Teacher Preparation

The Teacher Preparation Toolkit provides a repository of resources related to encouraging and inspiring future educators for equity and inclusion - important aspects of educator preparation. Resources can be filtered by category and media type.

Generally, these resources are available at no cost or through a subscription carried by CSU campus libraries.

  • SWIFT Schools

    The SWIFT education center  is a national technical assistance center that builds whole system—state, district, school, and community—capacity to provide academic and behavioral support to improve outcomes for all students. SWIFT has resources and videos related to MTSS as well as tools for administrators and teachers to use at their school sites. The "SWIFT Shelf" page also has research and white papers related to inclusive approaches.

    Content Areas: Arts, General, Language Arts, Math, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies
    Categories: Emergent Bilinguals/ ELS, Inclusive Practices, Other, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education
    Media Type: Organization Website, Standards/Guidelines
    Submitted by: Amy Hanreddy  amy.hanreddy@csun.edu

  • Taking Deeper Learning to Scale (2017)

    The Taking Deeper Learning to Scale  report analyzes the efforts of schools and school districts to improve academic achievement, particularly among students who have historically underperformed. Three cases are presented to reveal the potential of using deeper learning as a reform strategy that can lead to greater equity in academic outcomes.

    Published by: The Learning Policy Institute  

    Author: Pedro A. Noguera

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Equity
    Media Type: Other
    Submitted by: Joan Bissell  jbissell@calstate.edu

  • Teachers, Please Learn Our Names!: Racial Microaggressions and the K-12 Classroom

    This qualitative study examines how teachers' mispronunciation of students' names may be the result of racial microaggressions.

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Anti-bias Education, Cultural Diversity
    Media Type: Article: Research
    Submitted by: Calli Lewis Chiu  clewischiu@fullerton.edu

  • Teaching English Language Learners Tips from the Classroom (2018)

    This article examines effective approaches for teaching English language learners. These include differentiating instruction, encouraging students' intrinsic motivation for academic achievement, and using affirming approaches to correcting student errors.

    Teaching English Language Learners: Tips from the Classroom  (pdf)

    Published by: CEEDAR Center 

    Authors: Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Emergent Bilinguals/ ELS
    Media Type: Article: Conceptual
    Submitted by: Joan Bissell 

  • Teaching Pyramid

    WestEd's Teaching Pyramid  provides a systematic framework that promotes social and emotional development, provides support for children's appropriate behavior, prevents challenging behavior, and addresses problematic behavior. The Teaching Pyramid has many resources and practical strategies for teachers of early childhood education and early elementary focused on social emotional learning and development.   It is based on evidence-based practice originally developed by the Center on the Social Emotional Foundations in Early Learning (CSEFEL), authorized by California Department of Education (CDE), and aligned with California"s Early Learning and Development System.

    Content Areas: Social Studies
    Categories: Inclusive Practices, Social Emotional Learning
    Media Type: Organization Website
    Submitted by: Amanda H. K. Steiman  amst0922@calstateteach.net

  • Teaching Tolerance

    Teaching Tolerance  is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and was founded to prevent the growth of hate. The organization provides free resources to educators to supplement their curriculum and create civil and inclusive school communities.

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Anti-bias Education, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Inclusive Practices, Social Emotional Learning, Social Justice
    Media Type: Organization Website
    Submitted by: Ruth Yopp-Edwards  ryopp@fullerton.edu

  • The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

    The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning  (CSEFEL) is a national resource center out of Vanderbilt University for disseminating research and evidence-based practices to early childhood programs. CSEFEL is focused on promoting the social-emotional development and school readiness of young children from birth to age 5. Though the focus is early childhood, these resources will be useful for early elementary teachers as well. The website's resources page contains many ideas for literature-based lessons and strategies for supporting positive social and emotional development and classroom management.

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Inclusive Practices, Social Emotional Learning
    Media Type: Organization Website
    Submitted by: Amanda H. K. Steiman  amst0922@calstateteach.net

  • The CUNY-NYSIEB Guide to Translanguaging in Latino/a Literature

    This guide offers analysis of language use in 32 works of Latino/a literature that are appropriate for Grades PreK-12, analyzing 17 books for grades PreK-6 and 15 books for grades 7-12. The analysis of each book includes lexile level, themes, author biography and website, a list of supplemental resources, a summary of the book, and an analysis of the way that the author uses translanguaging, the flexible use of linguistic resources, in literature.

    The CUNY-­‐NYSIEB Guide to Translanguaging in Latino/a Literature  (pdf)

    Content Areas: General, Language Arts
    Categories: Anti-bias Education, Cultural Diversity, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Diverse Income Levels, Emergent Bilinguals/ ELS, Equity, Gender Diversity, Inclusive Practices, Language Diversity, Social Justice
    Media Type: Other, Standards/Guidelines
    Submitted by: Fernando Rodriguez-Valls  frodriguez-valls@fullerton.edu

  • The Danger of a Single Story

    In this TED Talk, Adichie explores the trouble in identifying a person or entire culture through stereotypes that arise because of limited exposure to multiple experiences, or stories, of a person or culture.

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Cultural Diversity, Social Justice
    Media Type: Video
    Submitted by: Calli Lewis Chiu  clewischiu@fullerton.edu

  • The Privilege Walk Exercise

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Anti-bias Education, Cultural Diversity, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Diverse Income Levels, Equity, Gender Diversity, Inclusive Practices, Language Diversity, Social Emotional Learning, Social Justice
    Media Type: Other

  • The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

    Lisa Delpit's book makes use of vignettes and personal dialogue to discuss how educators have used language as a way to segregate and alienate students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Cultural Diversity, Diverse Income Levels, Language Diversity
    Media Type: Book
    Submitted by: Calli Lewis Chiu  clewischiu@fullerton.edu

  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

    Anne Fadiman's book chronicles the true story of a young Hmong girl who is considered to have a spiritual gift that is, in western culture, identified as epilepsy.  The book documents the clash between the family's desire to honor their daughter's gift and the Americans' desires to treat the epilepsy.

    Content Areas: General
    Categories: Cultural Diversity
    Media Type: Book
    Submitted by: Calli Lewis Chiu  clewischiu@fullerton.edu