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Collaborative Partnerships & Shared Ownership
Candidates benefit when educator preparation programs and P-12 partners are clear about who owns what, where they need to act together, and how shared decisions reach the candidate experience.
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 candidate-development priority that requires both the program and a P-12 partner. Who owns each part, what requires joint action, what evidence should inform decisions, and how will you know the decision reached the candidate experience?
When those responsibilities are clear, partnership becomes part of the system for developing candidates, not simply a relationship surrounding it.
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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