Instructional Tools and Materials
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Mathematics, High-Quality Instructional Materials
HQIM: Elementary Math Lesson Internalization Protocol and Template
This resource overviews how lesson internalization helps a teacher analyze the ways different components of their lesson support the learning goal.
Early Literacy Syllabication Resources
These teacher-educator assignments, one-pagers, and videos provide tips and best practices to support early readers to decode longer words.
Learning by Scientific Design: Instructional Modules Overview
These modules provide practice-based, actionable learning opportunities for teachers and those that prepare them.
Science of Learning: Coaching Tools
These resources provide clinical educators with tips for observing and coaching novice and aspiring teachers.
Policy Resources
View AllMobilizing 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.
PATHS to Tutor Act
The PATHS to Tutor Act would support student learning acceleration and strengthen pipelines into teaching.

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.
Modernizing Teacher Preparation Policy
We offer three areas in educator preparation that are ripe for improvement and that policy can meaningfully influence.
Towards a National Definition of Residencies
This report guides policies that can support high-quality residencies to attract, prepare, and retain a robust and diverse teaching workforce.
Research-to-Practice Publications
View AllThe Science of Learning
This report summarizes existing cognitive-science research on how students learn and connects it to practical implications for teaching.
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.
The Science of Early Learning
This report summarizes current cognitive-science research related to how young children develop skills across agency, literacy, and numeracy.
The Content of Thinking
This report highlights strategies to develop content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge among future teachers.
Confidence and Capability: Data and Insights on Teacher Preparedness
This Year 2 analysis from our Common Indicators System Network builds on initial findings to expand understanding of teacher-candidate preparedness.
Lessons from the Field
View AllBuilding 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.
Learning by Scientific Design Podcast
Hear from program faculty and a mentor-teacher on their experiences putting learning science into practice.
The Content of Thinking
This report highlights strategies to develop content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge among future teachers.
Confidence and Capability: Data and Insights on Teacher Preparedness
This Year 2 analysis from our Common Indicators System Network builds on initial findings to expand understanding of teacher-candidate preparedness.
Leading by Collaborating, with the Louisiana Department of Education
Explore our partnership to strengthen the capacity of Louisiana's teacher ed programs for the rigors of more ambitious academic content.