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Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2025 Annual Meeting Online Planner. Click on the links to the left to view the conference schedule. For additional information about the conference, please visit  https://aacte.org/events/annual-meeting/.

Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, February 19, 2025
  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST
    Holmes Scholars Preconference
  • Thursday, February 20, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST
    Diversified Teacher Workforce (DTW) Preconference
  • 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM PST
    AILACTE Meeting
  • 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM PST
    Holmes Scholars Preconference
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Meeting
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    NACCTEP Preconference
  • 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST
    TESCU 2025 Winter Meeting
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST
    PAC on Innovation & Technology Business Meeting
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PST
    PAC on Meetings and Professional Development Business Meeting
  • 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    PAC on Educator Diversity (PACED) Business Meeting
  • 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST
    Registration Hours
  • 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM PST
    AILACTE Reception
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Internationalizing Teacher Education (ITE) TAG Annual Business Meeting
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    PAC on Research & Dissemination Business Meeting
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Holmes Scholars Career Fair
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    PAC on Government Relations and Advocacy
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST
    Improving STEM Teacher Preparation TAG Business Meeting
  • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM PST
    AACTE Awards Receptions (invitation only)
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST
    National Association of Holmes Scholar Alumni (NAHSA) Townhall
  • 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST
    Georgia State University/Teacher Quality Partnership Grant
  • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST
    AACTE Awards Ceremony (invitation only)
  • 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM PST
    AACTE Past Presidents and Chairs Reception (invitation only)
  • Friday, February 21, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PST
    Holmes Preconference (cont.)
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM PST
    Registration Hours
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PST
    Opening Keynote: Beyond the Horizon
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Department Heads, Chairs, and Directors TAG Business Meeting
  • 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM PST
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Brunch in Expo Hall
  • 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM PST
    AILACTE Meeting (cont.)
  • 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM PST
    Sage Update on the Publishing Landscape
  • 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM PST
    SCHOLARLY PAPER: Fostering reflective teaching: A video protocol rooted in critical inquiry
  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM PST
    Holmes Dissertation Funding Competition
  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM PST
    Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) Meet-n-Greet
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Analyzing preparation for leadership in teacher education
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Education Policy and Advocacy in an Era of Inequity
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Empowering Holmes Scholars: Navigating Predominantly White Spaces
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Investigating the Influence of Speech Disorders on Creativity in Preschoolers.
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Navigating Through Inevitable Change
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Poster Presentations
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Preparing AI Competencies for Future Workforce: Analysis National AI Strategies
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Recruitment to Retention: Comprehensive Approaches for Sustaining Future Educators
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Setting Sail for Success: Educator Dispositions as the Captain's Compass
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Strengthening Instructional Leadership in K-12 Educational Preparation Programs
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Structured Literacy Breakthrough: EOU’s Reading Clinic Leads the Way
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Teachers Turning to TikTok: A Study on Teacherpreneurs’ Leadership
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Technology Improving Women’s Access to Teacher Preparation in MENA
  • 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM PST
    Promoting initial teacher education programs grounded in equity
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PST
    Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity Luncheon (invitation only)
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    "Teacher autonomy impact on United States teacher retention and shortage".
