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Exploring African Diaspora Literacy as a Model for Empowering Children: Fostering Literacy Skills

For: Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Teacher, Teacher Candidate

In this toolkit, early childhood educators will explore African Diaspora Literacy as an approach for empowering children. Resources and reflective questions are provided to support early childhood educators.

Using Children's Literature to Build Mathematics Literacy

For: Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator, PK-12 Teacher, Teacher Candidate

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.

Mathematics Resources for Families/Caregivers of Young Children

For: Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator, PK-12 Teacher, Teacher Candidate

Providing families and caregivers with high-quality resources to support young children’s mathematical curiosity and learning away from the school environment may be useful for future learning and positive dispositions toward mathematics. This resource shares an annotated bibliography of materials.

Elementary Mathematics Vocabulary

For: Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator, PK-12 Teacher, Teacher Candidate

The purpose of this toolkit is to identify key mathematical terminology coupled with activities that explore these terms. These activities can be used as a resource for parents or guardians to build mathematical vocabulary at home or as classroom vocabulary building activities.

Early Math Literacy Instructional Guides

For: Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator, PK-12 Teacher, Teacher Candidate

BranchED convened researchers to identify and address some of the knowledge gaps on the importance of early math in student outcomes. Using this information, the team created instructional guides around each of the five content standards as defined by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Early Math Literacy at Home

For: Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator, PK-12 Teacher, Teacher Candidate

Our youngest learners are exploring the world around them daily and making sense of what they experience. This resource provides ideas, examples, and tools for cultivating early math literacy in our youngest learners using math concepts found in every child’s day to day activities.

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.

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