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How Lincoln Academy is Getting Students Talking Using TeachFX
Meet Lincoln Academy Charter School! This K-12 school in Pleasant Grove, Utah, is using TeachFX to improve instruction and increase student dialogue. Read about the staff at Lincoln and see how TeachFX helps them improve their teaching practice.
Empowering Growth: How TeachFX Impacts Teaching Practice
Teachers share how utilizing TeachFX is helping them change their teaching practice in four key ways.
Achievable Dream Academy: Empowering Students Through Conversational Classrooms
With TeachFX, An Achievable Dream Academy’s teachers have increased student talk well above national averages and taken significant strides toward achieving their mission of guiding every student towards success in work and life.
Jordan School District: Feedback + Coaching + PD =Joy
With TeachFX, Jordan School District Mathematics Administrator Amy Kinder and her team are transforming teaching and learning across 62 schools.
Howard High School of Technology: Building Student Talk in Post-Pandemic Classrooms
Hear Howard’s teachers and instructional leaders discuss the role that TeachFX plays in helping to foster the engaging learning experience each educator is committed to.
Cignition and TeachFX: Elevating Students’ Online Tutoring Experience
Cignition piloted TeachFX in their tutoring program with a diverse group of students in a suburban/rural school district in the southeastern United States.
Through the TeachFX app, tutors gained a new lens into their sessions. They got an overview of student-tutor talk ratios, insights into their use of specific high-leverage teaching practices, and even word clouds depicting the academic vocabulary tutors and students used most frequently.
Atlanta’s Continental Colony Elementary School: More Conversational & Equitable Classrooms
Dr. Kristen Horton and her leadership team are committed to a vision for more conversational and equitable classrooms. They know the two are inextricably linked with each other and with their ultimate mission of providing a high-quality education for every child. She immediately saw TeachFX as a simple way to help teachers reflect on their own by providing meaningful feedback. And, that with TeachFX, feedback is provided in a way that doesn’t feel quite so high-stakes as classroom observations can.
St. Cecilia in Dallas: Launching New Data-Informed PD With EANS + ClassWallet
Instructional Coach, Dra. Diana Torres Rivera first used TeachFX in her own classroom at St. Cecilia’s. Over the course of a semester, she recorded a number of her own lessons, in both her English and Spanish classes.
This eventually lead to St. Cecilia using funds through the Emergency Assistance for Non-Public Schools (EANS) to launch a partnership with TeachFX
And now that TeachFX is an approved vendor on ClassWallet, your private school might be able to do the same!
Hemet USD: Towards Teacher-Led Cycles of Inquiry
Educators spend more than 40 hours per year analyzing assessment data. Even though there’s no evidence that doing so changes learning outcomes.
What does change learning outcomes, and learning equity, according to decades of research, is student talk. More specifically, teaching practices that facilitate student engagement in meaningful, equitable, academic conversations.
How can we help teachers foster these kinds of meaningful classroom conversations?
Detroit Public Schools: Equity, Student Talk, & Science Classes
To change who does the learning, we have to increase student talk and change who does the talking in our classrooms…and that requires a change in how we teach.
When the Detroit Public Schools Community Districtʼs Office of Science – and hundreds of science teachers – set out to create change for their students, they set their focus on racial disparities endemic to science classrooms and across the curricular spectrum.
That led to a focus on student talk in science classrooms – and partnering with TeachFX.