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Strategic Candidate Pipelines & Workforce Alignment
Strong pipelines connect workforce needs to the full candidate journey, helping people enter preparation, progress toward readiness, complete, and move into the roles schools need.
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 pathway and trace the full route. What workforce need was it designed to address? Who does it serve? How do candidates enter and progress? Where do they demonstrate readiness? Do they complete? And are they moving toward the roles the pathway was intended to strengthen?
When that line remains visible from workforce need through candidate readiness and into teaching, access and quality can reinforce one another. Programs can respond to real workforce challenges while still preparing candidates to meet the expectations P-12 students deserve.
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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