This event enables teacher educators to unpack and practice the work of coaching and supporting beginning teachers to build their instructional skills in a supportive and dynamic environment. The 2023 Winter Coaching Institute will be held January 20-21 in Woodand Hills, CA. Click below to register by December 15, 2022.

July 30–31, 2026
If you are responsible for designing a course inside a teacher education program—or even an entire program—you should join us for the Backwards Design Institute for Teacher Educators. In this focused, one-and-a-half-day event, we will apply the tenets of backwards design to teacher education to explore how teacher educators can develop a clear, shared vision of what teacher candidates will learn to do in their programs and how to use that vision to shape their courses.

May 14–15, 2026
Already have some experience with practice-based teacher education and looking to keep growing your skills? Join us for this one-and-a-half-day in-person event geared to teacher educators interested in continuing to develop skill with practice-based pedagogies. We will build on the Foundations of Practice-Based Teacher Education Workshop by digging more deeply into several powerful pedagogies of teacher education, including using videos and transcripts to introduce and help teacher candidates practice practice.

One asynchronous and one synchronous session offer strategies for supporting teacher candidates to work productively with multilingual learners. Participants may complete the asynchronous work at any time beginning on December 2, but should have it completed by the synchronous December 9th session.

Asynchronous session materials available: Friday, December 2
Synchronous session: Friday, December 9, 2022, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Susan Atkins

One asynchronous and one synchronous session offer strategies for supporting novice teachers to work productively with English learners.

Susan Atkins

A year-long, blended sequence of learning opportunities for teacher educators interested in building their competency with practice-based teacher education
TeachingWorks staff

July 6–10, 2026
Join us for a week-long Elementary Mathematics Laboratory (EML) that uses live elementary mathematics instruction to explore the complexity of teaching and investigate and challenge what it means to use skillful teaching to disrupt patterns of injustice. Together we’ll unpack instructional decisions, examine mathematics content, and interrogate issues of equity in classrooms to explore how to engage students in mathematics in ways that value their thinking, broaden their ideas of what it means to do mathematics, and advance justice in classrooms.

May 11–13, 2026
Join us for the Foundations of Practice-Based Teacher Education workshop, a two-and-a-half-day in-person event that provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundational ideas and skills of practice-based teacher education and equips participants with the tools and strategies needed to design or redesign instructional activities in their own courses or programs.

Learn to prepare teacher candidates to use K-12 curriculum materials with sensitivity and skill. Sample lesson plans and assessments will be provided in English language arts and mathematics, but teacher educators from all disciplines are welcome.

Session 1: Friday, February 3, 2023 - 3:00-5:00 p.m. (synchronous)
Session 2: Friday, February 10, 2023 - 3:00-5:00 p.m. (synchronous)
Session 3: Friday, February 17, 2023 - 3:00-5:00 p.m. (synchronous)
Session 4: Friday, February 24, 2023 - 3:00-5:00 p.m. (synchronous)

Registration deadline: Friday, January 27, 2023
Francesca Forzani and Heather Beasley

Interested in learning about specific high-leverage practices? Each of these asynchronous courses offers an introduction to a different high-leverage practice. These are introductory courses with no prerequisites, although Introduction to Practice-Based Teacher Education is recommended. You may register for all five courses in this set, or you may opt to register for just one or two courses individually.

One asynchronous and two synchronous sessions offer strategies for supporting novice teachers to identify complex text and make it the center of instruction.

Francesca Forzani and Monique Cherry-McDaniel

One asynchronous and two synchronous sessions offer strategies for supporting novice teachers to build knowledge through content-rich non-fiction.

Francesca Forzani and Monique Cherry-McDaniel

When eliciting and interpreting student thinking, teachers have an opportunity to position students as sense-makers and center their thinking as valuable. Experience an asynchronous introduction to the practice of eliciting and interpreting student thinking. This mini-course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples or instructional tools.

Facilitator: Martha Curren-Preis
Martha Curren-Preis

Teachers set and maintain community expectations and establish classroom environments that preserve students’ dignity and autonomy, while allowing for a productive and safe classroom community. Experience an asynchronous introduction to the practice of establishing and maintaining community expectations. This course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples or instructional tools.
Martha Curren-Preis

Every content area has norms and practices for how people construct and share knowledge. Teaching students these norms and practices, showing why they are important, and providing opportunities to use them is crucial for building understanding and capability in a given subject. Experience an asynchronous introduction to the practice of implementing norms and routines for classroom discourse and work. This course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples or instructional tools.
Martha Curren-Preis

Group discussions provide opportunities for students to make sense of complex ideas together and support one another to speak and listen in ways that advance the classroom community and common good. Experience an asynchronous introduction to the practice of leading a group discussion. This course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples or instructional tools.


Martha Curren-Preis

The practice of explaining and modeling content is about intentionally and thoughtfully providing access to skills, processes, and practices that may otherwise remain hidden to some students. Experience an asynchronous introduction to the practice of modeling and explaining content. This course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, think about why the practice is important for novice teachers, and engage with video examples or instructional tools.

Facilitator: Martha Curren-Preis
Martha Curren-Preis

This workshop familiarizes participants with the basic concepts and tools of practice-based teacher education and equips them with approaches to teaching instructional practice. The 2023 Introduction to Practice-Based Teacher Education Workshop will be held on January 18–19 in Woodland Hills, CA. Click below to register by December 15, 2022.

Three asynchronous sessions define practice-based teacher education, introduce high-leverage practices, including practices for advancing justice; and take participants on a tour of the Learning Cycle, with introductions to practice-based pedagogies.
Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Francesca Forzani

Three asynchronous sessions define practice-based teacher education; introduce high-leverage practices, including practices for advancing justice; and take participants on a tour of the Learning Cycle, with introductions to practice-based pedagogies.
Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Francesca Forzani