CLASS is a research based tool that measures teacher-child interactions in Pre-K-12 classrooms and in settings that serve infants and toddlers. I'm ...
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In this day and age, the likelihood of finding an opinion or theory that everyone agrees on seems impossible. The world of early education is no ...
Image by Dani Antol Co-owner, Rock Paper Scissors This weekend the city that Teachstone calls home was taken over by hatred. Some of us witnessed the ...
Teacher professional development (PD) is often defined as, “structured professional learning that results in changes to teacher knowledge and ...
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is having its moment in education. SEL and CLASS program developers and practitioners would be well-served to ...
In preparing summer professional development for teachers, my district knew we wanted CLASS to play a larger role in our trainings. But how were we ...
Research has long examined the different ways in which students gain from early childhood education, but two new studies from Tulsa have shown some ...
Incremental growth matters! As anyone who has been to a CLASS training can attest, we are all about incremental growth, resisting the urge to promise ...
Research shows many early childhood educators feel ill-equipped to meet the needs of children who display problem behaviors (Fox & Smith, 2007; ...
What is quality in early education classrooms, and how can we make sure that more children—especially those from low-income families—experience it? ...