The Hawai'i Teacher Standards Board is responsible for conducting the state approval reviews of professional education units and their content area programs, which prepare Hawaii teachers, school counselors, and school librarians to be licensed.  Teams composed of licensed P-12 teachers, teacher educators and experts in the teaching field look for evidence that institutions are preparing teacher candidates according to SATE Unit Standards, HTSB Teacher Performance Standards and national standards of the Specialized Professional Associations.  Unit and Program Reviews are conducted on site so reviewers can examine evidence that the unit meets standards and interview faculty and candidates to make recommendations to the HTSB about whether the unit and program(s) should be granted State approval.