CLASS scores don’t just assess teaching- they shape student outcomes. Learn how structured, video-based coaching with TORSH helps early childhood programs boost CLASS scores and educator effectiveness.

CLASS scores matter—big time. In early education, they’re more than just numbers on a rubric. They’re tied to student outcomes, program quality, and educator effectiveness. But improving those scores? That’s the hard part.

Why CLASS Scores Matter

The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) is used across 42 states to evaluate teacher-child interactions in early education. It focuses on three essential domains:

And the impact is real. Research shows that:

• Classrooms with higher CLASS scores see 20% higher student engagement
• A 0.5-point increase in Instructional Support can lead to measurable literacy and math gains
• Structured feedback tied to CLASS dimensions improves teacher performance by 10–15%

Coaching Challenges Holding Programs Back

So why isn’t every program seeing these results? Because CLASS-aligned coaching is hard to implement without the right systems in place. Many educators and coaches struggle with:

• Inconsistent feedback due to lack of structure
• Limited time and resources for regular observations
• Variability in scoring, especially with multiple raters
• Difficulty tracking growth across CLASS domains

These gaps can make it challenging for even the most committed educators to grow.

How TORSH Makes CLASS Coaching Work

That’s where TORSH comes in.

Our platform is designed to make CLASS-aligned coaching efficient, reliable, and scalable. Here’s how we do it:

• Video-Based Coaching
  Teachers upload classroom videos that coaches can review asynchronously. This not only saves time but also allows for timestamped, CLASS-aligned feedback. Teachers can reflect on real interactions and get targeted support where it counts.
• Structured Feedback & Double Coding
  With TORSH, multiple reviewers can independently code the same video. Side-by-side comparisons help ensure inter-rater reliability, reduce bias, and provide more meaningful feedback.
• Data-Driven Growth Tracking
  TORSH’s analytics tools visualize performance trends across CLASS dimensions. You can track growth over time, spot areas for improvement, and ensure your coaching efforts are actually moving the needle.

Best Practices for CLASS Coaching with TORSH

To get the most out of your CLASS coaching efforts, we recommend:

✅ Regular video observations for more consistent feedback

✅ Teacher self-reflection before receiving coach input

✅ Using double coding to improve scoring accuracy

✅ Leveraging data and analytics to drive coaching focus

Got questions? Contact us anytime to schedule a personalized demo to see TORSH in action. 

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Breaking Down Barriers in Early Intervention

Early Intervention Providers (EIPs) are at the forefront of helping children with autism and their families navigate social-emotional development. However, their work often comes with logistical and technological challenges that can impede progress. Many EIPs work in home settings where reliable Wi-Fi isn’t always available, and they need secure, easy-to-use tools for data collection, reflection, and coaching. This is where TORSH has made a transformative impact.

Bridging the Technology Gap

The Building Interactive Social Communication Project (BISC), an innovative early intervention program through Indiana University, turned to TORSH to address key field challenges. EIPs needed a way to record video reflections and review them in real-time without storing data on their devices—a requirement to maintain HIPAA and FERPA compliance. With TORSH, they can:

• Capture video in the field without needing an internet connection.
• Securely store and manage intervention data, ensuring privacy and accessibility for the right team members.
• Engage in structured video reflection, allowing providers to assess and adjust their approaches for better outcomes.
• Collaborate seamlessly, connecting field providers, mentors, and researchers to improve intervention fidelity and effectiveness.

The TORSH Talent platform shows recent video uploads

The Impact: Measurable Improvements for Providers, Parents, and Children

Since integrating TORSH, BISC has reported significant improvements across multiple areas:

• Provider Success: EIPs have quickly adopted the system with minimal training time, allowing them to focus more on their work with families.
• Parent Empowerment: TORSH enables parents to actively participate in their child’s development, fostering a stronger parent-child bond and increasing self-efficacy.
• Child Development: Children demonstrate increased motivation to engage socially and take a more active role in their learning journey.

What Makes BISC’s Approach Unique?

Two key aspects set BISC apart from other early intervention models:

1. A Unique Developmental Sequence – BISC provides a structured approach that EIPs can easily implement. Providers see early progress, reinforcing their confidence and effectiveness.
2. Mediated Learning – The program focuses on fostering an internal desire in children to engage socially and learn, rather than relying solely on external motivation.

Seamless Implementation with TORSH

A major concern for the BISC team was the potential learning curve in adopting a new technology. However, the transition to TORSH was remarkably smooth. Providers quickly adapted to the platform, eliminating the need for additional expensive hardware like iPads. One of the program leaders shared their initial skepticism:

“I was expecting it to take a lot of startup time and a learning gap with providers, and it didn’t. Your team did so well with the implementation. In the back of my mind, I kept thinking, what if this doesn’t work, and we have to buy iPads again (and never get them back)? But thank goodness, everything is smooth.”

The Future of Early Intervention with TORSH

As BISC continues its work, the team seeks to expand research efforts and scale implementation with TORSH. By leveraging data-driven insights and enhancing collaboration between intervention providers, mentors, and researchers, BISC aims to refine and improve intervention strategies that make a lasting impact on children and families.

TORSH is more than just a coaching tool—it’s a solution that empowers early intervention teams to work more effectively, drive measurable change, and ultimately help children learn how to learn.

For more information about BISC and how to participate in their upcoming Early Intervention research, click here. 

To learn more about TORSH and see a demo of the Talent platform, click here.

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Win More RFPs with the Right Coaching Platform

As an Educational Consultant, your expertise is your greatest asset — but in today’s competitive RFP landscape, how you deliver that expertise can make or break your success. Districts expect flexible, data-driven, and scalable coaching solutions — and the right tools can set you apart.

The key to winning more RFPs is finding the right tools that allow you to showcase measurable results, flexibility, and scalability. TORSH Talent is an all-in-one coaching platform that can help you stand out in the RFP process, equipping you with data-driven insights, personalized coaching tools, and hybrid solutions. Let’s explore how you can leverage the right tools to succeed as an EC and why TORSH Talent should be at the top of your list.

The Importance of Choosing the Right Coaching Platform for Educational Consultants

Why It Matters

In today’s educational landscape, districts are looking for solutions that go beyond the basics. They need coaching platforms that can deliver personalized, real-time feedback, drive instructional improvement, and adapt to the diverse needs of educators and providers — both in-person and virtually. As an EC, having the right platform is crucial to proving your ability to deliver these results.

