Teachstone

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Strategies for Interacting with Children who Have Experienced Trauma https://bit.ly/45lIwEH

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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

"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