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Building Trusting Relationships Starts Here

This month we're sharing some special insights and resources from our Director of Transformative Practice Integration, Rachel Bacosa. Read below for her reflections on building trust with students in order to strengthen relationships, and learning. Valuable practices and resource included!

A New Framework for Human-Centered AI Integration

Over the past year we have had the privilege of partnering with the Residency Lab at the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation, and an incredible community of educator preparation leaders from across California, to explore one important question: How can educator preparation programs prepare future educators to integrate AI in...

How We Bring the Anchor Competencies to Life

As I’ve reflected lately on what makes a partnership effective, I keep returning to a few questions: How do we choose the right partners to move important work forward? How do we ensure alignment, meaningful communication, and trust?

Reimagining Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Starts Here

Over the last year, our Center has had the incredible opportunity to partner with the Early Childhood Institute at San Jose State University to explore the potential of our Anchor Competencies Framework and professional learning offerings for early childhood teacher educators and teachers.

A Story I Can’t Stop Thinking About…

This past week, my husband and I visited my son Bram’s kindergarten classroom to celebrate his “school” birthday – something that the teachers do to ensure that students with summer birthdays have the chance to be celebrated.

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