Selecting the right coaching platform can make or break your proposal. It can elevate the quality of your professional development, providing the districts you serve with the tools to make a long-lasting impact.

What to Look For in a Coaching Platform:

• Flexible Delivery Methods: The ability to offer in-person, hybrid, and remote coaching is non-negotiable in today’s world.
• Data and Analytics: Districts need measurable outcomes. Look for platforms that allow you to easily track and share progress and improvement over time.
• Ease of Use: The easier it is for teachers and administrators to use, the more likely districts will adopt and appreciate the platform.

Scalability: Whether serving small districts or large, you need a platform that can scale with your growing client base and adjust to district size and complexity.

The Rise of Hybrid Professional Learning

Hybrid professional learning has rapidly become the norm, with districts seeking flexible ways to engage their staff in continuous development. As schools balance in-person instruction with virtual components, professional learning must also reflect that shift.

The Challenge for ECs

For ECs, this trend presents both opportunities and challenges. While hybrid learning allows you to offer a flexible model that meets varying district needs, it also requires robust tools that work seamlessly across both formats. The right tools are critical to ensure smooth transitions between in-person and virtual coaching, while still delivering high-impact feedback.

Why Hybrid Matters:

• Flexibility: Districts are drawn to solutions that offer flexibility. A hybrid model allows you to meet teachers wherever they are, whether in the classroom or working remotely.
• Ongoing Support: With hybrid professional learning, you can offer ongoing coaching and feedback, regardless of geographical constraints. This is key to delivering results that last.
• Adaptability: As an EC, your coaching needs to adapt to evolving district goals, school schedules, and staff availability. Hybrid platforms give you the freedom to adjust your approach based on the moment’s needs.

TORSH Talent – A Leading Solution for Educational Consultants

When you’re searching for the best tools to deliver impactful coaching and win more RFPs, TORSH Talent is your go-to platform. TORSH provides a comprehensive set of tools that help Educational Consultants scale their coaching and deliver measurable outcomes, whether in-person or virtual.

What TORSH Talent Offers:

• Video-Based Coaching: Capture real-time classroom moments and use video as a central tool for reflection, feedback, and coaching. TORSH’s video-based platform allows consultants to provide direct, actionable feedback to educators that leads to immediate improvement.
• Real-Time Data Tracking and Reporting: Districts want data. TORSH Talent delivers detailed analytics on teacher performance and progress, making it easy to demonstrate the impact of your coaching to administrators and stakeholders.
• Scalability and Flexibility: TORSH’s platform works for districts of all sizes, from small teams to large-scale implementations. It’s built to grow alongside your consulting practice and allows you to meet the specific needs of each district.
• User-Friendly Interface: A platform’s effectiveness is measured by how well it’s adopted. TORSH Talent offers an intuitive, easy-to-use platform that teachers, providers, coaches, and administrators will love.

How TORSH Helps You Win RFPs:

TORSH Talent positions you as the expert with advanced tools that district leaders want to see. Its ability to provide measurable data, improve teacher performance, and support hybrid coaching environments gives you a competitive edge in the RFP process. Plus, it’s backed by a track record of success, so you can include real-world examples of how TORSH has driven results.

Why TORSH Talent is Ideal for Hybrid Professional Learning

Delivering hybrid professional learning requires seamless integration between virtual and in-person coaching methods. TORSH Talent provides Educational Consultants with the tools they need to ensure that hybrid coaching is just as effective — if not more so — than traditional models.

Key Features for Hybrid Learning:

• Integrated Video Coaching: Video allows you to bridge the gap between in-person and remote coaching. Capture classroom moments for later reflection, provide virtual feedback sessions, or conduct remote coaching in real-time.
• Centralized Data Management: TORSH Talent allows you to track progress and results across all teachers, no matter where they are. You’ll always have the data you need to demonstrate growth and improvement.
• Feedback and Reflection Tools: Coaches and teachers can engage in continuous coaching cycles, no matter the setting. TORSH’s platform allows for real-time feedback and reflection, whether in-person or remotely.
• Scalability: TORSH Talent’s flexibility ensures it works just as well for small rural districts as it does for large urban school systems, making it an ideal tool for consultants in any environment.

Getting Started with TORSH Talent

Are you ready to take your coaching practice to the next level? TORSH Talent offers a variety of resources to help Educational Consultants integrate the platform into their proposals and win more RFPs. Here’s how you can get started:

• Success Playbook: Download our playbook for tips and strategies on positioning TORSH Talent in your proposals.
• Webinar Recording: Watch our latest webinar where experts discuss how to win RFPs with TORSH Talent.
• Email Templates: Access ready-made email templates to pitch TORSH to districts and include it in your RFP submissions.
• Sample Proposal Outline: Get a customizable outline you can use in your next RFP response.

As Educational Consultants, choosing the right platform can make all the difference in winning RFPs and delivering exceptional coaching outcomes. TORSH Talent provides the flexibility, data, and results-driven tools you need to set yourself apart in the competitive RFP landscape. Start leveraging TORSH Talent today and elevate your proposals with the winning combination of expertise and technology.

Ready to position yourself as the go-to consultant for high-impact, scalable coaching?
Download our RFP Success Toolkit or schedule a demo to see how TORSH Talent can help you win your next proposal — and every one after that.

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KIPP DC Public Schools, the second-largest preK–12 district in Washington, DC, is dedicated to providing students with access to high-quality, culturally affirming education. Central to this mission is their commitment to hiring exceptional talent—whether or not they are certified teachers—and helping them grow into top educators. Read on to see how KIPP DC used TORSH Talent to help streamline teacher recruitment and development.

KIPP DC streamlines teacher recruitment and professional development with TORSH Talent

Transforming Teacher Recruitment with TORSH Talent

After the COVID-19 pandemic, KIPP DC aimed to transition back to in-person interviews. However, scheduling in-person demo lessons for time-strapped principals and district leaders posed a challenge. Rather than requiring candidates to present their demo lessons multiple times, the hiring team sought out technology to streamline the evaluation process.

Shanelle Trenard, Associate Director of Instructional Hiring at KIPP DC, initially considered having candidates film lessons on their phones and upload them to Google Drive. However, concerns about data security prompted the team to explore a more secure solution. That’s when they turned to TORSH Talent, an innovative coaching and professional learning platform.

