PK-12 Administrators: What You Need to Know about Privacy and Classroom Video Recordings for Teacher Preparation

This guide is designed for school and district administrators who play a key role in supporting teacher preparation programs that use classroom video. It explains how video helps candidates reflect on and improve their practice, while also being used for official performance assessments required for licensure. The document emphasizes protecting student and educator privacy, noting that federal, state, and local policies apply, and it introduces principles developed by a national task force to guide secure and ethical video use.

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.