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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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Tech Savvy Students: Empowering Learning in a Digital Age
This toolkit serves as a resource for educators seeking to explore and implement new technology applications to enrich the teaching and learning process. Beyond traditional digital worksheets, it offers approaches to integrate technology into differentiated instruction for diverse learners.
BranchED Teacher Educator Competencies
BranchED, has created a set of teacher educator competencies which resulted from a thorough review of the literature, collaborative contributions from teacher educators, and feedback from both internal and external partners.
Early Literacy Bilingual Family Engagement
This toolkit provides links to resources that can help teachers learn about the research and resources that can support the early literacy development of bilingual/multilingual students.
Teacher Candidate Dispositions Toolkit
This toolkit is intended for EPPs to support the development of teacher candidates and inform program improvement efforts. The toolkit contains both a self-assessment for teacher candidates as well as an observational tool for EPP and district level teacher educators.
Engaging in Data Dialogues
An essential component of Data Empowerment is engaging stakeholders in meaningful exploration and analysis of data. This resource provides a case study to demonstrate the process for meaningful data engagement and a template of the process.
Shared Governance Toolkit
This toolkit is intended for an EPP and school district partnership working together to build shared governance.
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.