Recipe for Success

Recipe for Success: Building a Sustainable Quality Assurance System offers a practical and insightful guide to developing a robust, enduring quality assurance system within educator preparation programs. A strong quality assurance system is essential for documenting continuous improvement, demonstrating program effectiveness, and shaping the narrative surrounding educator preparation. Because such systems reflect the mission, vision, and identity of each institution, they vary widely—yet all serve as the foundational “DNA” that drives coherence, accountability, and innovation.

This book brings together chapters that examine the core components of high quality assurance work, including data quality, systematic and sustainable processes, and meaningful stakeholder engagement. Contributors explore how quality assurance systems inform policy at local, state, and national levels, challenging existing frameworks and critiquing prevailing research paradigms. They also analyze the dilemmas, tensions, and opportunities inherent in building systems that are both rigorous and responsive.

Recipe for Success provides educator preparation leaders, faculty, and policymakers with the tools and perspectives needed to design, refine, and sustain quality assurance systems that support excellence in teaching and learning.

Malina Monaco is the Senior Vice President for Accreditation at the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

Erin T. Horne is the Assistant Dean for Professional Education and Accreditation in the College of Education at NC State University.

Carla Tanguay is the Assistant Dean for Educator Preparation and Accreditation and a Clinical Associate Professor in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State University.