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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.
Visceral Realism in Art: Promoting Bilingual Communities
How can educators’ personal art practices facilitate understanding of issues affecting immigrant bilingual learners? Using original paintings Professor Christian Faltis tells his own story and characterizes the Mexican experience in the U.S.
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.
Funds of Knowledge
These instructional materials define and unpack "funds of knowledge" as well as "dark funds of knowledge". In addition, the instructional materials provide opportunities for identifying and practicing these types of knowledge, both through a personal perspective and an educator perspective.
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.