Liveblogging ELA - Pre-Service Teacher Education

In a role-alike session for educational law professors now and the focus of this meeting is teaching pre-service teachers about the law. I want to record a few of the points that are being made now.

1. Once you get your foot in the door with a pre-service class on education law, the students will make it permanent because the demand is very high for this.
2. More research universities are pushing to do education law at the pre-service teacher level. Indiana has already made it work. Wisconsin, Penn State, BYU (and Kentucky) among others have instituted efforts to get pre-service teacher law.
3. We have to make it relevant for students.
4. Research by David Schimmel and Matt Militello has shown that the education law field is pretty universially in support of making a push to get pre-service teacher education on legal issues.
5. Lots of organizations can work together to get the law out there and create the demand.
6. They just brought up the NASSP thing. That was sort of cool. So I talked about that.
7. In the Fall issue of ELA notes Dave Schimmel writes about how to do this.
8. We need to share more about how everyone is doing this.

There are probably more points I missed, but the overall point is that everyone thinks we should be doing this and now the discussion is about HOW to do this, not IF we should do this. I think that is an important leap forward for us.