The Illinois State Board of Education is enhancing and expanding the Illinois Educator Preparation Profile (IEPP) to strengthen transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement across all educator preparation programs in Illinois. This work, aligned with
ISBE's Strategic Plan Goal 1.4.2, will extend the IEPP beyond teacher preparation to include school support personnel and administrative programs, ensuring a comprehensive view of educator readiness statewide.
ISBE's vision for this robust data collection effort is driven by the need for a better approach to the current process. The system provides a critical connection between the state and educator preparation programs to facilitate program improvement and provide valuable information to programs, prospective teachers, potential employers, and the general public. The IEPP was developed to be fair, clear, and supportive:
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Fair: Measures program performance and provides metrics in context, ensuring results are not biased by program demographics.
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Clear: Presents program performance in a way that is understandable to program staff, PK-12 educators, prospective candidates, and the public.
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Supportive: Offers equitable supports to programs based on their context.
The IEPP enhancement and expansion will lead to higher-quality and streamlined data collection and reporting, improved usability of public-facing data, and stronger alignment between educator preparation and student learning needs.
A key component of this work includes the Principal Preparation Pilot, launching in February 2026, which will provide valuable insight into principal preparation program outcomes and inform the development of indicators, scores, and weights for future IEPP reporting.
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