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This article addresses the topic of professional lives of teacher educators in an era of mandated reform from the perspective of a teacher educator at a large, comprehensive urban institution in California. Successively as director of student teaching for the elementary education program, coordinator for the secondary teacher preparation program, and associate dean, it has been a challenging part of my professional life over the previous nine years to participate with and lead faculty through several major mandates: a state class-size reduction initiative for grades K3, a mandate from the California State University system to increase the number of teacher candidates by 25 percent, concurrent national and state reviews of the college of education, and a complete overhaul of the elementary and secondary teacher preparation programs to meet new state credentialing standards. These mandates overlapped in purposes and chronology and, along with other initiatives and projects, served to keep the teacher education faculty in a perpetual state of reform, renewal and program development activity. My purpose in this article is to reflect on the conditions teacher educators labor under as they go about their professional lives in the overheated climate of mandated education reform of recent years, particularly when the mandates are multiple, have strict timelines, and carry high-stakes consequences. The article focuses on faculty participation from a time and workload perspective, since it is the intersection of time, workload and mandate that affects the intensity and quality of the effort to implement current mandates and also affects faculty willingness to engage in reform efforts called for in future mandates. I draw on personal experience, on observations of colleagues at my own institution, and on what I have learned from colleagues at other institutions whom I meet at professional gatherings. The first section of the article develops a profile of the professional life of teacher education faculty. Then I discuss some of the key points of intersection of the professional lives of teacher educators and mandated education reform. Lastly, I look at some of the implications of mandated reform for policymakers and faculty and administrators in institutions of higher education (IHEs).

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