Calling All CECs!
I am honored to have begun my term as chair of Certification two months ago, along with Cam Holzer, who serves as Chair-Elect. While the newsletter is an important tool to communicate to all our Certified Educators (CEs) within our organization, this article is specifically for our Certified Educator Candidates (CECs) - all 121 of them!
The Certification Commission is hard at work supporting you in your processes. We’ve had some changes in our commission and welcomed eight new CCRs (Certification Commission Reviewers) at the start of this year. You may have been notified that your CCR has changed if your original CCR was completing their term. If you were assigned a new CCR recently, I hope you will get a chance to know them soon as they journey with you in this process.
We have uploaded a new CEC Dashboard in your portfolio to help the CCRs get a quick snapshot of you. This is a one-page background informational sketch for you to complete and keep current. We hope this will ease communication (especially as new CCRs roll on). This will also help the National Faculty serving on your interview teams get a glance at pertinent information.
Lastly, you are cordially invited to attend the CEC Pre-Conference Event, “Making Visible: Demystifying the Certification Process” (or CEC Pre-party, as I have been informally calling it!) It will take place at the conference hotel in New Orleans, the day before the conference, starting Sunday, May 21st, at 2 pm and concluding Monday at 2 pm. We hope this will be a time for you to make connections and build relationships with CECs across the country and learn from each other about navigating the certification process. In addition, it will serve as a further orientation to ACPE as a national organization and collegial community, especially if this is the first conference you are attending.
For those who are not CECs, you are invited to the Certification workshop at the Conference on Monday, May 22nd at 12 pm. CEs who have questions about certification are also welcome to come to any of our drop-in Certification zoom meetings on the first and third Monday of every month at 12 pm EST.
I am looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
Christine