Virginia, national experts to address teacher quality ar VCU education lecture April 28

By Mike Frontiero and Particia Bryant
VCU School of Education

WHAT:            State and national education experts will discuss the federal, state and local impact on teacher quality, and how it is affected by accreditation at the first John S. Oehler Lecture for Education Leadership, sponsored by the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education.

Oehler, Ed.D., was dean of the School of Education for 14 years until he stepped down in June 2001 to return to the classroom. He currently is a professor of Teaching and Learning at the School.

For more information about the lecture, go to http://www.soe.vcu.edu/news/JOehlerLecture.htm.

WHO:                      – David Imig, Ph.D., president of the American Association of
                                   Colleges for Teacher Education

– Frank Murray, Ph.D., president of the Teacher Education
   Accreditation Council

– Arthur Wise, Ph.D., president of the National Council for the
   Accreditation of Teacher Education

– Billy K. Cannaday, Jr., Ed.D., superintendent for Chesterfield
   County Public Schools

WHEN:            Wednesday, April 28 from 12 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

WHERE:         University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave., Richmond, Va.