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The alliance took ownership of the model in late 2018 and through 2019 we worked with the initial pilot implementations and the budding community of preparation providers (through the TPDM work group) to understand the needs of the community and how the model could help. Some of the feedback from Principal and Superintendent focused programs was "what about us?" As we examined the model and talked with these providers the conclusion we came to was that there was no reason that the model could not support other types of educator preparation programs, but the fact that the name of the model as well as many of the elements within the model have "Teacher" in the name, was confusing. . The fact remained, however, that the model was very heavily skewed towards teacher, especially in name.
In 2020 we started work on revisions to the model based on the feedback we had received from the community as well as some adjustments to the model which would bring the model more in line with Ed-Fi design principles and ready it for being included in the core Data Standard. Within this scope of work was fixing the naming issue. We weren't ready to totally do away with TPDM just yet (more on that in a bit), so the the name of the model itself did not change, but most everything else did. With the release of TPDM v1.0 in January 2021, we removed teacher specific references were removed from the model (TeacherCandidate became Candidate, TeacherPreparationProvider became EducatorPreparationProvider, and so on).
Over the years TPDM has become a term to refer to anything related to Educator Preparation at the Alliance. We had the model itself, TPDM Work GroupAs the months passed and we star
In it's infancy, TPDM was very focused heavily on teachers, having elements such as TeacherCandidate and TeacherPreparationProvider. Ed-Fi was also focused on Data Standards (we are a standards organization after all!) and how those standards can assist the community
After years of supporting larger (in time, scope, and cost) implementations of the Data Standard
In 2021 the Alliance adjusted it's focus to try and offer quick wins for the community through our starter kit offerings
Starter kits are meant to offer quick and easy ways to get the most important questions answered. TPDM work group and in the beginning of 2021 we were set to introduce starter kits, powered by the data model. With the starter kits we made a conscious effort to focus them toward Educator Preparation Providers and not to mention teacher, unless it was model related.
You will still see TPDM scattered around, primarily in the technology