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 ...
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It's true, school cafeterias have a bad rap. Experiences in cafeterias have contributed to some low CLASS scores. For example, one observer was ...
Brace yourself. I’m about to bring up a topic that strikes fear in the hearts of thousands of early childhood professionals—the CLASS reliability ...
The Head Start Designation Renewal System (DRS) is the party that I got an invitation to that I really didn’t want to attend. But, ultimately, we ...
As CLASS trainers, we want our participants to successfully certify. However, we also know that no matter how good our training skills, there’s a ...
Kristy works as a pre-K teacher in Georgia and was willing to sit down with me and talk about what inspires her to teach and more. Her nominator ...
"I’ve completed my training. I’m done... right?"
A recent report from the Center for American Progress (CAP), Examining Teacher Effectiveness Between Preschool and Third Grade, examined inequities ...
Let’s skip past all the reasons reliability on the CLASS measure is super important. Your CLASS trainees already know that improving teaching starts ...
I recently blogged about why recertification is important (bottom line: it’s your yearly chance to test yourself against master-coded videos). But ...