Sometimes your CLASS Observation trainees may feel shy or unconfident about sharing their thoughts during training. This is especially true for many ...
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At some of our recent Lunch and Learns, Affiliate Trainers indicated that they would be interested in learning more about their fellow ATs and the ...
About four months ago, my husband and I welcomed our second child, Maddy, into the world. Unlike 20 months earlier, when Oliver was born, we weren’t ...
As I began to delve into the results of our first-ever State of CLASS survey data, I thought, “Am I about to be out of a job?” Immediately I noticed ...
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone asked me to explain what my company does. I get so excited and I start off with something like this: ...
I confess. I let my daughter watch TV. This is my 2-year old glued to (part of) an episode of Mr. Rogers (or as she calls him, Ra-Ra).
Recently, I conducted a TTT program and one of my participants, a veteran Affiliate Trainer on another age level, asked me where her participants ...
When I was a teacher, improving classroom interactions meant changing my behavior. While this wasn’t always easy, I always felt like I had direct ...
Every time I train, I always try to find ways to make the materials relatable to the participants’ lives, either by telling stories or by giving ...
Most people think about CLASS as a classroom observation measure—and it is—but maybe we’ve been looking at the tool in the wrong way. Let's take a ...