Secure and Convenient Demo Lesson Review with TORSH Talent

One of TORSH Talent’s standout features is its secure video upload functionality, enabling seamless collaboration across the district.

TORSH Talent’s flexible platform allows for various modes of teacher development

• Reimagined Demo Lessons: Candidates present their demo lessons in person on a KIPP DC campus, and the hiring team records and uploads the lessons to TORSH Talent. School leaders across the district can log in at their convenience to review and assess multiple candidates.
• Data-Driven Hiring Decisions: KIPP DC’s hiring team plans to implement competency-based rubrics and data-driven assessments in TORSH Talent, ensuring a thorough and consistent evaluation process.

“This year we focused more on quality over quantity, and TORSH Talent has definitely helped us do that.”

— Shanelle Trenard, Associate Director of Instructional Hiring, KIPP DC

Nurturing Exceptional Teachers through the Capital Teaching Residency

As one of Washington, DC’s highest-performing school districts, KIPP DC prioritizes teacher quality. When hiring, the focus is less on prior teaching experience and more on whether candidates are mission-aligned and committed to continuous growth.

For individuals without teaching credentials—such as recent graduates or career changers—KIPP DC offers a pathway to state licensure through the Capital Teaching Residency. This program welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and provides intensive, hands-on training, including mentorship and coaching.

TORSH Talent: Supporting Teacher Development in the Residency Program

KIPP DC leverages TORSH Talent to deliver personalized, job-embedded coaching to Capital Teaching Residents. The platform supports both synchronous and asynchronous learning, ensuring residents receive ongoing, tailored feedback to help them grow as educators.

• Pathway to Licensure: As an accredited Educator Preparation Program (EPP), residents engage in meaningful coursework that aligns with the daily work of high-performing teachers. Torsh seamlessly integrates with our learning management system, enabling resident faculty to grade teaching videos and provide actionable feedback on residents’ practice.
• Feedback for Growth: Residents utilize the goals feature to set performance objectives aligned with the built-in rubrics. With support from the residency team, Capital Teaching Residents work towards mastery with clear action steps and models provided in the exemplar showcase.

With over 100 Capital Teaching Residents becoming KIPP DC Teachers of the Year, and 70% of alumni remaining in teaching or leadership roles after four years, the program is a proven success.

Professional development and teacher coaching can take place in virtual or hybrid settings with TORTH Talent

TORSH Talent: Empowering KIPP DC’s Mission for Educational Equity

Thanks to TORSH Talent, KIPP DC has not only streamlined its recruitment process but has also fostered a culture of continuous improvement and educational excellence. By investing in both quality hiring and ongoing professional development, KIPP DC continues its mission to ensure every student has access to top-tier educators dedicated to transforming lives through education.

To find out more about how you can use TORSH Talent to streamline your teacher development, book a demo today. 

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If you step into any early learning space, you will witness educators engage with their little learners individually and uniquely. One teacher may show a toddler how to carefully pick up and stack blocks to help them build fine motor skills. Another might clap with a preschool-aged student as they practice sounding out a word on a whiteboard. At their core, these examples are developmentally appropriate practices (DAP), where teachers are adapting their instructional practices to match each child’s developmental level. 

To the untrained eye, this concept in action may seem intuitive and straightforward. While DAP is widely understood as a highly effective practice for supporting healthy development during a child’s early years, these teaching methods do not mature on their own. Quality professional development (PD) drives quality classroom practice, with DAP as well as other evidence-based models for student learning. 

Let’s explore why DAP and practice-based coaching work well together, and how modern technology can enhance both to support children’s optimal development.

Why Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) Matter in Early Education

Adapted from the original definition created by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), The University of Maine defines DAP as follows:

 “[Developmentally appropriate practices are] an approach to education that guides early childhood professionals in everyday practice. It comes from more than 75 years of research on child development and early learning…and gives early childhood professionals information from which to make decisions.”

~The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

Three areas  in particular help educators determine the appropriateness of an everyday practice or interaction with a young child:

• Age appropriateness, or practices that support a child of a particular age and stage of growth;

• Individual appropriateness, or approaches that nurture a specific child’s development; and

• Cultural and social appropriateness, or practices that align with and respect each child and family’s identity as well as their community.

PennState Extension summarizes the intent of using DAP across these areas as meeting individual children where they are developmentally. In other words: “Teachers… get to know [children] well—and [enable] them to reach [individual] goals that are both challenging and achievable.”

Clearly, the right materials, learning space, observation cycles, and resources that reinforce staff knowledge support instructional practices tailored to a child’s developmental stage.

Challenges with Implementing Developmentally Appropriate Practices

As straightforward as developmentally appropriate best practices sound, this approach to teaching is not necessarily intuitive. Common challenges that programs face with implementing DAP include:

• A mismatch between an individual teacher’s personal beliefs about DAP and their self-reported or actual practices (Şahin-Sak, Tantekin-Erden & Pollard-Durodola, 2016)
• Partial or inconsistent use of DAP within a classroom
• Lack of ongoing support for educators with applying appropriate instructional practices in education settings

Every early childhood program and educator benefits from intentional practice, refinement, and ongoing continuous improvement around DAP in order to drive effective growth for young children. This is where quality professional development, paired with the right technology, comes into play.

High-Quality PD Yields High-Quality Practices

Many in the early childhood field already recognize that adult learning is an ongoing process; not a one-and-done effort. To improve teaching practices and drive positive outcomes for young children and their families, an early childhood educator needs continuous support to build individual skills and weave them into instructional practices. 

Quality PD is essential for early childhood education professionals to purposefully implement DAP. 

Research indicates certain professional learning models are particularly impactful with changes to teaching practices. One study found that targeted training provided via classes to early childhood teachers helped decrease teachers’ contrasting beliefs and practices that go against the principles of DAP, removing a key barrier to their adoption (Heisner & Lederberg, 2011).

Other effective professional development strategies include:

• Online courses designed for independent learning around particular topics
• Staff learning communities organized for peer collaboration in a supportive environment
• Practice-based coaching (PBC) tailored to individual practitioner needs

Coaching is most impactful in driving tangible shifts to teacher practices, whether it serves to help educators meet Head Start performance standards, embrace DAP best practices, or achieve other program priorities.

