Practice-Based Learning 0pportunities (PLOs) provide teachers the much needed time to rehearse, refine, and improve teaching skills in order to successfully implement high leverage practices. The CEEDAR Center states that "Through PLOs, teacher candidates and practicing teachers are provided: 1) models that help candidates/teachers understand how to enact specific HLPs; 2) models of how HLPs can be enacted successfully; 3) opportunities to use the HLPs in simulated or authentic settings, and, 4) opportunities to receive feedback on and analyze their use of the HLPs." (highleveragepractices.org, 2021) It's not enough to know which practices are most effective, teachers need to be able to implement them successfully in order to favorably impact student learning.

The CEEDAR Center, in collaboration with Educator Preparation Program faculty across the country, collected the following PLOs, based on the four stages of McDonald's Learning Enactment Cycle (McDonald et al, 2013). Please note that this common framework for professional preparation and development can be leveraged with any PLO that builds a teacher's effective implementation of a high leverage practice.

It is ACEPP's intent to provide Educator Preparation Programs and professional development providers across our state with effective practice opportunities that will improve the quality of instruction that teacher educators provide to all students (general education and special education populations). Below are three example PLOs. These and others PLOs can be found at the CEEDAR Center website as well as the highleveragepractices.org site .