| Features |
Benefits |
| Robust Content |
- Provides access to a wide range of strategies and resources from Teachscape's many content partners
- Brings the best experts in literacy, math, ELL instruction, science, and early childhood education direct to the desktop
- Delivers a wide range of examples of classroom practice that helps teachers see research in action
- Eliminates the need to create all your own professional learning resources
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| Content Creation Tools |
- Lets coaches and instructional leaders add content to existing resources or make new ones
- Permits the reorganization of content modules or mixing of resources from a variety of sources
- Allows the local district to create its own cases of professional practice
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| Coaching Tools |
- Gives instructional coaches the ability to work with more teachers every week by adding virtual coaching to face-to-face work
- Creates professional learning groups and assigns content to their workspace
- Posts a message board to a workspace to facilitate conversation and reflection on practice, sharing of lesson plans and student work, and more
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| Search |
- Saves valuable time in finding content that targets improvement needs
- Identifies all catalogued resources by content area, content sub-categories, grade level, and resource type
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| Journal |
- Provides educators with a private, personal space in which to keep notes, save ideas, and store thoughts
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| Reports |
- Identifies most frequently used resources for broader implementation of professional learning
- Monitors usage of the system, including last login, time on task, and work submitted for in-service credit
- Tracks system usage for demonstrating return on investment
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| Customization Options |
- Allows users to set interface colors to match district portals, school colors, etc.
- Access services to develop custom content
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| Complete Online System |
- Gives educators easy access to professional learning resources from anywhere at any time
- Relieves district staff from hosting and supporting additional applications
- Provides a secure login to maintain district security measures
- Ensures confidentiality through role-based access by several levels of users
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| Help and Support |
- Delivers context-sensitive support to users who need assistance
- Automates lost password recovery
- Includes telephone support to district leaders from 9am – 9pm Eastern Time
- Provides 24/7 email support with “next business day” maximum response time
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