About Us
Vision and Mission
We are a community that has cultivated transcultural, translingual, and transnational dispositions for generations and continues this tradition in our practices as educators and researchers. We value academic freedom, relationships, creativity, technological innovation, and knowledge grounded in lived experiences. Our commitment is to pluralistic education in partnership with schools and research that sustains and fosters the ecological, economic, cultural, linguistic, and social well-being of our translocal community.
- Design and implement innovative programs aimed at co-creating knowledge and professional competencies productive of critical and divergent thinking as well as problem-solving.
- Cultivate student resilience, social emotional strengths, and intellectual curiosity.
- Foster equity and academic freedom in intellectual pursuits.
- Nurture community perspectives and collaboration in teaching and community engagement.
- Engage in reflective, critical, and transformative practices that inspire a lifelong commitment to excellence in education.
- Respect differences and affirm multiplicity of lived experiences and voices.
- Develop and promote programs to support transcultural, translingual, transnational learning.
As the largest Hispanic Serving Institution in the Continental US, our mission is to produce reflective and culturally and linguistically sustaining educators through a coherent teacher preparation program. emphasizing the following four pillars
The four pillars are the center of our mission: (a) practice-based teacher education, (b) reflective inquiry, (c) technology integration, and (d) spiraled high leveraged practices. In producing critical educators for the Rio Grande Valley, the state of Texas, the region and beyond, we understand that collaborative relationships through community engagement and school partnerships provide the foundations of our efforts.
Accreditation
The UTRGV Educator Preparation Program is nationally accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) meeting rigorous standards and processes for educator preparation through quality assurance and continuous improvement.