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The BranchED Resource 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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Reading Roots: Growing Readers in Our Communities
This suite of resources was created in response to the growing need to support families with young children, from infancy to age 8, in building strong foundations for lifelong learning.
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.
Math Beyond the Classroom: Math Around the House
This toolkit utilizes common household items that can be used to discuss math content. Items are arranged by math literacy concept. Each math concept has activities that you can do with for children. Each activity includes age range, the specific math content highlighted, and materials needed.
Strengthening Assessment Systems in Teacher Preparation | Determining Validity & Reliability of Assessments
This toolkit explains the process of determining assessment validity and reliability as a key practice in a comprehensive assessment program.
Strengthening Assessment Systems in Teacher Preparation | Calibrating Scorers of Assessments
This toolkit guides EPP faculty and other teacher educators in planning and implementing calibration processes.
Strengthening Assessment Systems in Teacher Preparation | Designing High-Quality Rubrics
This toolkit outlines the attributes of high-quality rubrics embedded in a program assessment system. Additionally, it provides hands-on activities that will assist EPPs in developing or revising their assessment rubrics to ensure they are high-quality.
BranchED is a professional services organization and a collective of university faculty and leaders advancing educational excellence by expanding individual capacity, enabling supportive relationships, boosting institutional effectiveness, and collaborating with communities. We believe every student deserves access to caring, adaptive, and well-prepared teachers; every teacher deserves high-quality preparation that empowers, and every person benefits when we create a higher standard of education together. We are committed to achieving programmatic transformation leading to improved outcomes for educators who, by extension, benefit all students by preparing them to maximize their life possibilities.
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.