Teachers apply knowledge about each student to activate an approach to learning that strengthens and reinforces each student’s participation, engagement, connection, and sense of belonging.

Teachers create and uphold a safe, caring, and intellectually stimulating learning environment that affirms student agency, voice, identity, and development and promotes equity and inclusivity.

Teachers integrate content, processes, materials, and resources into coherent, culturally relevant, and equitable curricula that engage and challenge students to develop the academic and social–emotional knowledge and skills required to become competent and resourceful learners.

Teachers set a purposeful direction for instruction and learning activities, intentionally planning and enacting challenging and relevant learning experiences that foster each student’s academic and social–emotional development.

Teachers employ equitable assessment practices to help identify students’ interests and abilities, to reveal what they know and can do, and to determine what students need to learn. Teachers use varied assessment information to advance and monitor student progress as well as to guide their own and students’ actions to improve learning experiences and outcomes.

Teachers develop as effective and caring professional educators by engaging in relevant and high-quality professional learning experiences that increase their teaching capacities, leadership development, and personal well-being. Doing so enables teachers to support each student to learn and thrive.