Explore our Resource Portal
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.
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.
Curriculum Literacy Guide
The Curriculum Literacy Guide provides guidance for teacher prep programs to support teacher candidates to become critical consumers of curriculum, making a real difference by narrowing opportunity gaps and accelerating student learning at scale.
Student Data Privacy and Data Ethics Scenarios
These materials aim to help pre-service and in-service educators understand privacy risks and ethical concerns that arise in school-based situations and to provide guidance on how to mitigate risk and harm by discussing the legal obligations and best practices for protecting student data privacy.
Workshop: Introduction to Translanguaging in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
This recorded workshop and accompanying slide deck unpack the theoretical understandings of translanguaging and related topics such as language acquisition and bilingual education. They also provide hands-on activities and resources for reflection and practice.
BranchED Framework for the Quality of Preparation of Educators: A Diagnostic Tool
This innovative diagnostic tool aligns to the BranchED Framework for Quality of Preparation of Educators. This tool allows for Educator Preparation Providers (EPPs) to evaluate and reflect on their current performance level for each of our six principles.
State Data Resource Guide
The State Data Resource Guide will provide teacher preparation programs (TPPs) with links to relevant education data on at three levels: state, national, and TPP. The Resource Guide includes links to data for states served by BranchED and will be updated as new sources become available.
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.