Improving Access & Affordability of High-Quality Teacher Preparation
- Are you interested in evaluating your teacher residency, apprenticeship, Grow Your Own, or traditional preparation program?
- Are you looking for ways to ensure the long-term financial sustainability for your program and improve affordability for candidates?
- Are you wondering if your program is on track to meet its goals?
WestEd will be hosting Evaluation & Fiscal Sustainability Office Hours at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) 2025 Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA, February 21–23, 2025.
Who Should Attend Office Hours
- Teacher preparation program leadership, including faculty, administrators, and financial aid staff
- District partners supporting teacher preparation, recruitment, hiring, and placement
- District chief business officers or other budget and school finance staff
Learn how we can help you with grant evaluations, the development of program logic models, and exploring fiscal strategies to make your program more financially sustainable and affordable to candidates.
Visit WestEd’s booth in the Exhibit Hall to meet and speak with our team!
Office Hours at the Exhibit Hall
Where:
AACTE Exhibit Hall, Booth #311
When:
Friday, February 21: 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 22: 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
More About Our Educator Preparation Evaluation Services
To address teacher shortages, school districts and higher education institutions nationwide are investing billions of dollars in teacher preparation programs and on-the-job supports. WestEd can serve as an impartial evaluation partner for such initiatives to help ensure high-quality implementation and determine whether you’re meeting your teacher workforce goals.
Visit our website to learn more about our services and download helpful resources:
- WestEd’s Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Program Evaluation Framework (PDF)
- Improving Access and Affordability of High-Quality Teacher Preparation (Infographic)
- Evaluation of Teacher Residency Grant Program (Webpage)
- Impacts of the Community Partnerships for Teacher Pipeline Program on Community College Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study (PDF)
Featured Experts
Jaclyn Tejwani is a program evaluator with more than 20 years of experience. Her specific expertise is in studying teacher preparation programs including residencies, apprenticeships, Grow-Your-Own, and alternative certification programs. Tejwani engages thoughtfully with partners to evaluate programs, study implementation and outcomes, and provide data-related technical assistance and evidenced-based recommendations to improve program effectiveness. Tejwani is especially passionate about increasing the number of high-quality educators who share the background of the students they teach, supporting educational practices that affirm students’ cultural identities, improving students’ experiences at all levels of the educational system through mentorship, and including program participants as part of the evaluation process.
Alberto Heredia has 25 years of experience evaluating local and state initiatives for a variety of clients, including teacher and leader preparation programs, school districts, foundations, community-based organizations, and state and federal departments of education. His most recent evaluation work focuses on teacher residency, grow your own, and community college teacher preparation pathways.
John Diaz’s research focuses education policy, critical approaches to school finance, and systems development. Diaz provides financial technical assistance to states, districts, and educator preparation programs on issues of resource allocation planning, teacher preparation program infrastructure and fiscal sustainability and critical policy analysis. Diaz co-led the development of educator preparation program affordability and sustainability resources for aspiring teachers and program providers in California, and currently leads WestEd’s funding and sustainability TA and coaching for the Educator Registered Apprenticeship industry intermediary project, supporting programs across the country in improving affordability and fiscal sustainability.