Frequently Asked Questions

TeachFX combines evidence-based virtual professional learning, job-embedded teacher feedback technology, and unprecedented school-wide data on instructional trends to help your teachers get students engaged in their virtual and in-person classes. We invest heavily in our partnerships to meet the particular instructional goals and budget context of your school or district.

The TeachFX app provides teachers with instructional feedback privately and automatically. Teachers can see which portions of class are teacher talk, student talk, group talk, silence and media, as well as use of academic vocabulary. Teachers use TeachFX feedback to work on increasing use of specific high-leverage instructional practices, like using questioning techniques, using specific praise, pressing students to explain their thinking, or using wait time.

On average, using the TeachFX app has led to an 88% increase in student participation.

TeachFX was created by Jamie Poskin, a former English and math teacher passionate about equity and student engagement.

Teachers simply use the TeachFX app on their phone or laptop to record a class. TeachFX uses proprietary AI to track the teacher talk vs. student talk automatically, with no extra work from the teacher or an instructional coach. (When you create a TeachFX account, you record a voice sample so TeachFX can “learn” your voice). After the lesson, teachers automatically receive a class report that analyzes the breakdown of teacher and student talk in the classroom, use of academic vocabulary, and use of high-leverage instructional practices.

TeachFX works on any device with a microphone: an Apple or Android phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.

You can download the TeachFX app on the Apple App Store or Google Play, or use it from your web browser.

TeachFX offers school or district licenses priced to meet your particular context. To get a quote for your school or district, connect with our team to get the conversation started.

Whether you’d like to pilot TeachFX with a group of teachers in your school or district, or provide TeachFX to every teacher in your organization, we can design a partnership that fits your professional development needs and instructional goals.

Finding funding to support your teachers with excellent professional development is always possible. Here are the most common sources of funding that instructional leaders use for TeachFX.

Yes! TeachFX can design a partnership to include every teacher in your school or district, or start with a pilot program to support a subset of your teachers.

TeachFX is currently partnered with schools and districts throughout the U.S. It’s very likely that other schools in your district are already using TeachFX!

You can see stories from our partners here on our blog, in our collection of TeachFX impact & efficacy research, as well as over on our YouTube channel.

Or, contact us to learn about TeachFX partners in your district.

Research shows that the more students talk in class, the more they learn… and the better they perform on standardized tests. (Lotan, 2012; Holthuis, 2012; Michaels, 2008; Bianchini, 1997; Cohen, 1997; Leechor, 1989; Vygotsky, 1978)

Student engagement is one of the most powerful drivers of academic performance, and yet teachers, schools, and districts currently have no real evidence of how they’re doing. Are students participating at high rates in your classrooms? How do you know?

Over the last two years, schools and districts where teachers used TeachFX increased their student participation by an average 12.6 minutes per class.

You can listen to a few excerpts from our interviews with teachers if you’re curious. Overall, we truly believe TeachFX is the most effective way to improve outcomes for your students.

TeachFX believes that teachers should be able to use our platform to improve their practice without fear of being judged or evaluated.

Therefore: as the teacher, you have complete ownership over your recordings on TeachFX. Your administrators or colleagues cannot access your recordings without your permission.

TeachFX will never be used to evaluate a teacher. Remember: no one can see your class reports but you.

Using data to penalize teachers in evaluations or as a “gotcha” is completely antithetical to the mission of our company, which is to help teachers lead their own professional learning and develop a more self-reflective practice.

Yes! TeachFX is fully FERPA and COPPA compliant. The law protects teachers to make recordings of their classes for professional development purposes without requiring any permissions, and making class recordings is, as you probably have seen, a very common professional learning practice throughout K-12 education in the US.

TeachFX data is securely stored, and recordings can only be accessed by the teacher who chooses to record a class. To learn more, you can read our Privacy Policy and visit our Security Portal.

While you are not required to ask permission from students, we certainly encourage you to tell them you’re using TeachFX! Countless teachers have told us about the positive impact this has had on their classroom culture.

Here’s an example of what you might say:

“Hey class, it’s really important to me that I’m hearing your voices in this classroom, that you are the ones doing most of the thinking and the talking, not me.

So today I’m going to start using this app that helps me make sure I don’t talk too much and that I leave room for your voices. Can I get a volunteer to help remind me to turn it on every day?”

Many TeachFX users also use the previous lesson’s TeachFX report as an entrance ticket for their students.

We’re here to help! You can chat with a real TeachFX team member here on the website or over in the app. Or contact us at support@teachfx.com.