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Three policy recommendations are identified: diversifying pathways into the teaching profession, catalyzing innovation to redesign teacher preparation, and developing meaningful systems of assessments and evaluation. The brief also articulates specific policy actions for each recommendation which include: increasing affordability and institute incentives to expand and diversifying the teacher workforce, supporting innovation in teacher education to enable 21st-century learning and helping states build balanced systems of assessments to support 21<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-century learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The recommendations describe actions for federal policymakers to enable and enact the vision described in the previous <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Competency<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Works report, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inacol.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Moving-Toward-Mastery.pdf\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing, and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This issue brief highlights federal policy opportunities to improve and modernize professional learning and development for educators&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8793,"template":"","issue":[61,377,368,375,392,393,403],"organizations":[36],"resource_topics":[145,189],"resource_types":[7],"class_list":["post-8791","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issue-federal-policy","issue-state-policy","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-design-for-educational-equity","issue-develop-educator-capacity","issue-support-professional-learning","issue-modernize-diversify-the-educator-leader-workforce","organizations-inacol","resource_topics-policy","resource_topics-professional-learning","resource_types-issue-brief"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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