and excellence in marginalized learners.
Publishing in JTE: Meet the New Editorial Team
Event: AACTE Virtual Conference
Date: February 24-26, 2021
Introduction to the Journal of Teacher Education's new editorial vision and submission guidelines.
Lost or Found in Translation? Translating Educational Research into Practice
Speaker: Lily Orland-Barak, Ph.D., University of Haifa
Date: November 8, 2022
Exploring the challenges and promises of translating educational research into classroom practice.
Creating Liberatory Literacy Spaces with BIPOC Students
Speaker: Kimberly N. Parker, Ph.D., Harvard University
Date: January 25, 2023
Examining approaches to creating empowering literacy environments for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color students.
The Parts and the Whole: Preparing Manuscripts for Publication
Speaker: Dr. Cheryl J. Craig
Event: Paths to Publications 2023 Workshop
Date: February 9, 2023
Comprehensive guidance on preparing scholarly manuscripts for publication in academic journals.