The power of coaching to improve DAP best practices

Strong relationships between coaches and mentees has proven effective in shifting developmentally appropriate instructional practices across a wide range of learning areas. Programs focused on social-emotional development via the Pyramid Model benefit just as much from practice-based coaching (PBC) as those concentrating on literacy development in the classroom.  

Part of the power behind PBC is helping staff recognize what specific DAP best practices look like in action and adapting them into their approaches. A high-quality coaching program allows teachers to self-reflect and receive targeted feedback from their coach, while also celebrating progress.

A few ways that an early childhood educator may set goals for coaching around DAP include:

• Refining their strategies for building relationships with families and learning about their cultural, linguistic, and personal backgrounds (key to “getting to know” each child)
• Shifting how they adapt the same teaching strategy for early numeracy skills (like recognizing and naming numbers) to children at different cognitive development stages
• Learning how to effectively and correctly use early childhood assessments to determine where a child is in their development

5 Ways Technology Supports Developmentally Appropriate Practices

No matter what learning goals a program sets with DAP, technology is quickly becoming a crucial part of effective practitioner growth. In particular, online learning platforms (OLPs) form the backbone for many successful adult learning models, including PBC.

The right technology can connect educators, streamline data collection, and drive improvements in developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood organizations.

Let’s explore five ways that technology cultivates a culture of continuous improvement and growth when it comes to DAP, as well as what features administrators should look for when choosing an OLP.

1. Creates visibility into teachers’ practices

OLPs must allow coaches and other professional learning practitioners to see teaching practices in action—without solely depending on live, in-person observations. While valuable, such observations are time- and resource-intensive, especially for early learning programs serving multiple sites or large regions.

This is where video technology can help reduce costs to programs and boost visibility into classroom practices. 

OLPs that have native video capabilities create flexible opportunities for:

• Teachers to record their practices for self-reflection or goal-setting
• Coaches to witness teachers’ instructional strategies anytime, anywhere—and provide specific feedback to teachers via time-stamped comments 
• Teachers and coaches to connect virtually for individual sessions, from any location at a time that works around their daily responsibilities
• Program leaders to curate videos demonstrating high-quality DAP in action for other educators to explore

TORSH Talent stands out with respect to these capabilities. Its mobile app allows teachers to record practices, even without internet access, and later upload videos when connectivity is restored. The platform provides programs with a digital library to gather exemplary videos and additional resources for collective learning purposes. Lastly, administrators, teachers, and coaches can fine-tune user permissions, ensuring that only those team members authorized to see a video can access it in the solution.

2. Centralizes program resources and guidelines for DAP

In addition to visibility into practice, an OLP must allow programs and practitioners to develop a repository of materials that guide any professional learning approach used to improve DAP. 

TORSH Talent’s Resource Library can include those videos of exemplary practices as mentioned above, but it can also house:

• Standardized rubrics and frameworks to guide coaches with engaging mentees consistently in embracing DAP best practices
• Goal-setting templates to establish each teacher’s coaching goals in connection to program priorities around DAP
• Policies and requirements for educators related to utilizing DAP, participating in professional development efforts, and more

Learn more about this and other critical features available within our all-in-one professional learning platform, designed to support the unique needs of early learning programs.

3. Monitors key data to measure PD impact and DAP fidelity

Continuous data insights, reflection, and improvement are necessary for the ongoing cycle of DAP best practices.

At the individual level, the right OLP supports teachers and coaches by capturing metrics that pertain to their unique goals around DAP best practices. Data insights may include coaching session frequency, total coaching time, self-reported progress on goals, and more.

Moving up a level, OLPs can also help coaches explore patterns about their engagement across mentees, perhaps even surfacing areas of growth for a coach themselves in how they engage with teachers and drive their successes with DAP. 

At the highest level, program administrators need an OLP that synthesizes all these data and more—even from sources outside of the platform itself—to analyze the overall impact of professional learning efforts on critical priorities related to DAP. 

TORSH Talent supports all three layers of data analysis and collection. With configurable data collection forms, customizable insight reports, and multiple forms of data integration with other education platforms, staff at every level of an early learning program have the insights they need all in one central location.

4. Develops individual learning paths for independent growth

Even in an organization that emphasizes a practice-based coaching model, educators benefit from independent resources and learning opportunities. OLPs that not only support coach-mentee relationships but also facilitate self-learning offer a winning combination to early childhood education programs.

In addition to TORSH Talent’s virtual coaching features, your program can utilize customizable Learning Paths to cultivate professional growth. Learning Paths offer self-paced modules and courses that target specific training areas based on program data, coaching observations, and individual educator needs including:

• Targeted professional development to focus on specific areas for growth or skills, helping teachers continuously improve their practice.
• Courses structured to meet specific certification or recertification needs, making it especially useful for early-career educators.
• Flexible, asynchronous learning opportunities for educators to upskill on their own time, which is critical for those balancing heavy workloads.

The best part? The Learning Paths modules can point directly to those exemplary resources curated in the Resource Library, making it easy for educators to access a wide variety of learning tools at the click of a button.

5. Cultivates collaborative learning in hybrid or virtual environments

Last but not least, the right OLP creates space for easy collaboration. These features are especially handy for programs that utilize a peer-to-peer mentorship model or otherwise wish to facilitate collective learning among their staff. 

For instance, professional learning communities (PLCs) empower teachers to share reflections, ask for colleagues’ input, or keep up to date with the latest insights related to DAP best practices in the classroom. When exploring technologies to support a PLC, program administrators should look for OLPs that flexibly adapt to a virtual, hybrid, and in-person version of this collaboration model.

TORSH Talent’s Communities feature allows PLC members to connect asynchronously and access the curated Resource Library as part of their PLC engagement.. Educators aren’t limited by the bounds of their physical program sites, either. TORSH often sees its early learning partners use Communities to facilitate multi-site PLCs on key topics like DAP. 

Drive High-Quality, High-Impact DAP Best Practices With TORSH

Ready to up-level your early childhood educators’ developmentally appropriate instructional strategies? TORSH Talent is the ideal platform for your professional development needs. From designing targeted Learning Paths to facilitating high-quality virtual, hybrid, and in-person coaching, early childhood education programs benefit from the easy-to-use and secure tools built into TORSH Talent, including:

• Video-based observation
• Targeted, specific feedback to teachers on their interactions with children and families
• Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with coaches and among peers
• On-demand training for professional learning and certification
• Individualized coaching tools for goal setting and tracking
• Insights to guide professional learning and training

Discover how TORSH Talent can support your practitioners to take DAP to the next level, ensuring they meet every child and family where they are to help them thrive.

