Transforming Inequitable Structures | Center for Transformational Educator Preparation Programs

Q: My program has a strong focus on equitable education, but how do we know that the strategies we teach are effective?

Inequalities Text This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.
Inequalities (media)
- (Video) The Rock Collectors This link will take you to an external website in a new tab. (A Story About Systemic Inequity and the Need To Create Change)
Racial Inequalities Text This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.
Racial Inequalities (media)
- (Video) History of Multicultural USA This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.
- (Video) Interview with Ronald Takaki This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.
Privilege Texts
Equity Work in Higher Education Texts This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.
Equity Work in Higher Education (media)
- (Video) Solorzano, D. (2013, April 5). Critical Race Theory Part I. This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.
- (Video) Bess, M. (2020, July 1 ). What Does it Mean to be Anti-Racist? [Video]. This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.

Q: My program has a strong focus on equitable education, but it’s not clear that all courses and faculty are truly implementing some of our principles. How do we become more coherent?

Q: How do we help our completers grow what they learned in our program, despite norms in their school sites to not fight inequity?

Q: How do we collect stories of success from our alumni?

Report: Building strong partnerships to improve clinically oriented teacher preparation This link will open a PDF file from an external website in a new tab. Describes how participating CSU campuses and their partner school districts strengthened their relationships and developed strategic partnerships to establish the necessary foundations for high-quality, clinically oriented programming.includes multiple specific examples from CSU teacher preparation programs. (Source: WestEd)
Report excerpt (CSU example): New Generation of Educators Initiative: Transforming teacher preparationThis link will open a PDF file. (pdf) (see Chapter 2 pages 22 - 27) In Chapter 2, “Building University and School District Partnerships,” authors from CSU Stanislaus reflect on their experiences as they built broad and deep partnerships in their local communities and beyond, all focused on preparing effective educators who would have an impact on the diverse California student population. (Source: CSU)
Report: Going Further Together: Building Ownership and Engagement to Support High-Quality Teacher Preparation This link will take you to an external website in a new tab. Examples from teacher preparation across the country to build ownership and engagement within and across institutions in teacher preparation. (Source: WestEd and Prepared to Teach at Bank Street)