The study highlights a new structured mentorship and training framework, the Spears-Braisted BRIDGE Framework, to guide the work.
This case study, provides EPP-district teams with:
- Detailed steps to take as an EPP-district partnership to deepen alignment between early literacy coursework, a district’s vision for excellent literacy instruction and materials, and preservice teacher experiences in classrooms
- Tools and resources EPP-district partnerships can use to revise literacy coursework and plan for aligned classroom practicum experiences for preservice teachers
- Approaches to measuring the impact of pilot efforts in early literacy settings that focus on revising preservice and mentor teacher support models