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Maximizing Teacher Professional Development Amid Budget Uncertainty
Effective teachers are critical to student learning. Even when financial constraints arise, school leaders have multiple options for continuing to invest in your teachers’ professional development.
Raising Students’ Voices in STEM Classes, For Real
STEM4Real founder Dr. Leena Bakshi interviews TeachFXer & former teacher Resego Mooki, exploring strategies for fostering learning environments where all students are celebrated, heard, and seen. And how combining STEM4Real with TeachFX is helping STEM teachers foster meaningful and equitable dialogue.
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.
Building Thinking Classrooms, Building Conversational Classrooms
Adopting the building thinking classrooms approach? Developing students' thinking skills in conversation-centered classrooms is powerful. First, it’s vital to know who’s doing the talking, how teacher questioning techniques can help.
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.
Building Teacher Pipelines & Reinventing the Role of Teachers
Watch this conversation at ASU+GSV 2023 featuring TeachFX CEO Jamie Poskin, Presence CEO Kate Eberle Walker, Teach for America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard, Study.com SVP of Social Impact Dana Bryson, and National University Professor of Education & Director of Social and Emotional Learning Cynthia Sistek-Chandler.
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.
Inspiration for Teacher Appreciation Week (and did someone say food truck lunch party?)
Teacher Appreciation Week runs May 8th through May 12th. Let’s show our appreciation for the hardworking individuals who dedicate their lives to fostering the love of learning for our kids. Check out some ways which you can celebrate your teachers - and, enter to win a food-truck lunch party, courtesy of TeachFX.
Supporting Teaching Practice With AI-Powered Instructional Feedback
Teacher recruitment and retention are at crisis levels. The challenges we face weren’t created by the pandemic – they were compounding for decades. The solutions will require us to explore and embrace new ways of thinking, new ways of teaching, and new ways of supporting our teachers.