Explore our Resource Portal
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.
Culturally and Linguistic Sustaining Writing Pedagogy
This toolkit introduces a framework for culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy in writing and strategies for which address cultural and languaging practices.
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.
Exploring Implicit Linguistic Bias: A Self-Reflection Guide
The purpose of this toolkit is to explore and reflect on implicit linguistic biases in order to create linguistically inclusive spaces for teaching and learning, especially within the context of writing instruction.
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: A Primer
This toolkit includes a PowerPoint and assignment which educator preparation faculty can use to consider the relationship between culture, representation, and learning.
BranchED Tool for Reflective, Culturally Sustaining Practice for Teacher Educators
Adopting a critically reflective practice is a responsible way to practice education, allowing us to move forward with hope and make change.
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.