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Brief: Practice-Based Approach
In this brief we highlight the design principle titled: Practice-Based Approach, as defined by BranchED. We believe quality educator preparation purposefully engages candidates in direct experience of teaching (practice) and focused, critical reflection.
Brief: Intersectional Content
In this brief we highlight the design principle titled: Intersectional Content, as defined by BranchED. We believe quality educator preparation is grounded in intersectional content where teacher candidates and graduates demonstrate mastery of content related to learners.
Brief: Data Empowerment
In this brief, we highlight the design principle titled: Data Empowered, as defined by BranchED. We believe quality educator preparation is predicated on an active culture of inquiry in which stakeholders and education partners engage in authentic and ongoing cycles of evidence-based improvement.
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.
Nuts & Bolts Framework Series--Putting it into Practice: Using Experience and Critical Reflection for Impact
In this webinar, learn how to purposefully engage candidates in direct experience of teaching (practice) and focused reflection to increase knowledge, develop skills, clarify values, and develop the capacity to contribute to diverse communities.
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.