SCALE is pleased to announce that registration for our 10th annual conference on teacher performance assessment is now open! The 2017 National edTPA Implementation Conference will convene Friday, November 3rd – Sunday, November 5, 2017, at the Hilton and Convention Center in San Jose, California.

We also are excited to announce that Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, will deliver the featured keynote address on November 4th.

Please join us in celebrating our 10th annual conference on teacher performance assessment. The conference is open to P-12 partners, higher education administrators, faculty and supervisors and state education agencies who are seeking to network within a learning community of teachers and teacher educators, deepen their understanding of edTPA and discuss issues such as sustaining teachers across a career continuum.

Click here to review the schedule, register, and submit proposals. See you in November!

The 2017-2018 edTPA portfolio submission and score reporting schedule has been posted on edtpa.com. This schedule includes a three-week turnaround time for score reporting in all 27 edTPA handbooks and is applicable to candidates registering for initial submissions, as well as to candidates registering for a partial- or full-assessment retake.

We are pleased to release the list of changes from 2016-2017 Handbooks to 2017-2018 Handbooks. There are no generic changes to the edTPA handbooks and only minor changes for the following fields:

• Classical Languages,
• Elementary Education,
• Elementary Literacy,
• Literacy Specialist,
• Special Education, and
• World Language.