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In early childhood education, the Pyramid Model is a powerful framework to foster social-emotional competence. Yet, implementing this model effectively requires more than just good intentions—it necessitates a structured, systematic approach in which educators are supported by practice-based coaching. This blog explores how practice-based coaching not only supports the Pyramid Model but also transforms its application in real-world settings, as demonstrated by two TORSH customers who have seen remarkable success.

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Table of Contents

• SEL in Early Education: Why the Pyramid Model Matters
•  How SEL Impacts Early Childhood Outcomes
• Layered SEL Support for Children and Families
• Practice-Based Coaching Is the Heart of the Pyramid Model
•  Stories From The Field: Combining Practice-Based Coaching and the Pyramid Model for Social-Emotional Development
• Ensure Coaching Supports Your Pyramid Model Implementation with TORSH

SEL in Early Education: Why the Pyramid Model Matters

Positive social-emotional development in young children relies on attentive adults supporting specific skill-building that matches a child’s developmental growth. With effective practices, educators will successfully support most students as they develop their social-emotional competencies. However, some children will still struggle with things like challenging behaviors or strong emotions, especially those impacted by trauma or other adverse childhood experiences. 

Fortunately, no matter what support a child needs to grow socially and emotionally, early childhood educators can turn to the Pyramid Model for help!

The Pyramid Model is a comprehensive framework for early educators to aid in developing core social and emotional skills in young children. It is a powerful and preventive approach that sets up little learners for long-term success.

Using the Pyramid Model for supporting social-emotional competence in children requires thoughtful program-wide implementation and a structured approach to developing educators’ effectiveness with the model’s strategies. In other words, programs need a quality professional development strategy in place. 

And the most effective strategy for adopting the Pyramid Model leans on a practice-based coaching framework.

Let’s unpack the connection between this method of professional learning and the impact it has on programs embracing the Pyramid Model for social-emotional competence.

How SEL Impacts Early Childhood Outcomes

It may be obvious to most early learning experts, but it is worth remembering why social-emotional learning (SEL) is so crucial for our littlest learners in the first place.

Between the ages of birth through 5 years old, children undergo incredible physical, emotional, and linguistic growth. They learn to recognize more than 10,000 words (Shipley & McAfee, 2015). They develop critical gross and fine motor skills that allow them to move through the world. And, they practice a huge array of capabilities that support their blossoming relationships with other people, as well as their own physical and emotional self-awareness and management. 

All of these skills—especially the social-emotional ones—are essential to their future success, from getting school-ready to “adulting” in the world beyond the classroom. Among the many positive outcomes for children associated with effective SEL are:

• Improved academic performance (Durlak et al., 2011; Taylor et al., 2017)
• Lower truancy and absenteeism (Huan Wang et al., 2016; Cook et al., 2014)
• Fewer challenging behaviors and psychological distress (Reback, 2010)

Further, SEL benefits persist as young learners grow. A meta-analysis in 2017 examined the long-term impact of SEL interventions provided to children in kindergarten. Those who received this support were, on average, more likely to:

• Graduate from high school
• Complete a college degree
• Obtain stable employment in adulthood

Continuous, systemic SEL remains an important learning thread for children until they graduate from high school (Mahoney et al., 2021). And it all starts in early childhood.

But the challenge becomes how to systematically and effectively implement SEL supports for our littlest learners. This is where the Pyramid Model comes in.

Layered SEL Support for Children and Families

From nurturing positive relationships to managing challenging behavior, the Pyramid Model supports early childhood professionals and students with SEL. 

According to the National Center of Pyramid Model Intervention, the Pyramid Model of Social and Emotional Competence is “a framework of evidence-based practices for promoting young children’s healthy social and emotional development.” Though not itself a curriculum for SEL, the model creates a structure through which early childhood programs can systematically nurture core life skills in little learners. 

Image: Pyramid Model (NCPMI)

The Pyramid Model includes four layers of support (listed below from the bottom of the pyramid upward): 

• Effective Workforce
• Nurturing, Responsive Relationships & Environments
• Targeted Social-Emotional Supports
• Intensive Interventions

Those strategies at the bottom of the pyramid apply to all children and families across all programming. Moving up each layer focuses on support for more targeted populations, such as children with disabilities or special needs, and others who may benefit from intensive services such as home-based early interventions.

Research has demonstrated the power of applying the Pyramid Model for promoting social-emotional competence in children. One recent study in Australia found that among preschools that trained their educators on the Pyramid Model, children developed core social and emotional skills at a faster rate compared with children at other preschools (Swalwell & McLean, 2021). 

Is it any surprise that this entire model relies on having high-quality staff implementing effective teaching practices?

Program administrators should immediately recognize that at the heart of high-quality teaching lies high-quality professional development that nurtures this effective workforce—including impactful mentoring strategies like practice-based coaching.

Practice-Based Coaching Is the Heart of the Pyramid Model

Many of us in early childhood education already know the power of having the right job-embedded professional learning for teachers. A coaching process to support classroom teachers can impact positive child outcomes in areas like early literacy development. A coaching relationship can also improve teachers’ effectiveness and accuracy by using tools like early childhood assessments. Last, coaching supports programs using the Pyramid Model for challenging behavior in young children and social-emotional growth in general. 

So what does effective professional learning and coaching look like when it comes to the Pyramid Model? 

First, coaching must be systemic. In one 2021 study, researchers supported 92 teachers with systemic PD and coaching around how to effectively implement the Pyramid Model with children in their classrooms at an elevated risk of worse social and emotional outcomes. They found that systemic support (including a practice-based coaching cycle) increased implementation fidelity among educators and improved social and behavioral outcomes among children. A 2023 study and a 2022 study both found similar results with variations on these professional learning supports. 

When given systemic, targeted, practice-based coaching, educators are better able to utilize the Pyramid Model. 

