EdFirst Scalability Report

US PREP is proud to partner with other leading Transformation Preparation Transformation Centers across the nation -- supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Education First -- to share our ideas on how best to scale high-quality programming to all teacher candidates. For the past year, we have met to grapple with the most vexing challenges facing our preparation programs, including improving access to high-quality programming. We ground our work in a shared vision and criteria for teacher preparation transformation that believes if teacher preparation programs implement sustainable, quality programming at scale, then more teachers will be better prepared to positively impact outcomes for Black and Latino students and students experiencing poverty. 



In this report, we suggest that focusing on scale -- which we define as high-quality programming that is implemented with all candidates trained by a teacher preparation program -- can help address teacher preparation’s challenge with inequitable access to high-quality programming. We recommend a series of strategies for how teacher preparation programs can scale their high-quality programming and identify examples that can serve as models to inform other programs’ efforts to scale.