Dr. Mark LaCelle-Peterson of AAQEP

Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation, AAQEP, President and CEO Dr. Mark LaCelle-Peterson joins us in this episode to discuss how AAQEP's success to date plays a role in updating their accreditation standards for the next seven years. Dr. LaCelle-Peterson shares with NACCTEP Executive Director Julie Ferin how feedback from programs that have been accredited has helped to shape the standards for 2025. The updated standards include language that more fully defines all the types of programs that can qualify for AAQEP accreditation. He also includes why he feels that the non-traditional students in many community college programs have as much value as those students in a traditional, direct from high school to college, program. For more information, please visit aaqep.org.