Second, coaching must be consistent. Whether it’s delivered one-on-one or through group settings, a practice-based coaching framework is more impactful when teachers receive this kind of support on a regular basis throughout a program year. That’s why one of the Head Start performance standards concentrates just on the professional learning ecosystem of a program, and the importance of developing a cyclical process of ongoing engagement between coach and mentee. 

Stories From The Field: Combining Practice-Based Coaching and the Pyramid Model for Social-Emotional Development

Educators can learn from their fellow early learning professionals who have successfully leveraged practice-based coaching to bolster their program’s Pyramid Model adoption and drive positive SEL outcomes for young children. Let’s explore how two programs in Illinois and New Mexico made pivotal shifts in their professional development approaches to embrace coaching.

The Center: Early Childhood Professional Learning (ECPL)

The Center ECPL provides early learning educators throughout Illinois with free professional learning, resources, and other information. These offerings are all geared toward one purpose: helping programs implement high-quality, effective teaching practices that improve learning outcomes for young children and their families. 

The Center aids programs embracing the Pyramid Model as part of their approach to SEL  in two ways. First, the team holds ongoing webinar training opportunities centered on social-emotional competency. A recent discussion offered practical tips and strategies for developing culturally responsive social emotional supports, utilizing guidance from the Pyramid Model and another framework for cultural competence.

Second, through their ECPL Coaching Project, The Center provides teachers with virtual practice-based coaching and a professional learning communities-like model called Collaborative Learning Sessions. These offerings are provided through TORSH Talent, a secure web-based platform designed to streamline professional development and coaching practices for early education professionals. 

Thanks to the platform’s video-based coaching, time-stamped feedback capabilities, and a centralized library of resources, The Center delivers support to teachers in even the most rural or hard-to-reach areas of Illinois, helping them implement evidence-based teaching practices. 

Additionally, through TORSH Talent’s Communities feature, Collaborative Learning Sessions aid teachers across different programs to gather and discuss topics, projects, or professional development activities of interest. Among their focus areas is the effective use of the Pyramid Model and its benefits in supporting young children with development or learning disabilities. 

Cindy Berrey, Director of The Center explained, “Preschool teacher practices in the state of Illinois are improving because of our coaching model and virtual practice. And we know that a high-quality teacher positively impacts student outcomes.”

Read the full story to learn more about The Center’s success with applying modern technology to practice-based coaching for the Pyramid Model. 

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES, August 5, 2024 — TORSH, Inc., a leading educational technology provider, is proud to announce its newest partnership in Florida with the Early Learning Coalition of Osceola County (ELCOC). This collaboration will enable ELCOC to centralize and streamline its coaching services provided to early childhood educators across the county, increasing coaches’ efficiency and impact on instructional practices to drive positive child and family outcomes.

ELCOC’s vision is that every child enters school healthy and ready to learn. As part of their strategy to bring this vision to life, the organization’s team of Early Learning Specialists will partner with over 800 teachers at early education centers. Amanda Kelkenberg, CEO of ELCOC, stated, “Not only will TORSH increase the number of teachers our organization can support, it will increase the quality of instruction for over 4,500 young children and their families in Osceola County.” ELCOC selected the innovative TORSH Talent platform to aid in expanding their coaching team’s capacity to support more early learning providers more effectively.

Courtney Williams, CEO & Founder of TORSH, shared, “Supporting the program’s coaching practices and processes is a huge opportunity to also improve the lives of thousands of Florida families and their young children. TORSH is humbled to be part of this important work.”

TORSH Talent facilitates anytime, anywhere coaching, training, and collaboration among early childhood educators and their coaches. The platform will integrate well within ELCOC’s existing monthly and quarterly mentorship processes, and enhance the quality of collaboration between teachers and coaches. Video features with time-stamped commenting capabilities allow teachers to record and self-reflect on instructional practices ahead of coaching touchpoints. In turn, coaches can provide structured feedback on recorded practices and guide educators’ development with customizable rubrics and goal tracking features. These functionalities also support peer-to-peer feedback cycles between teaching staff.

Lastly, ELCOC leadership can leverage configurable data forms and extensive analytics within the TORSH Talent platform to examine overall efficacy and efficiency of the coaching program as a whole, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and areas of celebration. “Developing a highly qualified early learning workforce is one of our key strategic goals,” explained Amanda Kelkenberg, CEO of ELCOC. “With TORSH Talent, our team will have the right infrastructure to maximize our coaches’ impact on instructional practices and teachers’ growth — all within our program’s resources.”

ELCOC joins over 40,000 users across 35 states who utilize TORSH Talent to empower early learning providers, coaches, and administrators dedicated to improving student learning and development in the earliest years. Together, these organizations will set the stage for every child and every family to thrive.

For more information about TORSH, visit torsh.co.

About TORSH, Inc.
TORSH, a New Orleans-based education technology company, is dedicated to improving childhood outcomes by increasing educator instructional effectiveness. TORSH Talent, an online coaching and professional learning platform, enables organizations to support educator growth through the entire development cycle of observation, assessment, goal setting, feedback, and coaching. Learn more by visiting torsh.co.

About the Early Learning Coalition of Osceola County
Established in 1999, the Early Learning Coalition of Osceola County, Inc. (Coalition) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. The mission of the Coalition is to facilitate access to high quality early education and child care through an integrated system of services including linkages to health care and parenting supports. The Coalition provides services to more than 4,500 children through its two early learning programs, School Readiness and Voluntary Prekindergarten. Learn more by visiting elcosceola.org.

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES, August 5, 2024 — TORSH, Inc., a leading educational technology provider, is thrilled to announce a new collaboration with the Early Learning Center of Northwest Florida (ELCNWF). Through this partnership, ELCNWF will streamline their coaching processes in child care centers, focusing the mentor-mentee relationship on effective classroom strategies, access to resources, and quick and effective information sharing. By investing in improving this process, the coalition moves closer to achieving its vision to ensure all children receive world-class early education preparing them for kindergarten.  

ELCNWF selected TORSH Talent, an innovative professional development and coaching platform for early learning professionals, in order to improve the efficiency and impact of their early learning educator coaching process. 

