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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 PortalCreating 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.
Fostering Holistic Adolescent Development and Learning in Educational Settings
This research brief explores the intricacies of adolescent development and learning and encompasses four fundamental pillars of development and learning: adolescent development, research-based strategies, the utilization of technology to enhance learning, and adolescent literacy.
Utilizing Vignettes to Enhance Teacher Preparation: Case Studies from the Field
In this report, each highlighted institution utilized BranchED’s handbook, Complexities in the Classroom: Vignettes for Teacher Candidates, as a starting point for this work, adapting the use of the handbook’s components for their specific contexts.
Math Mastery for Young Learners: A Comprehensive Guide
This toolkit focuses on five fundamental domains of mathematics. Under each domain, the toolkit includes concepts, skills, activities, and carefully curated book list to help develop a child’s understanding of that domain.
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.