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Mission & Vision Statements

Our Vision and Mission statements are expressions of the center’s goals and aspirations, as well as general overviews of how we plan to go about achieving them.

Vision Statement

We seek to improve outcomes for all students by increasing the ability of practicing educators to apply evidence-based practices with cultural and linguistic competence.

Mission Statement

To serve as a model of excellence for providing resources that prepare and support educators by:

  • Developing innovative, accessible, online educational resources that translate research about evidence-based practices
  • Disseminating online educational resources for use in personnel development and personalized learning
  • Increasing the capacity of pre-service and professional development providers to build educators’ knowledge and skills to use evidence-based practices with cultural and linguistic competence and improve the results for all students.