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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.
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Workshop: Centering Art to Question the World Around Us
In this workshop, participants will learn about using art to create new understandings of the world around us and how art can enhance students’ understandings of concepts and ideas they face in school and society. Participants will create art and learn ways to incorporate art for content learning.
Teacher Video Library
The Teacher Video Library is comprised of highly effective, equity focused Teachers of Color modeling evidence-based practices within a variety of grade levels and subject matter.
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.
Structures for Belonging
Belonging is a vital ingredient for learning and well-being. In every learning environment, students pick up on cues energy to learning. Created through the Student Experience Research Network's Belonging Collective this toolkit applies the research on belonging-supportive learning environments.
Equity Rubric for Open Educational Resource (OER) Evaluation
Open Educational Resource have become an increasingly viable option for bridging the gaps in inequitable educational learning outcomes for students in Educator Preparation Programs. The BranchED Equity Rubric for OER Evaluation can be applied to multiple forms of instructional materials.
A Primer on Inclusive Instruction
This primer provides an overview of inclusive instruction as defined by BranchED. It provides a summary of varied pedagogical frameworks essential to inclusive instruction as well as recommendations on how to implement them in the classroom.
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.