The original draft of this document, which proposed to establish University-School Professional Development Partnerships in North Carolina, was the product of a meeting of the University Council on Teacher Education (UCTE) of The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in January 1996. The members of the Council met one month later, again in Chapel Hill, to review and refine the proposal prior to sharing it with their public school partners during a meeting in Raleigh on February 16,1996. A version of the proposal dated June 1996 incorporated changes and refinements recommended by participants in that Raleigh meeting and by members of UCTE after that meeting. During its regular meeting in May, members of UCTE adopted that draft of the proposal as the version they would use in the future to describe these proposed Partnerships to others, including university faculty and administrators, school district partners, members and staff of state and local governing boards, and members of the North Carolina General Assembly. In the fall of 1996, the UCTE (which had been renamed the Deans' Council on Teacher Education) further refined the document to include references to recent state and national reports and use of the terminology "University-School Teacher Education Partnerships."

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