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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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Assessing and Supporting Self-Efficacy in Early Mathematics Instruction
This toolkit is designed for use by teacher educators, including those in higher education, school districts, and professional development settings, as a self-assessment tool to gauge teacher candidates’ and in-service teachers’ perceived self-efficacy in teaching early mathematics.
Vacancy Data Toolkit for EPPs and Partner Districts
This toolkit offers EPPs and District Partners a common vision of high-quality educator preparation and an approach to implementing evidence-based practices. The corresponding tool (excel workbook) is designed to look at three consecutive years of data and to generate data visualizations.
Vacancy Data Tool for EPPs and Partner Districts: Excel Workbook
The vacancy data tool (excel workbook) is designed for EPPS and their District Partners to look at three years of data. EPP and district data are entered directly into the workbook which automatically generates visualizations that highlight gaps and surpluses in selected concentration areas.
Universal Screeners: An Introduction to Universal Screeners for Literacy
This research brief focuses on universal screeners for literacy, what the research says about universal screeners, and what the best practices are for using them in grade PK-2nd grade.
Data ToolKit: Data Visualization Guide
The Data Visualization Guide is designed to help you create data visualizations to identify gaps, trends and outliers in the data. The accompanying video series is designed to help utilize an Excel Workbook to create data visualizations from data sets.
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.