Shirley Lefever, dean of WSU's College of Education, has been named to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's (AACTE) new Clinical Practice Commission (CPC). Lefever joins the group of higher education and K-12 leaders from across the country, which will examine the state of clinical practice (commonly known as "field experience") in teacher preparation. CPC is charged with identifying a set of criteria that define clinical practice, lifting up exemplary models in the field and ultimately publishing a set of recommendations for teacher preparation programs nationwide. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?4964 for more information.
