Warehouse of work support materials

SUPPORT MATERIALS PACKET 1. A ___________, 2004 mailing that included a suggested agenda, and accompanying materials for review at the ad hoc meeting scheduled during the 2005 AACTE Annual Conference.

SUPPORT MATERIALS PACKET 2. An April 18, 2005 mailing that provided a summary of decisions reached in the AACTE ad hoc meeting, and introductory materials pertaining to the upcoming work session in July.

SUPPORT MATERIALS PACKET 3. A July 6, 2005 mailing of supplementary materials that framed the forthcoming work session, a detailed agenda for the 3-day session, and accompanying materials for review and refinement during the session.

SUPPORT MATERIALS PACKET 4. A July 16, 2005 mailing for "on the plane reading" supplementary materials intended to provide additional clarity and focus to the July 25-27 work session.

SUPPORT MATERIALS PACKET 5. A November 2, 2005 follow-up mailing to the summer work session that summarized decisions made and began laying a foundation for the January 29, 2006 work session preceding the Annual AACTE Conference. The mailing included an alert to materials beginning to be developed for review and refinement in the January work session, and announced the creation of a DISCUSSION BOARD at the www.cctpl.org site to facilitate information exchanges around work in progress.

SUPPORT MATERIALS PACKET 6. A December 10, 2005 mailing which framed the January 29, 2006 work session, and included a first set of accompanying materials for review and refinement during the session.

SUPPORT MATERIALS PACKET 7. A January 22, 2006 confirmatory mailing regarding the January 29 work session, a detailed agenda for the session, and an additional set of materials for review and refinement.

SUPPORT MATERIALS PACKET 8. An April ___ follow-up mailing to the January 2006 work session that summarized decisions made, the discussion and underlying rationale, and began laying a foundation for the Summer 2006 work session.

SUPPORT MATERIALS SUPPLEMENT A. A draft of a paper that CTPL participant and mentor Ed Crowe forwarded for consideration during the January 29 work session by Paul R. Carlile in the School of Management at Boston University and Clayton M. Christensen in the Harvard Business School titled "Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research". The paper is both confirming and supplementary to the framework for theory building in the social sciences outlined by Shoenmaker, Tankerd and Lasorsa (2005) that had guided the work of the Coalition to this point.

SUPPORT MATERIALS SUPPLEMENT B. CTPL Coalition Progress Report #1, titled "Connecting Teaching, Teacher Preparation, and K-12 Learning: Theory and Method" (April, 2006).

SUPPORT MATERIALS SUPPLEMENT C. CTPL Coalition Progress Report #2, titled "Establishing Scientific Foundation for Teaching as a Profession: Progress Toward a Logic of Inquiry" (May, 2006).

A collective effort by a voluntary assembly of teacher preparation institutions and agencies committed to establishing a scientific foundation for connecting teaching, teacher preparation, and P-12 learning, and developing means for translating that foundation into evidence-based teacher preparation programs. For convenience, those participaing in this work have referred to it as the "CTPL theory development initiative", and refer to themselves as "members of the CTPL Coalition", though as yet no formally constituted organization by that name exists.