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Brief: Community of Learners
In this brief we highlight the design principle titled: Community of Learners, as defined by BranchED. We believe quality educator preparation is catalyzed by a broad-based Community of Learners comprised of teacher educators, PK-12 and other community members, and workforce development personnel
Nuts & Bolts Webinar Ready Day 1: The Intersection of Content, Pedagogy and the Learner
Program completion includes mastery of content related to learners, learning, subject matter, pedagogical knowledge, assessment, and engagement with families and communities. Such knowledge is dynamic, constructed and overlapping. This webinar and research brief illuminate Intersectional Content.
Using Equity Reviews to Assess and Address Opportunity Gaps in Teacher Preparation Programs
This report chronicles the history and purpose of BranchED’s Equity Reviews. Learnings from four prototype reviews conducted at predominately white institutions are provided as well as considerations and opportunities for undertaking like reviews in the future.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar Framework Series--Ensuring Success: Providing Equitable Opportunities for All Teacher Candidates
Equitable experiences begin with an ethic of care and are ingrained in recruitment and selection process, advising, timely progression and completion of the program, and induction support based on candidate-specific needs. Learn how one EPP exemplifies this principle in all facets of their program.
Nuts & Bolts Framework Series--Empowered by Data: Fostering a Culture of Inquiry
In this webinar, learn how educator preparation providers (EPPs) have transitioned from a culture of compliance to an active culture of inquiry, utilizing an authentic and ongoing cycle of evidence-based improvement.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar Framework Series--Growth, Connection, Support: Bringing Together Learners to Create Community
In this webinar you will hear from teacher educators and their district partners who have coalesced to ensure equitable educational opportunities for both PK-12 learners and teacher candidates, leading to improved outcomes for all.
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.