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.

See how teachers are using Lesson Snapshot images from TeachFX reports to engage students, which can help build strong academic vocabularies and reinforce learning. These techniques can also help promote the creation of a culture of reflection and learning for both teachers and students.

Teachers share how utilizing TeachFX is helping them change their teaching practice in four key ways.

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.

According to research, a teacher typically waits less than one second for a student response after asking a question. Similarly, after a student responds, teachers respond with another question in less than one second. Providing students with at least 5 seconds of Think Time has tremendous benefits:

• Increased length of student responses.

• Increased the number of unsolicited student responses.

• Increased speculative responses.

• Decreased number of students failing to respond.

• Increased number of responses from student with learning exceptionalities.

The Featured Moments insight allows you to do just that. Featured Moments analyzes multiple data points in your lesson and creates one quick and easy-to-read insight of the most engaging moments in your class.

Now you can analyze the most engaging portions of your lesson and use them to create more moments.

Amazingly, our data shows that, on average, students speak for just 7 seconds per hour of instruction time. Why is this, despite decades of research showing that students need to speak to learn?

The answer is complex. In this interview, Jamie discusses why student talk matters for learning outcomes and equitability. And he shares how TeachFX was created to empower teachers to focus on both student talk — and the specific teaching practices — that can dramatically change both teaching and learning.