Standards for Preparation and Professional Development for Teachers of Engineering
This resource describes best practices needed to integrate engineering into teacher preparation programs.

Constructing 21st-Centruy Teacher Education
Much of what teachers need to know to be successful is invisible to lay observers, leading to the view that teaching requires little formal study and to frequent disdain for teacher education programs. This article argues that we have learned a great deal about how to create stronger, more effective teacher education programs. Three critical components of such programs include tight coherence and integration among courses and between course work and clinical work in schools, extensive and intensely supervised clinical work integrated with course work using pedagogies that link theory and practice, and closer, proactive relationships with schools that serve diverse learners effectively and develop and model good teaching. The article also urges that schools of education should resist pressures to water down preparation, which ultimately undermine the preparation of entering teachers, the reputation of schools of education, and the strength of the profession.

What is engineering? Elaborating the nature of engineering for K‐12 education
What is engineering? What do engineers do? How is engineering related to, but distinct from, science? These questions all relate to the nature of engineering (NOE), and as engineering is incorporated into K‐12 education across the United States, the NOE is becoming increasingly important for students and teachers. This paper presents key dimensions of the NOE via a framework synthesized from studies of the engineering discipline from philosophical, historical, and sociological perspectives, as well as perspectives from within the engineering field.

Scientific and Engineering Practices in K-12 Classrooms: Understand a Framework for K-12 Science Education
In this article, Rodger W. Bybee presents the science and engineering practices from the recently released A Framework for K–12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (NRC 2011).

A State Policymaker's STEM Playbook
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has captured the attention of state policymakers who are concerned about equitable access to high-quality educational experiences and preparing and inspiring students to pursue STEM careers. Yet in many states, STEM policymaking efforts have not achieved their intended return on investment because programs are missing one or more of three essential elements...

Effective STEM Teacher Preparation, Induction, and Professional Development
Offering a high quality education to all U.S. students and building the educational system to support their teachers are topics of much concern and investment, passion and critique. Teacher quality is at the core of those ardent discussions, with calls for the reform and critical review of teacher preparation, induction, and professional development programs.

The Gateway to the Profession: Assessing Teacher Preparation Programs Based on Student Achievement
In this report, Dan Goldhaber and Stephanie Liddle of the Center for Education Data & Research at the University of Washington Bothell present research on the extent to which teacher training programs explain the variation in teacher effectiveness, as well as how individual training programs in Washington compare, based on the effectiveness of the teachers they produce. They use administrative data linking each teacher's initial teaching endorsement to student achievement on state tests. They find the majority of these programs produce teachers who are no more or less effective than teachers who are trained outside of Washington. However, we also see meaningful variation in the effectiveness of teachers trained at in-state programs.

Assignment rules and lookup
An interactive table of course names and endorsements that would be counted as "in assignment" for teaching each course. Created and maintained by the Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB).

Teacher Diversity in Washington State
A short article about teacher diversity in Washington State from the Seattle Times.

The Teacher Shortage in Washington: Current Status and Actions to Address it
A presentation of the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the House Education Committee, Jan 24, 2017