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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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PK-12 Learning Toolkit
BranchED identified areas where EPPs could increase teacher candidates' situated knowing and practice opportunities. These became the basis for this toolkit and are represented by four strands: Special Education, Curriculum Literacy, Technology Platforms, and General Policies and Procedures.
PK-12 Learning Toolkit: General Policies and Procedures
In this toolkit we highlight General Policies and Procedures and provide several activities that can be used with teacher candidates and in-service teachers. This is part of our PK-12 Learning Toolkit series.
Workshop: Centering Art to Question the World Around Us
In this workshop, participants will learn about using art to create new understandings of the world around us and how art can enhance students’ understandings of concepts and ideas they face in school and society. Participants will create art and learn ways to incorporate art for content learning.
Teacher Video Library
The Teacher Video Library is comprised of highly effective, equity focused Teachers of Color modeling evidence-based practices within a variety of grade levels and subject matter.
Equity Rubric for Open Educational Resource (OER) Evaluation
Open Educational Resource have become an increasingly viable option for bridging the gaps in inequitable educational learning outcomes for students in Educator Preparation Programs. The BranchED Equity Rubric for OER Evaluation can be applied to multiple forms of instructional materials.
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.