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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.
New Here? Learn More About the PortalNuts & Bolts Webinar Digital Citizenship: Equipping Students for an AI-Driven Future
In this webinar, Sue Thotz, Director of Outreach for Common Sense, will discuss strategies for promoting ethical practices in AI-driven education digital environments, ensuring inclusivity, transparency, and accountability.
Resource Spotlight Pathways to Practice: Enhancing Teacher Candidate Preparation
This video explicates features of, and use cases for, our Pk-12 Learning Toolkit developed by BranchED with a group of our core community and district members. The toolkit includes four strands: Special Education, Curriculum Literacy, Technology Platforms, and General Policies and Procedures.
Creating Positive Learning Environments
This toolkit offers practical tools to help educators create and co-create positive learning environments. The materials also support a shift in language and perspectives reflecting asset-based pedagogies, and growth mindset.
Intentionality in Creating Positive Learning Environments
This research brief provides an overview of instructional approaches that have been found to support the development of positive learning environments.
Unlocking Adolescent Learning: A Comprehensive Toolkit for All Stakeholders
This toolkit provides an overview of four fundamental learning domains essential for understanding and supporting adolescent growth and development (1) adolescent learning and development (2) research-based strategies (3) technology to enhance learning (4) adolescent literacy.
Early Literacy Bilingual Family Engagement Research Brief
This brief synthesizes the importance of early literacy for bilingual students, emphasizing its cognitive, linguistic, and socioemotional benefits. It highlights the role parents paly in their child's early literacy development and suggests strategies for supporting families at home.
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.