TORSH Talent has initiatives specifically targeting early learning through their technology solutions, aiming to improve educational outcomes for young children and can be particularly beneficial for early learning environments in several ways:

1. Observation and Feedback: Early childhood educators can record their interactions with children and receive feedback from ELCNWF mentors and coaches. This helps in refining teaching strategies to better support the developmental needs of young children.
2. Professional Development: The platform provides access to professional development resources tailored for early childhood educators. This includes training modules, best practices, and instructional strategies that are essential for fostering a high-quality early learning environment.
3. Collaboration: TORSH Talent facilitates collaboration among early learning educators. Teachers can share videos and resources with their peers, participate in discussions, and learn from each other’s experiences.
4. Documentation and Assessment: The platform allows early learning educators to document and assess children’s progress over time. This can be particularly useful for early childhood education where continuous observation and assessment are crucial for understanding and supporting each child’s development.
5. Parental Involvement: Torsh’s solutions can also enhance parental involvement by sharing selected classroom videos and progress reports with parents, helping them stay informed about their child’s learning journey.

“The ELCNWF offers coaching to early learning educators which is a key element of high-quality professional development,” said Suzan Gage, Executive Director of ELCNWF. “By streamlining our internal processes, our coaches are able to shift their collective focus to in-class instruction, which helps to positively impact child outcomes.”  

Courtney Williams, Founder & CEO of TORSH, expressed, “Our team is honored to serve such an important mission in partnership with the Early Learning Coalition of Northwest Florida. Modern technology and data analysis offers so much potential to improve children’s lives, by improving the quality and impact of the educators who serve them.”

By using TORSH’s technology, early learning centers and educators can create a more effective and collaborative environment, ultimately improving the quality of early childhood education.

About TORSH, Inc.
TORSH, a New Orleans-based education technology company, is dedicated to improving childhood outcomes by increasing educator instructional effectiveness. TORSH Talent, an online coaching and professional learning platform, enables organizations to support educator growth through the entire development cycle of observation, assessment, goal setting, feedback, and coaching. Learn more by visiting torsh.co.

About the Early Learning Coalition of Northwest Florida
The Early Learning Coalition of Northwest Florida are the behind-the-scenes team ensuring young children in Northwest Florida have access to affordable, high-quality early learning experiences. We envision a Northwest Florida where all children receive world-class early education and care, thereby being fully prepared to learn upon entering kindergarten. We offer a variety of programs and supports, including Voluntary PreKindergarten (VPK), Mental Health Services, Child Development Screenings, and more. Learn more by visiting elcnwf.org.

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Dr. Meg Franko, Director of Early Childhood Initiatives, Butler Institute for Families, University of Denver, explains during a recent interview, “[Early caregivers and early educators] are the folks who take care of our youngest citizens and who are their earliest teachers, people who help them get ready for the rest of their lives. At the same time, [programs are] in a position where we’re really struggling to get people to enter and stay in the field.”

Research continues to reinforce the incredible impact of early learning programs on student outcomes, from improving school readiness to predicting success after high school graduation. Even K12 administrators recognize that investing in early education is well worth it to cultivate successful student learning. 

To tackle these staffing issues, many programs are finding creative ways to attract and retain high-quality educators in their classrooms. Some partner with high school Career and Technical Education programs to create hands-on opportunities to engage future teachers, while others collaborate with community colleges and workforce development organizations to build the pipeline of qualified candidates.

These strategies prove effective in drawing nascent educators into the field — but what about those already working with children and their families? Recruitment alone does not guarantee ongoing quality and support for early educators as they advance in their careers. 

This is where job-embedded professional development for teachers comes in. 

Table of Contents

• What Is Job-Embedded Professional Development, Exactly?
• Modernizing Professional Development in Early Education
• Four Strategies to Uplevel Job-Embedded Professional Development for Teachers
• Expand Your Job-Embedded Professional Learning Strategies with TORSH

What Is Job-Embedded Professional Development, Exactly?

Despite its growing popularity among early educators, job-embedded training is more than a buzzword. Let’s examine job-embedded professional learning more closely and see how it compares with other approaches to educator development.

Job-embedded learning typically refers to “learning that is grounded in day-to-day practice and is designed to enhance professional practice with the intent of improving children’s learning and development” (Croft et al., 2010). It often relies on teams of education providers collaborating through a variety of methods to identify and solve issues of practice in an ongoing manner. Programs that embrace cycles of continuous learning and improvement lean on this type of professional learning to support their staff.

One example of a job-embedded learning strategy is practice-based coaching, defined by the ECLKC as “a strategy that uses a cyclical process. . . that supports teachers’ use of effective teaching practices that lead to positive outcomes for children.” This model focuses on collaborative, targeted relationships between coaches and teaching staff that center mentorship on specific goals related to practice. 

In contrast, other “traditional” forms of adult learning are often provided as external training (workshops or “PD Days”). But these approaches are far less effective in nurturing shifts in teaching practices than job-embedded professional development for teachers. In their 2020 report, Debra Pacchiano, Ph.D., Rebecca Klein, M.S., and Marsha Shigeyo Hawley, M.Ed. highlight that traditional PD is limited as it:

• Lacks support to assist teachers with applying training information to practice
• Involves minimal to no time for teacher reflection and examining real, relevant problems of practice
• Offers few opportunities for teams to collaborate and learn from each other to support quality teaching practices

According to research examined by the Society for Research in Child Development, job-embedded supports like practice-based coaching have a greater impact and result in more benefits for teachers: “Coaching that supports domain-specific curricula is more successful in improving preschool children’s learning than coaching on general best practices for preschool teaching.”

Modernizing Professional Development in Early Education

The stakes are high for early education providers seeking to uplevel their approaches to teacher professional development. Quality instructional practices can be the difference between a child entering kindergarten, ready to learn in a classroom setting and a student who struggles with learning on day one. 

The consequences of school readiness (or lack of it) cannot be underestimated. In many cases, factors beyond educators’ direct control affect children’s kindergarten preparedness. For instance, socioeconomic gaps and racial inequities affecting families can result in some students entering the classroom already far behind their peers (NCES). More challenging still, gaps in academic performance as early as kindergarten persist even into the upper elementary grade levels (Princiotta & Germino Hausken, 2006).

These data underscore the importance of turning to empirically proven methods of improving teaching practice as the lever educators can maneuver to improve student outcomes. As such, job-embedded learning is all the more crucial for programs to invest time and effort into. 

