Students have two semesters of student teaching. They complete CalTPA Cycle 1 in their first placement and CalTPA Cycle 2 in their second semester. The student teaching placement policies are designed to meet TPA requirements by including students with special needs and multilingual learners (LINK still PENDING).
We use Pearons' centralized scoring
Policy is clearly stated in the CalTPA handbook and reviewed in the CalTPA support seminar.