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Additional Professional Associations
An active researcher and also a teacher education practitioner
in the national and international educational communities, Dr. Cochran-Smith
is an active member of a number of professional organizations.
American Educational Research Association
Cochran-Smith is Immediate Past-President of the American
Educational Research Association (AERA).
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with AERA.
American Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education
Dr. Cochran-Smith has been actively involved in the American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education for many years.
For more than 20 years, she has been a
regular presenter and participant at the annual conference of the association.
She is currently the editor of AACTE's major publication, The Journal of
Teacher Education, which makes its institutional home at the Lynch School
of Education at Boston College. As editor of the journal, Dr. Cochran-Smith
heads a 9-member
editorial group--all members of the Lynch School Teacher Education faculty--who
work collaboratively to design, edit, and produce the journal five times each
year. In her capacity as editor,
Dr.Cochran-Smith has organized and chaired
a "JTE Major Forum" for the past 3 years at the AACTE annual conference
and has also brought greetings to the association from JTE and from AERA/Division
K. In the fall of 2000 and 2003, Dr. Cochran-Smith gave the keynote address
to the Massachusetts AACTE conference. She has also twice presented to UCET,
the
Universities Council on the Education of Teachers, for the United Kingdom,
which is AACTE's counterpart in Great Britain. Dr. Cochran-Smith has been a
member
of the AACTE Publications Committee since 1998. In 1999, Dr. Cochran-Smith
also received AACTE's Margaret Lindsey Award, which acknowledges contributions
to
research in teacher education over more than a decade. She also received AACTE's
Outstanding Writing Award in 1995 for her book, Inside/Outside, co-authored
with Susan Lytle. During the 2001-2002 academic year, Dr. Cochran-Smith served
as a research consultant to the organization, writing position papers and presenting
to the AACTE Executive Board and the Advanced Deans' Winter Institute about
the appropriate role of research in teacher education.
National Academy of Education's Committee on
Teacher Education
Dr. Cochran-Smith is a part of the 28-member Committee on Teacher
Education of the National Academy of Education, chaired by Linda
Darling-Hammond and John
Bransford. On this committee, Dr. Cochran-Smith is also Co-Chair (with James
Banks) of the Sub-committee on the Purposes and Social Contexts of Education.
Additional Professional Associations
Dr. Cochran-Smith serves on, or has served on, the editorial boards
of the American
Educational Research Journal, Journal of Leadership in Education, Journal
of Educational Change, Teaching Education Journal, World Studies
in Education, Journal of School Leadership, and Qualitative Studies
in Education. In addition, she is a member of the advisory board for the Handbook
of Research on Multicultural Education and a regular reviewer of proposals
for the Spencer foundation. For many years, Dr. Cochran-Smith was an institutional
representative to the Holmes Group (for the University of Pennsylvania) and
later also attended the Holmes Partnership; she was also for many years an
institutional
representative (with Jim Larkin) to the Consortium for Excellence in Teacher
Education. Dr. Cochran-Smith is also a member of the External Advisory Board
for the Open Project for Accountability and the NYC Teacher Entry Rate Study.