On October 19-21, 2018, the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity and AACTE will host the annual edTPA Implementation Conference for the edTPA consortium in the San Francisco Bay Area. The edTPA conference is an annual multi-day gathering of higher education administrators, faculty and supervisors, state education agencies and P-12 community members who are seeking to deepen their understanding of teacher performance assessment and network within a learning community of edTPA users.

The conference includes a keynote, welcome session, concurrent sessions, a plenary policy panel, and an evening reception. Attendees will have great opportunities to exchange ideas about edTPA implementation with a common goal of supporting candidates and teacher education programs with an educative experience related to examining evidence of learning and practice. This year’s conference will also include a focus on the performance assessment occurring internationally. We look forward to seeing you in October! Stay tuned for more information.

2018 edTPA Southeastern Regional Conference
Pre-Conference: April 5, 2018
Conference: April 6-7, 2018
Location: Renaissance Ross Bridge Gold Resort and Spa, Birmingham, Alabama
Click here to review the agenda and register.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 3, 2017
Contact: Adam Bradley, 301-656-0348  Adam@thehatchergroup.com

WASHINGTON – Nov. 3, 2017 – A newly released public report on the third full year of edTPA implementation provides a detailed picture to date of edTPA’s continued expansion and support as the first nationally available performance-based assessment and support system for teacher licensure, program completion and accreditation. Nearly 35,000 candidate portfolios are included in the findings, and analyses are presented in the report to reaffirm reliability and consistency of scoring, examine evidence of validity and document trends in candidate performance by demographic group.

Growing Use of edTPA

edTPA, exclusively owned by Stanford University and developed by educators for educators, has been used operationally to assess teacher candidates since fall 2013; it is now used by educator preparation programs in 40 states. Membership in the edTPA online community, first launched in 2011, has grown to about 9,700 faculty from more than 750 educator preparation programs, the report notes. The extensive support infrastructure available to edTPA members includes more than 170 resources that have been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times.