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Instructional Tools and Materials

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Science of Learning: Teacher Action Anchor Charts

Science of Learning

Science of Learning: Teacher Action Anchor Charts

These resources provide practicing teacher-educators with overviews of teacher actions informed by the science of learning.

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Science of Learning: Coaching Tools

Science of Learning

Science of Learning: Coaching Tools

These resources provide clinical educators with tips for observing and coaching novice and aspiring teachers.

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Early Literacy Foundational Skills: Instructional Modules Overview

Literacy

Early Literacy Foundational Skills: Instructional Modules Overview

Our practice-based modules prepare future teachers to plan and enact foundational skills grounded in scientifically-informed reading instruction.

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HQIM: Instructional Modules Overview

High-Quality Instructional Materials

HQIM: Instructional Modules Overview

These practice-based modules prepare future teachers to identify, analyze, and use high-quality instructional materials.

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Policy Resources

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Mobilizing Aspiring Teachers as Tutors: A Policy Framework

Policy and Advocacy, Tutoring

Mobilizing Aspiring Teachers as Tutors: A Policy Framework

This policy framework articulates the role policy leaders must take to create conditions to mobilize hundreds of thousands more tutors.

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National Guidelines for Apprenticeship Standards for K-12 Teacher Apprenticeships

Policy and Advocacy

National Guidelines for Apprenticeship Standards for K-12 Teacher Apprenticeships

Access comprehensive guidelines for high-quality educator apprenticeship programs based on field data, published by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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High-Quality Registered Apprenticeships

Policy and Advocacy

High-Quality Registered Apprenticeships

Learn best practices and insights on building, launching, and sustaining high-quality Registered Apprenticeship programs for teachers

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PATHS to Tutor Act

Policy and Advocacy, Tutoring

PATHS to Tutor Act

The PATHS to Tutor Act would support student learning acceleration and strengthen pipelines into teaching.

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Research-to-Practice Publications

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The Science of Learning

Science of Learning

The Science of Learning

This report summarizes existing cognitive-science research on how students learn and connects it to practical implications for teaching.

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Practice with Purpose: The Emerging Science of Teacher Expertise

Science of Learning

Practice with Purpose: The Emerging Science of Teacher Expertise

This report connects the principles of deliberate practice with the methods used to prepare and develop teaching skill.

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A Promising Future for Math Instruction: Preparing Effective Teachers and Tutors

Science of Learning, Data and Assessments, Mathematics, High-Quality Instructional Materials

A Promising Future for Math Instruction: Preparing Effective Teachers and Tutors

This report reveals insights from piloting elementary math training modules with teacher preparation and tutoring programs.

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Deepening Meaning and Learning

Science of Learning, Data and Assessments

Deepening Meaning and Learning

This report from our Learning by Scientific Design Network examines data and insights on using learning science to support all students.

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Lessons from the Field

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Building Blocks: Four Elements of Effective Teacher Preparation

Science of Learning

Building Blocks: Four Elements of Effective Teacher Preparation

This report highlights the work of 4 practice-based educator-preparation programs and the strategies they use to prepare skillful beginning teachers.

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Learning Science Consortium

Science of Learning

Learning Science Consortium

This EPP-district collaborative supports aspiring and early-career teachers to ground instructional practice in the science of learning.

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A Promising Future for Math Instruction: Preparing Effective Teachers and Tutors

Science of Learning, Data and Assessments, Mathematics, High-Quality Instructional Materials

A Promising Future for Math Instruction: Preparing Effective Teachers and Tutors

This report reveals insights from piloting elementary math training modules with teacher preparation and tutoring programs.

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Deepening Meaning and Learning

Science of Learning, Data and Assessments

Deepening Meaning and Learning

This report from our Learning by Scientific Design Network examines data and insights on using learning science to support all students.

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Tools and Resources

Instructional Tools and Materials

Science of Learning: Teacher Action Anchor Charts

Science of Learning: Coaching Tools

Early Literacy Foundational Skills: Instructional Modules Overview

HQIM: Instructional Modules Overview

Policy Resources

Mobilizing Aspiring Teachers as Tutors: A Policy Framework

National Guidelines for Apprenticeship Standards for K-12 Teacher Apprenticeships

High-Quality Registered Apprenticeships

PATHS to Tutor Act

Research-to-Practice Publications

The Science of Learning

Practice with Purpose: The Emerging Science of Teacher Expertise

A Promising Future for Math Instruction: Preparing Effective Teachers and Tutors

Deepening Meaning and Learning

Lessons from the Field

Building Blocks: Four Elements of Effective Teacher Preparation

Learning Science Consortium

A Promising Future for Math Instruction: Preparing Effective Teachers and Tutors

Deepening Meaning and Learning

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