Advancing Coherence: Aligning Educator Preparation With California’s English Learner Roadmap Policy
The purpose of this brief is to support English Learner success by encouraging stronger alignment between teacher preparation efforts in IHEs and TK-12 policies and practices. Based on our finding that there is currently insufficient alignment between the ELR and IHE educator preparation programs, we put forth actionable policy and practice recommendations – including the use of the California English Learner Roadmap Toolkit for Institutes of Higher Education (IHEs)3 – to ensure educational partners who play
a role in educator preparation have the resources needed to encourage greater coherence across sectors in support of English Learners.