Our Reach

Our mission is to create a system for teacher preparation and support that will make skillful beginning teaching that disrupts inequity commonplace. We know that establishing such a system with a professional standard for entry-level practice can only happen if we work collectively. Thus, we have partnered strategically with researchers, scholars, practitioners, policy makers, school districts, alternative and traditional teacher preparation programs, and teacher preparation centers from across the country. Through these various partnerships, we have supported efforts to identify and learn practices of teaching that are particularly “high-leverage” for beginning and early career teachers. We have offered professional development, trainings, seminars, and consultations to support teacher educators in learning practice-based methods to prepare beginning teachers—methods that allow beginning teachers to engage in practice before they enter the classroom.