Southwest Airlines, in the air since 1971, started with three planes serving the cities of Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Today, with more than 500 Boeing 737 airplanes, Southwest serves 72 American cities with low-cost, point-to-point air transportation and continues to grow.
Use of the Classroom Organization and Behavior Management Innovation Configuration (in the Appendix) can assist teacher preparation programs in identifying gaps in critical components and level of implementation in their curriculum.
As of January 2015, there were more than 600 teacher preparation programs working with edTPA at different levels of involvement. One reason is that teacher preparation programs want to challenge the misconception that the path to teaching is too easy.