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Preparing Students for the Future: Dr. Petri on Project-Based Learning and AI in Education
This episode of 'Tech Lasso' features Dr. Scott Petri, a distinguished social studies teacher and educational leader.
Hear how Scott uses a variety of edtech tools, such as TeachFX, to engage students and get them talking in class.
Empowering Teachers and Their Students with TeachFX
In this episode of the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast, Dr. Kristen Horton, principal of Continental Colony Elementary School, and Joseph Hyun, Head of Partner Success at TeachFX, discuss the implementation of TeachFX at Continental Colony Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia.
Learn how TeachFX has helped Dr. Horton's instructional leadership team provide valuable support to teachers in their professional practice.
This optional program is helping Brighton teachers gauge learning and understanding by evaluating student responses
In this article from The City Journals, Instructional Coach Jackie Ricks shares how TeachFX helps teachers at Brighton High School use AI-powered insights to get students talking more in class.
5 tech, AI Tools to Enhance Teacher Team Success
This article from eSchool News shares how AI tools serve as a bridge between teachers and their professional goals. It shines a spotlight on how TeachFX offers AI-powered insights to help teachers see how students are engaging using dialogue in their class.
5 questions to ask when evaluating AI edtech tools
This SmartBrief article discusses what teachers should consider when evaluating different AI edtech tools. It also highlights TeachFX as a valuable tool, offering teachers feedback that helps them improve their instruction.
Improving Your Teaching With an AI Coach
Instructional coach, Ashley Yazarlou, shares her journey from teacher to coach and how she brings a culture of reflecting on feedback into her work. See how Ashley uses TeachFX, to empower teachers in her district to enhance their teaching practices.
Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It
At TeachFX, we're at the forefront of revolutionizing teacher professional development through our innovative AI tool. As featured in an EdSurge article, we stand out as pioneers, offering personalized feedback based on classroom audio recordings, shifting the focus from student outcomes to instructional practices. Our founder, Jamie Poskin, firmly believes that AI has the potential to help teachers improve their teaching and create conversational classrooms.
AI Can Make Education More Personal (Yes, Really)
Teaching is taking on a new dimension with the help of AI. Imagine every teacher having timely and supportive insights right at their fingertips.
TeachFX is on a mission to make that happen. We're empowering teachers with an AI-powered instructional coaching app that supports teachers along their journey to becoming the educators they want to be. And increasingly, the research is proving the impact this app can help teachers have in classrooms.
We partnered with researchers in a study that included 100 Utah math teachers, showing how feedback provided by our technology can aid teachers in reflecting on and refining their practice. Learn more about this and other breakthroughs in this article from Education Week.
Raising Students’ Voices in STEM Classes, For Real
Dr. Leena Bakshi, a pioneering STEM education disruptor, and Resego Mooki, a passionate former middle school science teacher and Partnership Associate at TeachFX unveil a transformative journey aimed at elevating student voices and promoting social justice in K-12 classrooms.
In this podcast episode, Leena and Resego delve into the critical intersection of equity, social justice, and critical consciousness in education. Drawing from their remarkable experiences in education they explore strategies to create a learning environment where students of all backgrounds are celebrated, heard, and seen. They also discuss how TeachFX and STEM4Real harness the power of technology to foster meaningful and equitable dialogue, empowering teachers to facilitate student engagement, enable deeper learning, and instill a genuine love for education.
This Artificial Intelligence App Wants To Make You A Better Teacher
Jamie Poskin is the founder and CEO of TeachFX, an artificial intelligence-powered app that records teachers’ lessons and gives them personalized feedback about what they do well and where they could improve. How much time did they spend talking compared with their students? Did they ask too few open-ended questions? Did they use too many academic or technical words? Did they pause for an adequate amount of time after posing a question? TeachFX will tell them.
“It’s super easy for a K-12 teacher in an in-person classroom—you’re pressing a button. You can even schedule it to start when you want it to start, and then you get feedback right there on your phone.”
TeachFX Expands the Learning Dynamics Ecosystem
TeachFX now empowers online learning providers and educators with actionable data to know – at any scale – the practices facilitating deeper learning, direct connections between instructional patterns and learning outcomes, and work effectively to increase equity in online learning.
Renowned U.S.-based online math tutoring provider Cignition, the market-leading U.K.-based online math tutoring provider Third Space Learning, and Sora Schools, the virtual middle & high school accelerating students toward their wildest dreams, are already partnering with TeachFX to transform the teaching and learning experiences they deliver.
BetterLesson Partners with TeachFX to Drive Student-Centered Instructional Practices Through Actionable Data
The partnership pairs BetterLesson's dynamic professional learning supports with TeachFX's targeted analysis of student and teacher voice patterns to measure the impact of teaching practices
BetterLesson, a leading provider of high-quality virtual and in-person K–12 professional learning, announces a partnership with TeachFX, an app that measures student engagement using voice AI to show teachers personalized insights about how their instructional practices can help increase student talk in the classroom.
