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Gaston Caperton and Michael Shackleford, associate vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Virginia State University and Southern Regional Assembly chair.

Gaston Caperton and Michael Shackleford, associate vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Virginia State University and Southern Regional Assembly chair

Dear Colleagues —

February for me has been a month of travel and time spent with many of you at our annual regional forums. I enjoyed the opportunity to attend each of the six regional forums and was especially pleased that at many of the forums, I was able to schedule listening sessions.

As you probably know, our regional forums attract educators
from across the entire education spectrum — presidents, principals, superintendents, financial aid officers, teachers and counseling and admissions specialists. Universities, colleges, community colleges and high schools are represented. This diverse group of educators made the listening sessions particularly worthwhile for me.

Several themes emerged from these listening sessions that I think are worth sharing in Connection, because these themes are calls for action that we take very seriously:

You would like to see more professional development and training for all professionals (teachers, financial aid officers and admissions officers). We heard a particularly strong plea for help for new teachers and teacher preparation (while studying to become a teacher).
You told us that the College Board does a very good job of bringing educators together, but you want us to do even more, especially bringing together educators from higher education and K-12.
You like what we’re doing with advocacy and, again, you’d like to see us do even more, ideally involving a national effort to elevate the teaching profession.
You’d like us to communicate all the good work that the College Board undertakes.

I think over the coming months and years, you’ll see that we are taking action to address these issues. And you will also see that we will ask you, our members, to do more and to step forward and join the national conversation about education in this country.

As I said at each forum, I believe that as Americans, we all want to be asked to do more. We want to take on a cause greater than our own interests. Like previous generations, we want to leave a legacy of sacrifice and investment for our children’s future.

We can agree that education is our cause. And I hope we can agree that it’s the best legacy work any of us will ever do.

Gaston

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