Report of the Wingspread Conference: Preparing Teachers to Work with Diverse Learners

Abstract

The need to enhance our efforts in preparing teachers for diversity is widely recognized across many educational fronts. Educational organizations with a vested interest in teacher preparation have mobilized to address this need. There are, however, few collaborative efforts across organizations to address this important task, The Wingspread Conference described in this paper was designed to be one step in the process of forging interorganizational alliances to promote teacher preparation for diversity. The goal of this conference was to establish a set of guiding principles and suggested actions that could be embraced and cooperatively supported by all participating organizations.

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