a very different set of standards?

I was listening to a podcast from CUNY (City University of New York if you didn't know) about their new Teacher Academy (http://www.cuny.edu/teacheracademy) and thinking about how interesting their vision is. Putting aside the disciplinary foci that they have chosen there is an inspirational partnership model in place that brings together teacher education students, teachers, schools and their communities and teacher educators. I would have to do more research and would like to see it in action but it sounds like a manifestation of the vision I myself always had for teacher education where all of these groups of people are in fact working on common grounds.

In any case, the title of this post is talking about something quite different. The speaker in the podcast at some point mentioned the standards which they are using (my ears propped up and I thought... hmmm... I wonder how they compare to those of the VIT). I could be wrong about whether these are the standards that the CUNY Teacher Academy is using but take a look at the policy documents from the centre anyway:
http://newteachercenter.org/nyc_policy_paper.php
The link is from the New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz who aparently have a set of standards that the CUNY Teacher Academy is using. If anyone finds them, you might let me know (I just don't have the time to go scouting right now).

In my searches I also ran into the Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley:
http://crede.berkeley.edu/standards/standards.html