{"id":3619,"date":"2021-11-17T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:53:07","slug":"wilmu-honored-for-excellence-in-teacher-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/17\/wilmu-honored-for-excellence-in-teacher-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"WilmU Honored for Excellence in Teacher Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column3619_811c3c-3f dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"accreditation-group-cites-continuous-improvement-and-diversity\"><strong><em>Accreditation group cites continuous improvement and diversity<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wilmington University has been named one of the top teaching schools in the country by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)<\/strong>, which evaluates the performance of more than 700 teacher prep programs nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CAEP\u2019s annual Frank Murray Leadership Recognition for Continuous Improvement&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/caepnet.org\/about\/news-room\/frank-murray\">honored WilmU<\/a>, along with 24 schools in 16 other states and one in the United Arab Emirates, for flawless accreditation reviews in the previous year that demonstrated and promoted equity in student learning that resulted in excellence in teacher preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe providers that CAEP is recognizing are committed to continuous improvement and preparing their students to succeed in a diverse range of classrooms after they graduate,\u201d says Karen Symms Gallagher, who chairs CAEP\u2019s board of directors. \u201cThe Murray Leadership Recognition recipients should be proud of their accomplishments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re feeling very good about the honor,\u201d says WilmU College of Education dean John Gray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOur mission has always been to deliver excellence to Delaware\u2019s schools, so it\u2019s gratifying to be recognized.\u201d \u2014 John Gray<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis third class to receive the Murray recognition represents the diversity and innovation that comes with CAEP accreditation,\u201d says CAEP president Chris Koch. \u201cThese recipients reflect the creativity that CAEP affords in achieving excellence, by meeting the standards in a variety of ways, for the diverse populations they serve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Frank Murray, who died in 2018, was the founding president of the Teacher Education Accreditation Council, which merged with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in 2013 to create CAEP. He also served as dean of the University of Delaware\u2019s College of Education from 1979 to 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about Wilmington University\u2019s College of Education and its teacher preparation programs, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilmu.edu\/Education\">www.wilmu.edu\/Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accreditation group cites continuous improvement and diversity Wilmington University has been named one of the top teaching schools in the country by the Council for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[601,627,78],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifewilmu","tag-accreditation","tag-caep","tag-college-of-education-liberal-arts"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":163,"label":"LIFE@WILMU"}],"post_tag":[{"value":601,"label":"Accreditation"},{"value":627,"label":"CAEP"},{"value":78,"label":"College of Education &amp; Liberal Arts"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blog_Murray-Recognition-Award_FeaturedImage_11-21-480x480.jpg",480,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel Marchione","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/rachel\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":163,"name":"LIFE@WILMU","slug":"lifewilmu","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":720,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":90,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":163,"category_count":90,"category_description":"","cat_name":"LIFE@WILMU","category_nicename":"lifewilmu","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":601,"name":"Accreditation","slug":"accreditation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1158,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":627,"name":"CAEP","slug":"caep","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1184,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":78,"name":"College of Education &amp; Liberal Arts","slug":"college-of-education-liberal-arts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":635,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":90,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15836,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/15836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}