2025 GACTE Fall Meeting

Centering Candidates in a Changing World

November 12 – 14, 2025

Conference Hotel: Hilton Peachtree City Atlanta Hotel and Conference Center at 2443 Highway 54 West in Peachtree City, GA

GACTE provides a forum for dialogue on issues related to professional education, promoting effective public policy, and enhancing and improving professional education programs at colleges for teacher education. The 2025 GACTE conference provides an opportunity to share ideas, research, policy, and best practices for teaching and leading. Our audience includes all members of the educational community, including P-12 and higher education faculty and leadership, teacher candidates, assessment and field experience directors and other staff, school counselors, and state agency personnel.

Who Should Attend: Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, Chairs, Faculty, Students, P-12 Educators, School Counselors, P-12 Administrators, Assessment and Field/Clinical Placement Directors, State Agency Personnel

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Schedule

All conference sessions will take place at the conference hotel.

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Accommodations

Conference Hotel Registration: 

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Registration Fees

Institutional Members Registration Fee (If paid after October 20th, an additional $50 will be added to all registration fees.):

• Full conference: $395
• Full conference students: $150

Non-Member Fee (If paid after October 20th, an additional $50 will be added to all registration fees.):

• Full conference: $475

Please Note: GACTE reserves the right to take and use images/photos or recordings of meetings or meeting-related events and its participants. Authorization is implicit upon attendees’ registration to the bi-annual meeting or other events.

REGISTRATION

Registration is open to both members and non-members. Please complete the form linked below to register for the event.

Note: After October 20th, an additional $50 late registration fee will be added.

Refund Policy: For individuals who have paid registration fees but cannot attend, an 80% refund may be issued if the request is made September 30th, 2025. After this point, refunds will not be made, but the conference payment may be transferred to another individual for the same conference/event.

PAYMENT

Payments are accepted through PayPal or via check.

If you are paying via PayPal, please utilize the online registration link.

If you are paying via check, please complete the online registration and print your registration confirmation to submit with your check to the following address:

Mail your check payable to GACTE to the following address:

c/o Shannon Mitchell, GACTE Treasurer

Mercer University
Tift College of Education
1501 Mercer University Drive
Macon, Georgia 31207

For Invited Guests only, please click on the “Invited Guests Registration” button below. No fees will be charged for registration for invited guests, but this ensures that we have a record of your registration, have a name badge for you, and have an adequate number for provided meals.

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For questions related to payment, please contact
Shannon Mitchell at mitchell_sn@mercer.edu or 478-301-2688.