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Creating Meaningful Mathematic Experiences: A SEL Approach
In this module you will learn about evidence-based practices that will support teaching mathematics in elementary school settings through the lens of a Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) practitioner.
Cultivating Equitable Learning Environments for Students Experiencing Poverty
This module is designed to equip pre- and in-service teachers with the understandings and skills necessary to create and sustain equitable classrooms and schools for students and families experiencing poverty.
Dialogic Reading Toolkit: Building Early Literacy One Storybook at a Time
This toolkit is intended to help individuals recognize the value of a child’s ability, their family, and their community, while collectively working together to develop early literacy skills. The toolkit is offered in both English and Spanish.
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.
Teaching Syllable Types For Decoding and Encoding: Practice Based Instruction and Assessment for Phonics
Explicit instruction of syllable types is a crucial component of phonics instruction. Syllable type instruction plays a critical role in teaching students to decode (read) and encode (spell) words. This toolkit provides strategies for instruction for decoding and encoding different syllable types.
Teaching Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Practice-Based Instruction and Assessment
This instructional material will provide practice-based models for instruction and assessment of phonological and phonemic awareness skills. The materials will serve as a template that can be adjusted by faculty, teacher leaders, and teacher candidates.
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.