Lever 11

Data-Driven Decision-Making & Continuous Improvement

Evidence becomes useful when programs use it to understand candidate development, make focused changes to preparation, and return to see whether those changes helped.

About the 14 Levers

 

EdPrep Partners' 14 Levers for Quality Teacher Preparation translate the EdPrep Performance Framework into practical parts of a preparation system. Together, they show how programs can define quality, develop candidates toward readiness, learn from evidence, and build the conditions for strong preparation to last.

Choose one question about candidate development that matters right now. What evidence would help you understand it, who needs to examine that evidence, what decision could it inform, and when will you return to determine what changed?

When evidence is connected to a real question, the right people, a clear action, and follow-through, it becomes a tool for making preparation stronger.

Every child deserves an excellent educator. Preparing teachers to enter classrooms ready to teach well takes more than strong coursework, clinical experiences, or assessments in isolation. It requires a preparation system that defines what candidates should know and be able to do, deliberately develops them toward those expectations, equips the people responsible for their growth, and continually learns and improves.



The EdPrep Performance Framework defines the systems, practices, and conditions required for high-quality teacher preparation. The 14 Levers for Quality Teacher Preparation translate that definition into the core program elements that shape candidate preparation in practice.


One system.

Designed to work together.

The 14 Levers describe connected parts of a preparation system. They build on and reinforce one another, but they are not a prescribed implementation sequence. Programs begin from different strengths, evidence, needs, and contexts.


Which parts of our preparation system need to move together to strengthen candidate development and readiness?

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