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Advancing Global Education: Research, Dialogue, and Innovation in Educator Preparation
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    AI Supported Teaching Rehearsals: Measuring Technology Innovations Impact
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Breaking barriers: Innovative pathways to teaching increase access & diversity
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Caught Between the Push & Pull: How to Navigate Competing Priorities as an EPP Leader
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Empowering Educators: Trauma Informed Instruction for Refugee Multilingual Learners
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Equity and Policy Learnings from Community College Teacher Preparation Leaders
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Equity as a Verb: Adaptive Leadership for Access and Quality
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Integrating Trauma-Informed Education in Pre-Service Teacher Preparation Programs
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Mandates and Practices for LGBT K-12 Inclusion
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Navigating culture, legislation, institutional initiatives within a rural EPP
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Partnership Power: A Yearlong University-School Coteaching Induction Program
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Registered Apprenticeships 101: Learning from Early Care and Education Models
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Special Education Cooperating Teachers Perspectives on Teacher Education Programs
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Teaching the Teachers: Bridging the Gap Between Pedagogy and Professionalism
  • 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM PST
    Dean's Listening Session with AACTE President & CEO Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy
  • 12:15 PM – 12:35 PM PST
    Black Female Educators and STEM-centered Success for Black Girls
  • 12:15 PM – 12:35 PM PST
    Promoting Teacher Self-Advocacy When Implementing Multiculturalism and Antiracism
  • 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
    Post-Election Analysis: Prospects for Education Policy
  • 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
    Rethinking High School: New Resources to Challenge Outdated Assumptions
  • 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    ACSR Executive Committee Orientation
  • 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Afternoon Break
  • 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM PST
    Coaching with purpose: Using AI to unleash the potential of remote asynchronous video observations
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST
    Co-teaching in P through 20 TAG Annual Business Meeting
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Advisory Council of State Representatives: State Policy Resources and Leadership
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Building Foundations: STEM Approaches for Early Childhood Preservice Teachers
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for Preservice and Inservice Teachers
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Developing a Bilingual & Special Education Teacher Residency Program
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Empowering Teacher Learning through Self-Directed Learning and Micro-Credentialing
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Enduring Leadership in Challenging Educational Structures
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Flipping the Script on Reading Science: Transforming Pre-Service Teacher Education
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Implementing Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (Plan B) with Teacher Candidates
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Leadership Innovations that Seed Postsecondary Success for Future Teachers
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Leading through liminality: Associate deans and leaders in unprecedented times
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Moral orientation resolving ethical dilemmas: Implications for pre-service training
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Navigating Research for Educator Preparation: EdPrepLab's Resource Repository
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Overcoming barriers to undergraduate research in teacher education
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Pre-Service Teachers, Self-Care, and Social Media
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    PULSE Scholars' experiences with state legislative changes: Case stories
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Recruiting and retaining special educators: Strategies from residency programs
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Replacing EdTPA: Action Research for Equity and Justice
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Roundtable Discussions (Friday)
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Stories of Emergency Licensed Teachers of Color
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Supporting Neurodivergent Pre-Service Teachers
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM PST
    AACTE Opening Reception
  • Saturday, February 22, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM PST
    Registration Hours
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM PST
    Empowering Educator Preparation Programs: Leveraging the 5 Shifts and Candidate Personas to Impact the Educator Shortage - Part I
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM PST
    Evaluating and Improving Teacher Preparation Programs: Consensus Recommendations
  • 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM PST
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Brunch in Expo Hall
  • 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM PST
    SCHOLARLY PAPER: AI Integration in Higher Education: Ethical Challenges and Policy Recommendations
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    A Critical Pedagogy: Including Hmong People in Mental Health Education
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Broadening Computer Science Participation in Kindergarten through Capacity Building
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Critical look into children's racial identity work in 4th grade
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Cultivating Change in the Preparation Divide in Early Reading Instruction
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Hawkins Affinity Group Meeting
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Helping Candidates Recognize & Understand Disability as an Intersecting Identity
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Humanizing Frameworks to Support Teacher Candidates of Color
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Innovative Teacher Support: The 4+1 Year Education Cohort Advising Model
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Linking the Recruitment and Retention of Science Teachers
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Navigating Teacher Candidate Resistance to Culturally Relevant Instruction
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Poster Presentations
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Pre-service teacher engagement with everyday geography leading to active citizenship
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Preservice Teachers' Views and Experiences on AI in IEP Development
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Registered apprenticeship project: Increasing profession ready educators in Texas
  • 10:45 AM – 11:05 AM PST
    SCHOLARLY PAPER: Preservice Teachers’ Perspectives on Planning with Generative AI
  • 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM PST
    SCHOLARL PAPER: Leveraging Legislation to Reimagine Teacher Certification Testing
  • 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM PST
    SCHOLARLY PAPER: Dismantling Structural Ableism in Teacher Prep: Identifying Harmful Ideologies
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    A retrospective of a paraprofessional-to-special educator Grow Your Own program
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    A Study of Generation Z’s Interest in the Teaching Profession
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Apprenticeship Innovation: Addressing Shortages, Diversity, and High-need Areas
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Centering Equity and Including Race: Trauma-Informed Program for Teacher Residents
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Creating a Social Justice Throughline in a Teacher Preparation Program
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    EPP-P12 Leadership: A two-way street or intricate highway system?
