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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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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.
Strengthening Assessment Systems in Teacher Preparation | Identifying Key Assessments
This toolkit provides guidance, activities, and exercises to support EPPs in mapping assessments throughout the teacher candidate’s educational journey. Additionally, the toolkit supports the identification of key assessments program wide that generate data essential for continuous improvement.
Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Suite of Resources
BranchED and the New York State Workforce Development Hub partnered together to create this suite of resources and companion videos designed to support IHEs and guide partners through the process of developing or strengthening a registered Apprenticeship program.
Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Series | A Toolkit for Navigating the Role of the IHE
In this session, we'll explore the RAP Toolkit specifically, which is a foundational resource that was designed to help IHEs understand their unique role and engage effectively in the development of registered apprenticeship programs.
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.