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4:30pm The meeting was called to order by Lynn Thomas. M/S: That the agenda be adopted as circulated to members. Carried. M/S: That the minutes of the 2011 AGM be approved. Carried. President’s Report: Lynn prepared a written report for the members which will be posted on the website. She highlighted several items including: a. Preconference b. CSSE CATE conference, including the CATE Keynote, Clare Kosnick, the CATE panel, and the Spotlight session at AERA. c. Lynn highlighted a number of new publications written by CATE members and noted these will be the awards given to the graduate student award winners. Vice President’s report: This written report will also be provided on the website. He highlighted several things including: a. Mark Hirschkorn reported on the CATE conference program, and included statistics on the past five years in terms of membership. He noted that while the numbers for 2012 seem to be lower, this is because the numbers are collected by Tim Howard of CSSE several months ago. Numbers should be close to those in 2011. b. Acceptance rate for CATE this year has been lower than the past, was only 77%. This is because we had the same number of conference spaces and a larger number of proposals submitted. c. Mark highlighted the success of the CATE Spotlight sessions offered this year and noted they will continue next year. d. Mark also spoke about the concerns being raised with members submitting multiple proposals, given the competitive nature of the submission process. He also spoke about members submitting the same proposal to multiple associations, which was a problem this year. This will be flagged again in next year’s call to avoid this problem, reminding members they can only submit one proposal as first author, a second only if they are second author. Treasurer’s Report: Catherine McGregor’s written report will be posted on the website. She offered a short summary of the current CATE budget, highlighting revenues for each of the SIGS as well as CATE overall. Expenses are in line with previous years, although she highlighted the increasing catering costs to the organization. However, CATE remains in a healthy financial state. Graduate student representative. Lee Airton reported on the work she had done over the past year, highlighting the panel organized for this year’s CATE graduate session on connecting graduate student research with the field of teacher education scholarship. Nina Webster, as co-chair, thanked Lee for their continued contributions to creating a collaborative space in which to support graduate student members. SIG Reports.

a. CAREC: no representative was at the AGM, so Lynn will ask them to send in a report and will be posted on the website. b. PHETE: had three good sessions, a good AGM; they have elected a new President for next year. Their plan for a preconference next year was highlighted. Lynn Thomas noted that we will have four CATE preconferences next year in Victoria. c. SSTEP: Julian Kitchen: Highlighted their new book, edited by Tom Russell and Julian Kitchen. An introductory chapter that talks about what self-study is was highlighted as well as the significant work that is being done in self-study in Canada. They plan to more sessions as well as their AGM tomorrow (last day of CSSE). d. TATE: Good coordination of sessions by their program chair. Julie Mulluer’s work in organizing on the ground here in Waterloo, particularly the work in organizing a cross sector pre conference that involved TATE members, schools and districts, as well as industry representatives was much appreciated. CATE members were invited to attend a session on the last day of CSSE that highlights how to engage in a virtual conference presentation. 9. Elections: a. Vice President: Julie Mueller b. Member at Large: Susan Elliott Johns c. Student representation: Lisa Starr d. Secretary treasurer: Michelle Prytula e. CATE representation on the new scholars fellowship: Norman Vaughn 10. Information/links were provided on the poster. Lynn reminded members about the recently launched CSSE survey that is being conducted online. This will inform decisions taken by CSSE so members should participate in this online survey. (https://survey.edudata.ca/es/czlyNA/Yzl5Nw/ 11. Lynn also discussed a motion passed at the CSSE AGM about investigating the possibility of hosting a stand alone CSSE (apart from Congress). She went over details about the year long process that CSSE will begin in the fall about whether or not we should do a stand-alone conference or some different model than currently exists. But members will have an opportunity to review the report and recommendations at next year’s CSSE AGM. 12. Lynn also reported that the CATE website will be updated over the coming year; Jodi Nickel our communications director will be working on this initiative. 13. Members were reminded about the CATE Polygraph series: it is open to members for presenting a topic/theme within teacher education. Individuals can put forward proposals if you or a group of members have ideas you would like to do. Contact Lynn or Thomas Falkenberg if you are interested in doing a proposal. 14. Working conference: Lynn reviewed the history of this annual event, first organized by Thomas and Hans Smit, but now a CATE imitative. The details of the fall 2012 working conference at McGill will be sent out shortly. “Becoming teachers: sites for teacher development” is the broad theme. The

information about how to submit a proposal for the working conference. Kathy Sanford’s suggestion that we should have a conversation about whether or not there should be a closer tie between the pre conference and the working conference. The pre conference participants this year expressed interest in having social justice in teacher education. Lynn pointed out that there is a partnership between the CATE executive and the sponsoring university and so the topic comes out of that negotiations. 15. Paige Fisher reported on the CATE preconference and said the documents created by the group would be posted on the CATE website. 16. Karen Goodnough: reported on a Canada wide survey being conducted that asks faculty to consider the theory/practice relationship in teacher education. It has been circulated via Dean, so interested members should contact their Dean if they want to participate. 17. Lynn described the inaugural “outstanding scholar” award for CATE that goes to an individual who has contributed in a substantial way to teacher education in Canada. She then gave the inaugural award to Tom Russell. Tom accepted the award and commented on the important work that many are doing in Canada that contributes to the growth of our knowledge about teacher education. 18. Mark Hirschkorn, incoming President of CATE thanked Lynn for her work in CATE; in particular he commended her for her efforts to making CATE bilingual. However he also acknowledged her ability to be a role model and enable action with members. 19. Thomas Falkenberg came forward to announce the student award winners who were each honoured with certificates. These included: MASTERS Badiee, Farnaz, (SFU) Laurin, Chantal, (UQAM) Reaume, Rebecca (Windsor) Tsang, Delena Rose (Alberta) Weiman, Kari (Saskatchewan) Doctoral Cho, Christine York Fletcher, Tim, OISE Gaudreau, Nancy, Laval Janzen, Melanie, UBC Schnellert, Leyton, UBC Nixon, Rhonda, Alberta Oesterle, Susan, SFU Radu, Oana Memorial Villeneuve, Stephane, Montreal 20. M/S: Adjournment at 6:25 pm.