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 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.

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.

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. 

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.

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!

✴️ Grant applications due 3/31 ✴️ The Utah STEM Action Center's grant program supports thousands of Utah's teachers with valuable curricula and teaching practices. Their grants provide schools and districts with funding support for instructional coaching, mentoring, self-reflection, and effective professional learning communities (PLCs).

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.

Ashley Yazarlou is a Reflective Coach at the Center for Teacher Innovation (CTI) and an EdTech teacher on special assignment in Hemet Unified School District.

Over the course of the 2020-21 school year, Ashley coached 8 teachers, three of whom volunteered to try out TeachFX as part of their CTI inquiry cycle in January and February of 2022. And a 4th teacher was inspired by the other 3 to try it out, and she finished up her March/April inquiry cycle using TeachFX.

Ashley’s experience provided her a framework on how to help teachers create meaningful conversation in the classroom, specifically around what strategies worked to get students talking, what obstacles challenged those endeavors, and how to foster teacher-leader relationships in order to support their professional growth.

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.