"Teachers Currently Teaching Without Preliminary Certification"

  • Development of individual profesional growth plans for all teachers focused on completing requirements for certification
  • Financial support for courses and test preparation
  • Professional development in the disctricts that includes resources for classrooms (instructional materials and manipulatives, algebra tiles)
  • Support for teaching and learning teams that focus on content and pedagogy (including strategies for ELL)
  • Use of exemplar videos as models for content and pedagogy
  • Support for conferences that focus on content and pedagogy
  • Flexible scheduling to make courses more accessible
  • Use distance learning and online classes to increase access to courses

The focus at all levels in the districts and at the university

will center on the content in the California Frameworks