The Teaching Effective Initiative (TEI) is a voluntary professional development program that provides recognition to instructors invested in growing their teaching practice. The TEI provides a structure to engage in developing teaching effectiveness through implementation, self-reflection, and growth, grounded in the evidence-based teaching practices of the CSU Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF). Participants can earn a Certificate of Achievement in each of the seven domains of the TEF upon completion of professional development experiences,  integration and completion of a reflection equivalent to ten domain experience units (DEUs) as outlined in Domain Experience Units (DEUs) Equivalents by Professional Development Experience. Instructors can take either a “depth” approach and focus on earning only one domain at a time, or choose a “breadth” approach and engage in a variety of domain experiences. At this time, we are not able to offer the TEI for graduate teaching assistants or graduate students; we encourage all graduate students at CSU to participate in the Graduate Teaching Certificate program.