This article is a summary of our working group's continued discourse from the Conference on English Education (CEE) Summit, where our discussions focused on English teacher candidate competencies, program assessment, the Standards and Guidelines, and National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE's) roles and responsibilities. For the purpose of this special issue of English Education, our group chose to focus more specifically on issues related to candidate and program assessment and NCTE's responsibilities in guiding our field in these areas. ["Candidate and Program Assessment in English Education: A Framework for Discussion and Debate" was written with Steven Bickmore, Leola Harden-Luster, Jean Ketter, Jim Marshall, and Tom Philion.]