Mark LaCelle-Peterson

President of AAQEP

Mark LaCelle-Peterson is the founding President of the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP), an accreditation agency founded in 2017 to strengthen P-20 education through excellent, innovative preparation of educators. AAQEP was recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation in May of 2021.

Mark has worked in accreditation and educator preparation for three decades, serving in faculty and leadership roles at several educator preparation programs in New York State. He also served as President of the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). He enjoys teaching assessment literacy, historical, social and cultural foundations of education, research methods, social and emotional learning, humanities, and Anglo Saxon and Old Norse literature (in translation). A native of Minnesota, he holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. He lives in Rochester, New York.