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Harnessing the Power of Generative AI in Educator Preparation: Opportunities, Challenges, Equity and Ethics
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Leveraging Innovation and Partnerships to Increase Educator Diversity: Hawkins-Funded Programs Two Years In 
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Meeting Diverse Needs: Lessons in Adapting Teacher Education Programs
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Navigating Teacher-Family Relationships: A Toolkit for Teacher Preparation
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Project UNITE: An Innovative and Collaborative School-University Partnership Model to Promote Teacher Preparation for Urban Education
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Promoting a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens Among Education Faculty
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Research-informed teacher recruitment strategies
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Science of Reading Reshapes Literacy Education: Mandates Challenge Teacher Agency
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Teacher Residencies attract teacher candidates with culturally relevant preparation
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Teaching with Pride: Exploring LGBTQ+ Histories through Primary Sources
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    The Best Kept Secret to Recruiting Diverse Teachers: Community Colleges
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Using a democratizing approach to distribute leadership in a TPP
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PST
    Why educators enjoy the profession: Recruitment and attrition implications.
  • 12:15 PM – 12:35 PM PST
    SCHOLARLY PAPER: Playful Pathways: Innovative Pedagogies to Cultivate Pre-Service Teacher SEL
  • 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM PST
    Transition Break
  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM PST
    Empowering Students of Color as Future Teachers: Effective Support Strategies
  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM PST
    SCHOLARLY PAPAER: Impacting mentor teachers: An instrument to identify mentor characteristics
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    A Loving Critique of Racial Justice Teacher Education: Research Revelations
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Building Sustainable Teacher Residencies: Strategic Staffing Possibilities
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Clearing an Equitable Licensure Pathway for Paraeducators: Three Paras’ Journeys
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Developing Educator Emotional Competence to Reduce Burnout and Attrition
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Developing Preservice Teachers’ Professional Behaviors Using Stakeholder Feedback
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Immersed in success: ASU’s game-changing approach to clinical experiences
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Leveraging Accreditation Standards to Build Partnerships
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Leveraging AI to Enhance Program Continuous Improvement and Accreditation
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Leveraging Generative AI for Innovative Course Design in Teacher Education
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Making Thinking Visible: Creative Thinking Journals in Professional Learning
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Preparing Educators for an AI integrated World: Strategies and Insights
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Roundtable Discussions (Saturday)
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Rural Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Pressing challenges and promising practices
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Scaling and sustaining effective apprentice school-university partnerships.
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    TECSCU Leaders Discuss Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities in Educator Preparation
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Together We Grow: The Future of Teaching Recruitment & Preparation
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    Transforming ECE: Innovative Integration of Early Childhood and Special Education
  • 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Afternoon Break
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    AACTE Leadership Update
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Journal of Teacher Education Reception
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Continuing the Conversation: Practical Applications for Harnessing the Power of Generative AI in Educator Preparation
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Empowering Educator Preparation Programs: Leveraging the 5 Shifts and Candidate Personas to Impact the Educator Shortage - Part II
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Federal Update: The Trump Administration, a new Congress, and Implications for EPPs
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Launching and Sustaining a Holmes Program at Your University: Building Pathways for Diverse Educational Leaders
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Transforming Teacher Residencies through Community Engagement
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST
    Advisory Council of State Representatives (ACSR) Reception
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST
    California State University (CSU) Networking Event
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST
    Deans for Impact Reception
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST
    Edthena
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST
    NACCTEP Reception
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST
    Temple University College of Education and Human Development Reception
  • Sunday, February 23, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 10:00 AM PST
    Registration Hours
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PST
    Closing Keynote: How the Word is Passed
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Closing Keynote: Clint Smith, Ph.D. book signing
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST
    (OPTIONAL) Coffee Roundtables
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    PAC on Meetings and Professional Development Debrief Business Meeting