Essential Actions

Essential Actions describe what the most effective EPPs do to support powerful educator preparation.

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Essential Action 1

Vision, Mission, Guiding Principles

Program establishes a vision, mission, and guiding principles for educator preparation with alignment among all key stakeholders including the EPP, partnering district(s), and community organizations.

KP 1.1

Establishes a vision for teacher candidate success and a compelling mission that is informed by teacher candidate, faculty and staff, and community needs.

KP 1.2

Establishes guiding principles and commitments to foster mindsets and operating norms centered on continuous improvement to achieve the program’s vision.

KP 1.3

Consistently partners with key internal and external stakeholders (i.e., district partners, key organizational leadership, teacher candidates and alumni etc.), for feedback and support to build commitment to the program's vision, mission, and guiding principles. 

KP 1.4

Consistently communicates and reinforces the vision for teacher candidate success, mission, and programmatic guiding principles with key internal and external stakeholders. 

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Essential Action 2

Strategic Planning

Program develops and refines a multi-year strategic plan with high-leverage strategies to support the achievement of vision-aligned goals.

KP 2.1

Engages key internal leadership and external partners to develop multiyear top-line goals centered on teacher preparation quality, using baseline data as a starting point.

KP 2.2

Articulates strategic priorities in a coherent theory of action to accomplish the vision for teacher preparation.

KP 2.3

Develops a roadmap for key systems that will enable the execution of the theory of action for accomplishing the vision and aligned goals.

KP 2.4

Develops a multi-year strategic plan that is aligned to the key strategies and theory of action and supported by program leadership and key stakeholders.

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Essential Action 3

Implementation, Monitoring, and Reflection

Program consistently implements, monitors, and reflects on progress towards goals and leading actions within the strategic plan.

KP 3.1

Provides access to, training on, and integration of data systems in practice for all preparation program staff and faculty and prioritizes the ongoing collection of reliable, leading, formative measures.

KP 3.2

Implements key strategies aligned to the topline goals and their timebound objectives with fidelity.

KP 3.3

Measures timebound objectives that support prioritized goals, including performance relative to intended priority outcomes.

KP 3.4

Monitors progress toward goals related to coherence and successful implementation of partnership practice, talent recruitment and management, curriculum, and training, and instructional and support.

KP 3.5

Establishes performance routines that strengthen the practice of individual faculty and staff to address and achieve prioritized outcomes.

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Essential Action 4

Continuous Improvement Practices

Program demonstrates a programmatic-wide commitment to continuous improvement in mindsets, practices, and enabling conditions for systematic collection, analysis, and use of most important data to make programmatic decisions.

KP 4.1

Defines clear roles and responsibilities for monitoring the quality of the teacher preparation program, including monitoring the efficacy of data review practices.

KP 4.2

Conducts a regular analysis of key data points relating to programmatic goals, with LEA partners, to make decisions and apply support to improve teacher candidate outcomes and program quality.

KP 4.3

Provides ongoing and responsive training, feedback, and support to program faculty and staff to improve program practices that address objectives and goals for teacher candidate success (i.e., teacher educator pedagogy for practice-based preparation, effective coaching and feedback practices, etc.).

KP 4.4

Regularly monitors and performance manages the organizational approach to continuous improvement for its utility and efficacy to improve and reach intended programmatic outcomes.