Reliability testing is stressful? Right? Right! Especially when you are an Affiliate Trainer, and you must pass the test to maintain trainer status! ...
Posts by Sarah Hadden
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Sarah Hadden, Senior Advisor, Training and Professional Development | Sarah is an educator with 30 years of experience in the field. She has been a classroom teacher, a researcher, and a teacher educator. Prior to joining Teachstone, Sarah worked on the development and implementation of the first CLASS-based professional development programs (MyTeaching Partner and the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education) at the Center for Advanced Studies on Teaching and Learning at the University of Virginia. Sarah conducts Pre-K & K-3 Intro and Observation trainings, Pre-K & K-3 Train the Trainer Programs, and Feedback Strategies and Instructional Support Strategy trainings. Sarah lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has conducted CLASS trainings in 28 states (including Alaska and Hawaii) and 4 continents! When she isn’t working, she often has her nose in a book.
At some point in every training, someone invariably looks up and says, “So, if I want to be reliable, all I need to do is never score a 1 or a 7, ...
Note: It’s the start of another new school year and once again, my thoughts turn to all of the children who are starting school for the first time. ...
Mary Margaret-Gardiner and Sarah Hadden discuss the Toddler CLASS dimension Regard for Child Perspectives. You'll learn why there isn't a student ...
We are always interested to learn about novel uses of the CLASS. When we learned of the work of Alfred Richartz (left), Professor of Movement and ...
If you’ve ever attended a CLASS Observation Training, you’ve heard the trainer state that the CLASS is a valid tool for measuring the efficacy to ...
I am delighted to introduce Bridget Rey, our Affiliate Trainer for November. As the CLASS Coordinator for Agenda for Children in New Orleans, Bridget ...
This morning, we received an email from an observer who had a great question about whether or not it’s OK to code interactions on the playground. ...
The Research Origins of CLASS Research leading to the current version of the CLASS tool began in 1991 as a part of the NICHD Study of Early Child ...
I recently heard from a trainee who had attended two different Observation Trainings and heard conflicting information related to scoring the ...