National Education Leaders: What You Need to Know about Privacy and Classroom Video Recordings for Teacher Preparation

This document provides national-level guidance on protecting student and educator privacy while expanding the use of classroom video in teacher preparation. It highlights how video supports candidate reflection and performance assessment, now required by many states and programs. It stresses the responsibility of faculty and administrators to ensure videos are collected and shared securely, with parental consent and adherence to privacy laws and local policies. Developed by a national task force, the principles clarify acceptable and unacceptable uses of classroom video to support ethical, high-quality teacher preparation.

This resource is part of the Visibly Better project, an initiative designed to create a vision for the future around the use of video for professional learning.