Is your school actually a place that your teachers (and students) want to show up to every day? In this episode of Teaching with CLASS®, we talk about why a focus on developing Positive Climate is important for everyone in the room! Positive Climate for Everyone: How a Focus on Positive Climate is Good for Educators and Students https://bit.ly/4czQ2yy
Teachstone
Education Administration Programs
Charlottesville, VA 32,901 followers
Every student deserves life-changing teachers
About us
Teachstone® was founded in 2008 to deliver the Classroom Assessment Scoring System® (CLASS®) nationwide and around the globe. Developed through years of research, the CLASS observation tool measures the interactions between teachers and children, which have been shown to drive learning and lifelong achievement. Teachstone helps organizations conduct classroom observations and provide professional development so that teachers improve and children learn more. Our online subscription service, myTeachstone, simplifies CLASS implementation by combining observation data with a robust library of CLASS resources and professional development. We also offer research-based, intensive coaching programs.
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http://teachstone.com
External link for Teachstone
- Industry
- Education Administration Programs
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Charlottesville, VA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2008
- Specialties
- education, early learning, training and technical assitance, professional development, professional learning platforms, staff development, and education technology
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Primary
675 Peter Jefferson Parkway
Suite 350
Charlottesville, VA 22911, US
Employees at Teachstone
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Max Schubert
Senior Director of Engineering
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Molly Pickral
15+ years of leading teams and delivering software that makes a difference in the world.
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David Hill
Content and Learning Leader | Generative AI Strategist for Content Workflows | Ex-Singularity, Udacity, Wiley
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Suzann Morris
Vice President
Updates
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Did you know that you can have your own CLASS® Trainers on staff? In this webinar, we review the options for CLASS observers who want to become CLASS Trainers...whether they want to train cohorts of new observers or simply deepen their CLASS knowledge and expertise. Watch now! Webinar: Train-the-Trainer Program https://bit.ly/3XXuY0m
Webinar: Train-the-Trainer Program
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Teachstone is excited to introduce the CLASS 2nd Edition Measurement Suite—a portfolio of products designed to help organizations focus and measure the proven power of educator-child interactions. This suite ensures reliable observation of educator-child interactions, supplying the data for meaningful quality improvement efforts. Let’s take a look at what it has to offer! Discover the 6 New Products in the CLASS® 2nd Edition Measurement Suite https://bit.ly/3W0A6hA
Discover the 6 New Products in the CLASS® 2nd Edition Measurement Suite
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How do you celebrate? One of our big takeways from this season of Impacting the Classroom has been how important it is to celebrate our wins...and especially the wins of our educators after CLASS® observations and data collection. So we want to hear from you: how do you celebrate? Let us know in the comments!
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Don't forget to register for our Intentional Professional Development with Custom Events webinar on July 9th! Teachstone's Kim Pold and Benjamin Smith will cover everything you need to know about bringing impactful in-service days throughout the 2024-2025 school year. They will share a glimpse into the virtual event platform, share the menu of interactive sessions, and talk you through how to build your custom plan for staff. Webinar: Intentional Professional Development with Custom Events https://bit.ly/45SE1lc
Webinar: Intentional Professional Development with Custom Events
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Five takeaways from speaking with Kris Meyers of Virginia Department of Education 1. Frequent opportunities for feedback leads to improvement 2. Classroom observations should happen in EVERY classroom in a system implementing CLASS® 3. Better interactions lead to better learning and should be considered in a quality ratings system 4. Early childcare professionals should not be treated like babysitters because they have an important role in child development and deserve training that recognizes that 5. Family understanding is helpful when building a new system to measure quality Want to hear more? Check out the full episode here ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/ez3_sdKA
CLASS® Implementation in Virginia
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Strategies for Interacting with Children who Have Experienced Trauma https://bit.ly/45lIwEH
Strategies for Interacting with Children who Have Experienced Trauma
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This morning I got to spend some time with CLASS observers, trainers, and coaches in the state of FL as part of Teachstone’s FL Listening Tour. It was great hearing the stories from the field and how CLASS has impacted their work with educators. As FL prepares to make the transition to 2nd edition, they were excited to learn of the new supports in place to make the use of the tool more impactful. Thank you to the Early Learning Coalition of Broward County for hosting this session. We look forward to many more to come! #CLASS #interactions #ECE
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Do you know the 8 steps to a successful CLASS® implementation? Check out the webinar and free resources here ⤵️ Watch the Recording | 8 Action Steps For A Successful CLASS® Implementation https://bit.ly/4ayTZlj
Watch the Recording | 8 Action Steps For A Successful CLASS® Implementation
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"I really think the proof for a lot of that is in the tool itself. We haven't had experience with a shared observational tool in Teach For America for over a decade. When people come into the CLASS training and they start getting deep into the dimensions, the domains, and the indicators, and they start understanding what class is looking at and how they're defining interactions and how they're defining the depth and complexity of interactions, they inherently see the connection to what they think of as high-quality classrooms. I think in a lot of ways, the tool speaks for itself. The measure speaks for itself. I think as people were going through their three-day training, they were really experiencing, at least in that level, the alignment that they felt around their own beliefs about strong teaching and what great classrooms look like with the measure. As they went out and started to observe their core members and their teachers, their investment grew not only because they could see the measure in practice with the people that they're coaching, but because I think they started to realize how being a trained CLASS observer, a certified CLASS observer, changes the way they see classrooms. We've heard anecdotally from multiple coaches across our regional teams that this made them a more rigorous classroom observer, that they were able to have a more balanced view of what was happening in the classroom, that they were able to see things that were things that they didn't normally focus on in their pre-CLASS lives. I think the more they're using it, the more that they are getting fluent in the measure, fluent in the interaction, fluent in all of the pieces of it. That investment naturally grows because they are seeing how it's making them better coaches, which is then in turn helping them drive the improvement that they're seeing with their teachers." Robin Greatrex Thank you to Robin and Grant Van Eaton for joining Marnetta Larrimer on Impacting the Classroom to talk about their experiencing of implementing CLASS in Teach For America. Here more at the link below! https://lnkd.in/dDBbEwby
Teach For America Returns
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