The partnership will provide educators with a way to measure student impact when practicing new teaching strategies in the classroom that is safe, secure and aligned to FERPA's privacy standards.
BetterLesson's one-on-one, virtual coaching addresses educators' individual needs when pursuing professional growth in the classroom. With TeachFX, educators using BetterLesson's professional learning supports now have a secure and user-friendly way to immediately measure incremental shifts in their teaching practices on student engagement and classroom equity.
The partnership between BetterLesson and TeachFX deepens BetterLesson's hallmark "try-measure-learn" framework, giving teachers real-time, actionable insights to refine their approach for improved student outcomes.
Yes, AI could profoundly disrupt education. But maybe that’s not a bad thing
AI has the potential to profoundly impact education in innovative ways. See how TeachFX and other AI tools are helping educators reimagine education and reducing teachers' loads, allowing them to prioritize lessons that foster creativity and critical thinking.
What we’ve lost and what we’ve learned
Literacy education professor Rachael Gabriel wrote that we are imposing a “previously imagined trajectory leading to a previously imagined future” in our myopic rush to assess only the academic welfare of our students. And she challenges us to think differently about the issue: “What if we imagined the ‘corona kids’ had learned more than their previous cohorts?”
The pandemic has been a traumatic, discombobulating experience in different ways for all of us. But an erratic return to the way we have always done things in our schools without embracing the lessons learned by our students, our parents and our teachers about how school systems can work in new and possibly more meaningful ways — all so that we can collect inconclusive data points — is evidence that the losses in learning we should be most concerned about are our own.
The Critical Element of Self-Efficacy
When schools support educators in developing a sense of efficacy, there’s often a chain reaction.
“In my district, we've implemented TeachFX, an audio-analysis app, to get more objective data for professional development discussions. Teachers use the app to record themselves and get a detailed data report and transcription of their teacher-to-student talk ratios. Our coaching team looks at these trends both individually and collectively and documents areas where we need to improve. For example, "Our high school is doing great providing opportunities for individual students to respond, but we can improve on student-to-student collaboration."
FOCUS: Student talk in science class leads the way to equity in Detroit
Detroit science teachers are pilotingTeachFX, an app for teachers that automatically measures their teacher talk time compared to student talk time, questioning techniques, use of think time, equity of voice, lesson design, and more.
Over 300 teachers have used the TeachFX app or attended our professional learning workshops to examine their practice through the lens of student talk and equity of voice.
Among the piloting TeachFX teachers, we saw a 45% increase in student talk in classrooms where over 90% of students are Black or Brown.
‘Fitbit’ for Monitoring Student Voice
Our district’s teachers use a “Fitbit”-style feedback system, called TeachFX, that uses voice-activated artificial intelligence to measure student engagement directly, by analyzing discourse patterns in the classroom. The data are organized into personalized feedback on the teacher’s instructional practice that she or he can access on demand.
AI is moving into classrooms to monitor students
"When I make connections with the students, then they are more comfortable in discussing things. They are more open, says middle school teacher William Barton.
TeachFX is an app for teachers that actually measures student engagement. This is done by providing data on how often a student interacts and what questions prompted that interaction.
Barton says, "That gives me a snapshot of the class. How much did I talk? How much did they talk?"
PD is Every Day
Diane Willis has worked diligently in education for 32 years, making a difference in the learning lives of students and teachers. She is a veteran leader, serving 24 years in leadership roles in seven different elementary schools.
Diane believes an instructional leader must be present during learning moments to help discover the next best answers. She believes that professional development is within things done, said, discovered, or planned each day.
Show Highlights:
Tips to free yourself up to be available to be where it matters.
TeachFX isn’t “one more thing” it is a way to multiply yourself.
Transfer ownership to your students to liberate learning.
Offer high quality, personalized professional development on a daily basis.
PD is every day with these little gems that you elect along the way.
How to be present as a leader with the “next best answers” of the day.
Tips and tricks to not miss moments to support your staff and share goals.
Schedule the day out and share your improvement plan for optimal team effort.
Sights on EdTech - Interview with Jamie Poskin from TeachFX
As students get older, teachers talk more and more…Providing teachers with measurements on their talk time nudges them to make adjustments, leading to an almost two-fold increase of student talk after using TeachFX only 10 times.
Providing teachers with measurable insights on their teaching style, including teachers’ talk ratio, individual students’ talk ratio, quantity and type of questions asked (closed vs. open-ended), the pedagogical concept of uptake, wait time and others, can greatly increase teachers’ awareness and use of such techniques in classrooms, therefore strongly benefitting learning.
(TeachFX is) giving teachers ownership of their data, reassuring them that it will not be shared with administration and third parties. TeachFX’s measurements are meant to aid teachers as a tool built for them, and NOT to monitor them.
AUHSD Future Talks: Episode 39 (David Brazer)
In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Dr. David Brazer. Dr. Brazer is Associate Professor (Teaching) and Director of Leadership Degree Programs in the Stanford University Graduate School of Education and Director of Professional Learning at TeachFX. His primary research interests include decision making in schools and districts, school improvement, and leadership preparation. He is currently exploring teacher decision making in the context of collaborative teams. He teaches leadership seminars and courses in the Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies and Joint MA/MBA programs.