However, not all job-embedded professional learning is equally impactful. Pacchiano, Klein, and Hawley explain that four key characteristics make these PD strategies most effective in the modern era:

• 1:1 coaching support: As explored earlier, one-off training is insufficient for adult learners to retain new knowledge, let alone apply it in new ways to their teaching. Individualized support like practice-based coaching for early childhood teachers is more effective in shifting practices for the benefit of young students. 
• Upskilling and self-learning: Early educators are busy! When programs offer opportunities for independent professional growth, they allow teachers to bolster their skills and even complete requirements for specific certifications on their own schedules around their many obligations. In particular, online courses work well to lead educators down tailored learning paths based on their learning opportunities or needs.
• Peer-to-peer collaboration: Collaboration can include formal mentorship relationships between colleagues as well as less formal gatherings like lunch-and-learns or professional learning communities (PLCs). Fostering a spirit of collaboration among teachers can boost morale, create space for staff to seek and receive support when needed, and nurture a culture of continuous improvement as a team.
• Data assessment and analysis: Metrics are essential to measure the effectiveness of all three characteristics above. The right data help educators and program administrators alike identify patterns of success and new ways to drive improvements to teaching practices that meet students’ needs.

With these characteristics of successful professional learning in mind, how can early learning organizations efficiently launch or uplevel a job-embedded upskilling program?

Four Strategies to Uplevel Job-Embedded Professional Development for Teachers

1. Invest In The Right Online Learning Platform For Your PD Needs

The first step to expanding and supporting job-embedded professional learning opportunities is identifying the best technology for your programs. The right online learning platform can make all the difference in either helping or hindering your team’s ability to engage in coaching efficiently, provide peer feedback and support, and measure the impact of coaching activities on program goals.

Solutions like the innovative TORSH Talent online learning platform provide all the tools needed to catalyze your job-embedded professional development program — all within your organization’s available resources. 

Let’s take coaching, for example. Teachers leverage TORSH Talent’s video recording features to capture classroom practices live, which they can review ahead of coaching sessions to self-reflect or identify opportunities for growth. In parallel, coaches can also review these recordings, leaving time-stamped feedback for their mentees with specific input related to their coaching goals. When a teacher and their coach next meet, whether it’s in-person or online, these prep steps set them up for a more targeted, productive session. 

These are just a few of the many resources available to early childhood teachers and coaches using TORSH Talent. Ready to learn more? Request a demo to discover how our platform can nurture your coaching practices and teachers’ professional growth as a continuous process. 

Looking for more tips as you search for the right online learning platform to meet your PD needs? Read our recent article for seven key questions every administrator should ask. 

2. Create Multiple Methods for Self-Paced Development

Another critical component of effective job-embedded training is self-learning. Asynchronous opportunities for upskilling give early educators autonomy and practical ways to continue building their teaching effectiveness on their own schedule. Many programs will use solutions like TORSH Talent’s Learning Paths to develop right-sized online modules and courses for:

• Targeted training on specific topics, identified based on program data or opportunities for educator growth sourced from coaching observations
• Certification requirements, either for new or ongoing education (especially helpful for teachers early in their career)
• Other self-paced learning opportunities based on educators’ interests or personal learning goals

The best part about online learning pathways is their flexibility to meet individual educator’s unique needs. For example, TORSH Talent allows administrators to curate which modules educators must complete in order to layer on learning with great intentionality and precision. And with such busy schedules, early childhood teachers appreciate the ability to complete requirements like certifications when and where it’s convenient for them.

When early childhood providers take time to develop self-learning opportunities for their staff, they create conditions for practitioners to improve teaching effectiveness. Further, they encourage a mindset of curiosity among educators, which can greatly encourage them to stay in the field and continue helping young learners grow and thrive.

3. Leverage Hybrid & Virtual Collaboration for Scalability

Like many early education program leaders, you may be exploring hybrid and virtual professional learning methods such as online coaching to stretch limited program dollars and staff resources to the maximum. But there are so many ways technology can support collaboration beyond coaching! 

Consider building peer-to-peer collaboration opportunities in a digital space for early childhood staff. As highlighted earlier, PLCs are a great way to foster peer collaboration. Many programs leverage PLCs that focus on particular challenges with teaching practices within their classrooms. This setup encourages teachers to take ownership of isolating, testing, and measuring changes to program instructional approaches to improve student outcomes. 

TORSH Talent’s Communities feature is the perfect place to launch a virtual PLC or complement an in-person one with online collaboration. This informal tool allows your staff to pose and answer questions among their peers. A comprehensive directory also allows you or PLC leaders to manage membership in specific Sharing Circles around particular topics or challenges.

Learn more about this and other collaboration features available for early childhood educators in TORSH Talent.

4. Gather The Right Data To Guide Continuous Improvement

Even with the best coaching and collaboration practices in place, job-embedded professional learning is nothing without data. After all, the ultimate goal of improving teachers’ effectiveness is to improve students’ learning and growth — which requires measuring the impact of your PD strategies.

Whether you manage a Head Start program working to meet performance standards or a preschool experimenting with a new curriculum, data are essential. Consider how you might synthesize outputs from early childhood assessments, coaching feedback, and more to paint a picture of your program’s effectiveness. What learning outcomes are educators successfully driving in young learners? Where might teachers benefit from additional training or support? 

Additionally, these learning outcomes will inevitably change as a program matures and shifts — and that means building an ongoing process for reviewing and analyzing data becomes critical.

TORSH Talent offers clear reporting and metrics that you can tailor to meet your specific program needs or measure particular goals. Additionally, the platform integrates seamlessly with many LTI-compliant platforms such as Canvas, Blackboard, and Sakai, allowing you to examine multiple data across existing tools to make informed decisions about professional learning and practices. These capabilities underpin a successful cycle of improvement where teachers grow and students thrive.

Expand Your Job-Embedded Professional Learning Strategies with TORSH

TORSH brings a wealth of expertise and experience in effective coaching and job-embedded professional learning for early childhood educators. The innovative TORSH Talent online learning platform is the ideal solution to support and enhance job-embedded professional learning practices within your early education program, with easy-to-use and secure tools to:

• Complete video-based observations
• Provide targeted, specific feedback to early learning educators on their interactions with children and families
• Nurture synchronous and asynchronous collaboration
• Individualize educator coaching and learning
• Give insights to guide professional learning and training

Uplevel your early childhood educator professional development needs with TORSH Talent. Request a demo today!

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