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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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Resistance Bilingual Literature
This instructional material guides the learner through a selection of stories of resistance. Resistance literature teaches youth that they have a voice, that things are not fair, and therefore they will need to fight for change.
Abolishing Linguistic Borders Critical Bilingual Books Indigenous Hawaiian and Spanish Books
This instructional material guides the learner through books historically translated and used for the education of Hawai'ian and Spanish Bilingual students. It emphasizes the importance of allowing students to write their own stories and to honor the many languages of the Latinx/Chicanx communities.
Personal Language Inventory: Teacher Educator Guide for Engaging Educators in Self-Reflexive Inquiry into Language Use
This toolkit will help teacher educators to use literature that discusses the language experiences of minoritzed communities to consider their own ideas about language, and how these ideas can facilitate their interactions with students in classrooms.
Concepts of Print: Practice-Based Instruction and Assessment
The concept of print is one of the first literacy skills children develop. Print awareness is a child's realization that print carries meaning. Families and teachers can prompt awareness by creating a “print rich” environment. This toolkit includes various strategies to create such an environment.
Accessible Storybooks: Making Books Come Alive for all Learners
This resource focuses on the need for accessibility and provides ways in which storybooks can be used for all children.
Using Children's Literature to Build Mathematics Literacy
In this resource, several lessons are provided for classroom teaching based on children’s literature and equitable practices. Each lesson includes a reference to a book to use for the lesson, an overview of how to implement the lesson, and supplemental material to use throughout the lesson.
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.