Why Those Under 30 Are Still Disrupting Everything
Today, it is widely accepted that students learn best when they are active participants in the learning process alongside their peers. Classroom discussions are an innovative and necessary teaching method because it promotes verbal articulation, teamwork amongst peers, and retention of ideas. But it is often difficult for teachers to generate discussion amidst a diverse set of learners and ensure the discussion contributes to student outcomes. That is why Berk Coker founded TeachFX, which empowers teachers by giving them tools and data to strengthen their classroom discussions. The app uses voice to gather information about “student engagement, the equity of voice, and the discourse patterns in a teacher’s virtual or in-person classroom. Like an instructional coach, the app provides teachers with targeted pedagogical feedback on their teaching practice.”
AI and TeachFX: Voice Recognition in teaching, with Zach Crago | Teens In AI Podcast
Strengthening the student-teacher relationship with the power of AI.
R.E.A.L. Discussion Office Hours: Jamie Poskin
One thing that surprised me about teaching was that my classes were rarely observed. Later, that lack of feedback came up a lot in my interviews with teachers who had left the profession. We need a sense of mastery and growth to feel fulfilled. As a K-12 teacher, you don’t always get a lot of feedback. How do we provide feedback to teachers that can make them feel they’re growing and building mastery?
A Post-Covid Case for Classroom Cameras
Artificial intelligence can even provide teachers with evidence of their lessons’ impact in real time, for example by showing which of their questions generated the most student discussion, as the start-up TeachFX is demonstrating. And audio recordings can fuel a new generation of high-quality research on instructional practice by tapping into machine learning.
Using Values to Make Change in Education
This wide-ranging discussion with David Brazer (Ph.D. Stanford University), Director of Professional Learning at TeachFX, covers:
Eliminate the honors track to push equity, excellence and provide more school wide resources
Avoid programs that pretend to be college prep and create enriching learning experiences
Provide meaningful courses intended to be workplace preparatory
Put your career on the line for vital programs for your students
Teach Fx helps avoid limited snapshot knowledge of teaching and learning in your building
Teach FX provides actionable feedback that is specific enough to make immediate improvements towards instructional goals.
Teaching and learning as both effective and cognitive
How Voice AI Can Help Create More Equitable Classrooms
One of the most elemental units of instructional equity is the composition of classroom discourse — specifically, how much “air time” students receive in classroom dialogue. We know that learning happens most rapidly when a student is given the opportunity to process their thinking verbally — but just how often do teachers engage different subgroups of students (Black, Latino, English Learners) in comparison to others? And is there a difference in the types of questions and participation across subgroups?
Jamie Poskin, founder of TeachFX, on teacher feedback, machine learning, experimental theater and more
Jamie Poskin, founder and executive director of TeachFX, discusses TeachFX’s mission is to promote more meaningful and equitable classroom dialogue by superpowering teachers’ work — using technology to provide educators with regular, automated feedback on their practice.
How Much Should Teachers Talk in the Classroom? Much Less, Some Say
Are lessons dominated by teachers talking? Do students have a robust role in discussing what they’re learning? Or are they mostly answering procedural or factual questions? Are teachers consciously monitoring how much they talk? Should they be?
Research and front-line teacher experience suggest they should be. And some teachers are using new tools like apps on their phones to help them reflect on their classroom talk habits.
Equitable Classrooms Launches New AI Tech to Help Redefine the Conversation About Equity in K-12 Education
“Achieving greater equity has long been an aspiration of our district, but creating equitable learning environments for English learners, special ed students, and other subgroups remains a challenge, especially during COVID. Equitable Classrooms finally gets us to the root causes of these equity challenges: who is actually talking and engaging in class? We are incredibly excited about the visibility this product will give us into equity of voice in our district. It’s absolutely game-changing!”
Using machine learning to superpower teachers
TeachFX uses machine learning to superpower teachers’ work by providing them with automated feedback on the discussions that are happening in their classrooms. TeachFX was founded by Jamie Poskin, a former English and math teacher, tech entrepreneur, experimental theater director, and a recent graduate of Stanford’s MBA and MA in Education programs. Jamie Poskin.
Six Simple Ways to Get Your Students Talking
Measure it! There’s an old saying: “What gets measured, gets done.” With that in mind, I started using an app last year that automatically tracks the ratio of teacher talk to student talk. Having that data on a daily basis was a revelation — it forced me to be more reflective on my teaching, and to be more proactive about getting student voices at the center of my classroom.
The app uses a machine learning algorithm to distinguish your voice from your students. It’s called TeachFX, and it was created by a former teacher. It’s super easy to use, basically like an alarm clock that you set for the classes you want to analyze. I’ve gotten in the habit of checking my talk percentages every day.
Interested in partnering with TeachFX?
Let’s find a time to chat about your big instructional goals and demo our professional learning technology.
We can help you see if TeachFX is a good fit for your school district.