In our earliest implementations, when Teachstone was just being formed, we often heard that teachers were caught off guard by CLASS-based ...
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Ok my Affiliate Trainer friends, remember when I closed out the trainer panel on the final day of training and sent you off into the wild to begin ...
As Teachstone’s Production Specialist, I watch a lot of classroom videos to select coding segments for Teachstone’s reliability testing, ...
For me, this is a dream assignment: review the proposed new Head Start Performance Standards! I love diving into regulations and analyzing how they ...
Last week, we introduced you to Teachstone trainers Curry Ander, Lisa Criss, Mary-Margaret Gardiner, and Sarah Hadden. This week, we’d like to ...
My friend Laura and I started teaching at the same time. She chose to work with a very difficult group of kids. Our department chair described the ...
Teachers, what is your reaction when someone talks to you about using CLASS? Do you cringe, thinking of a numerical score? Do you feel overhwlemed, ...
In preschool programs, meals can take place in the classroom or in the cafeteria. The CLASS Manual tells us that meal times are perfectly acceptable ...
Beyond training reliable CLASS observers, our Teachstone trainers play a vital role in delivering on the promise of CLASS. Across the country and ...
Personal biases can challenge observers assessing the quality of teacher-child interactions with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS). In ...