Greetings CPED Members,

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope the New Year has brought more than cold and snow to each of you and promises to be full of great things!

As you know, we’ll be holding a CPED meeting at AACTE on February 19^th for those of you who can attend. The meeting will take place in the Hilton Hotel, Room 210 from 10:00am-12:00pm.  In preparation for this meeting, we have prepared the following goals and agenda. In addition, we ask that you complete the short assignments (below) to facilitate the agenda.

Goals & Agenda

Our meeting will have three goals:

1.     To establish the Research & Development agenda for CPED Phase II.

a.     Examine institutional research statements (see assignments)

b.     Discussion of successes and challenges of working with PPDEs

2.     Gather input on governance structures and membership criteria.

3.     Learn about and allow time for collaboration on current research projects

Assignments

1.     Prepare a one-page proposal that indicates how your institution is prepared to research the six Principles of the Professional Practice Doctorate that were determined at the October 2009 convening. Please email to Jill (jillaperry@cpedinitiative.org) by February 15^th.

2.     Prepare a statement or two about the accomplishments or challenges that your institution has experienced around introducing/incorporating the principles into practice with your programs. Please email to Jill by February 15^th.

3.     If you or your colleagues have generating any current research around your work with the EdD redesign or CPED, please bring information about this project and email the info to Jill by February 15^th to be posted on our website.