CalStateTEACH

The California State University’s Online Teacher Education Preparation Program

CalStateTEACH is an award-winning online teacher preparation program serving every county of California. 

It is a designated Apple Distinguished Program that embraces innovation, leadership, and educational excellence and demonstrates a consistent vision of exemplary learning environments. 

Its Mobile Learning Initiative has contributed to the expansion of access to teacher preparation and to diminishing the “digital divide” in public schools. 

CalStateTEACH offers a spiraling, integrated curriculum that includes classroom management, learning theory, content pedagogy, integrated educational technology, animation and coding. 

Its curriculum is based on the California Teaching Performance Expectations (TPEs), the California Standards f​or the Teaching Profession (CSTP), 21st-century skills, and cognition and learning research. 

Although there is no physical campus, CalStateTEACH candidates, faculty, staff and regional directors build a campus community just as traditional candidates do. The difference is that the community is online.

Dr. Ernest Black
Systemwide Director, CalStateTEACH
Chancellor's Office of the California State University
401 Golden Shore
Long Beach, CA 90802
(562) 951-4118 Office
(562) 951-4152 Fax
eblack@calstate.edu

Dr. Ernest Black, a former K-12 teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School district, has been serving as the Regional Director for the Southern Region of CST for the past six years. In this role, he provided leadership to the full range of online teacher preparation programs that CST has to offer. He has played a key role in liaising between CST and CSU Los Angeles & CSU Fullerton. He has worked with the Colleges of Education at both sites and developed partnership opportunities with them in the areas of PK-12 reforms, alternative certification pathways, induction programs, professional development, technology, and recruitment strategies. Dr. Black has deep experience with recruiting teachers of color, specifically, male teachers of color.