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Teacher education at the University of Idaho, like many other institutions, must balance the demands of competing and complementary standards. At the national level, preservice teacher education often follows the guidelines set forth by the InTASC Standards, ensuring quality preparation across states. Similarly, the need to develop digitally literate citizens and effectively prepare teachers for this task calls to mind the ISTE Standards for Educators. However, state-level demands, like those in Idaho, introduce additional considerations. The purpose of this working paper is to highlight the similarities and differences among these groups of standards and introduce a crosswalk framework that maps …