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Common Mistakes in Early Childhood Mathematics
In this toolkit, we will explore how, as Math Guides—parents, caregivers, teacher educators, teachers, and teacher candidates who nurture early math literacy in young learners, we can use mistakes to help learners develop procedural fluency through conceptual understanding.
Early Math Literacy Program Reflection Toolkit
This toolkit gives those working with young children a running start and some ideas of ways to captivate young children’s minds with mathematics, specifically concepts that involve measurement. It touches on broad concepts of measurement using everyday objects.
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.
EduTerm Guide: A Comprehensive Resource for Educational Terminology and Acronyms
Whether you're a seasoned educator or a newcomer to the field, the EduTerm Guide caters to individuals of all levels of expertise, fostering a deeper understanding of educational terminology.
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.
Promotora Project Book List
The Promotora Project is a family engagement project that seeks to empower a group of Teacher Candidates and community liaisons, or what we call Early Literacy Promotoras, to support the early literacy development of Spanish speaking children. The following is a list of books that each team used.
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.