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The BranchED portal is designed to support both teacher educators and PK-12 partners in their professional development. Whether you’re seeking information on a particular topic, looking to take an online course, or to stay current with our evolving library of resources, we’ve got something for you.
Complexities in the Classroom: Vignettes for Teacher Candidates
This handbook, developed by a team of teacher educators and their PK-12 partners, consists of a series of vignettes and accompanying protocols to engage teacher candidates in exploring classroom complexities.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar on Innovative Pedagogies: Humanizing Pedagogy
This webinar features Dr. María del Carmen Salazar and Dr. William Anderson who will discuss her experience with and development of pedagogical practices that humanize learners.
Nuts & Bolts Framework Series--Putting it into Practice: Using Experience and Critical Reflection for Impact
In this webinar, learn how to purposefully engage candidates in direct experience of teaching (practice) and focused reflection to increase knowledge, develop skills, clarify values, and develop the capacity to contribute to diverse communities.
BranchED Framework for the Quality Preparation of Educators: A Diagnostic Tool Focused on Early Literacy
This asset-based early literacy diagnostic tool allows for Educator Preparation Providers to evaluate and reflect on their current level of literacy performance. It aligns to the BranchED Framework for Quality of Preparation of Educators and essential early literacy research, concepts, and skills.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar on Successful Learning: A Deep Dive into Inclusive Pedagogy
Inclusive pedagogy minimizes or removes barriers to learning or assessment and supports the success of all learners, while ensuring that academic standards are not diminished. Such pedagogy integrates culturally and linguistically sustaining practices, social and emotional learning, and more.
Just Like Me: Teachers of Color in Action Workshop Video
This workshop proudly showcases our Teacher Video Library. We discuss the use of videos as instructional tools within coursework/professional development with pre- and in-service teachers to promote evidence-based practices modeled by highly effective Teachers of Color.
BranchED seeks to support individual educator preparation programs (EPPs) and the field at large in reimagining and redefining “quality” preparation programs such that attention to issues of diversity and equity are explicit, embedded, and inextricably linked to high-quality performance.
The Resource Portal was created to support our community by providing resources such as instructional materials, online modules, podcasts, practice-based learning opportunities, research briefs, teaching video library, tool/toolkit, and webinars.