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This brief and accompanying report offers recommendations for how state agencies can measure and promote social and emotional learning in their accountability and continuous improvement plans.

This literature review and innovation configuration matrix helps teacher preparation professionals self-assess the extent to which culturally responsive teaching practices are taught, observed, and applied within teacher preparation and professional development programs.

This Course Enhancement Module (CEM) on culturally relevant education is a compilation of resources intended for use in the development and enhancement of teacher and leadership education courses as well as for professional development programs for practitioners. This CEM provides foundational knowledge related to culturally relevant education, including common terms, examples in selected content areas, and information about managing the classroom and individual behaviors.

This Course Enhancement Module (CEM) on inclusive education is a compilation of resources intended for use in the development and enhancement of teacher and leadership education courses as well as for professional development programs for practitioners. The resources are designed to support a schoolwide approach to delivering supports and services to students with disabilities in general education settings.

This tool outlines key competencies for effective inclusive principal leadership within the framework of the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL) 2015. It also includes actions states can take to ensure all principals are prepared to create and lead learning environments that meet the needs of students with disabilities.

This policy and practice portrait helps educator preparation programs support educators to be conscious of their own perspectives and biases, have deep knowledge of their students’ cultural backgrounds, establish professional learning communities characterized by multicultural awareness and high expectations, and empower students to become informed citizens through critical thinking skills and informed perspectives.

This website provides access to reports, briefs, and other resources summarizing the growing body of research and best practices for school leadership, with a focus on principal training, development, evaluation, supervision, pipelines, and policy.

This online guide helps states establish a vision for and advance policies and practices that develop and support principals to lead inclusive schools. The guide identifies eight key strategies and supporting example actions that state education agencies can take to advance effective inclusive principal leadership across a principal’s career in partnership with districts and educator preparation programs.

This brief from the Learning Policy Institute details how local and state policymakers can leverage federal ESSA funding to strengthen principal preparation and development.

This literature review and innovation configuration matrix can guide principal preparation professionals in the development of program content and courses that promote inclusive and high-achieving schools for students with disabilities.