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About Teachscape

Our Mission

Effective teaching improves student achievement. That simple statement informs all of Teachscape's services. Our professional learning opportunities are systemic and capacity building, enabling educators throughout a school system—teachers, principals, coaches, parent coordinators, staff developers, and others—to raise the quality of teaching and learning in every classroom.

Customized, Data-Driven, and Integrated

Teachscape's approach is to work closely and collaboratively with each client to build internal capacity and embed effective instructional practices in all aspects of teaching. To that end, we customize our core service offerings—essential research-based approaches to literacy, mathematics, science, early childhood, new teacher induction, instructional leadership, and instruction for English language learners—based on district data, which we collaboratively collect and analyze with our clients.

Teachscape is able to customize and embed professional learning within a district through an integrated approach of face-to-face and Web-based studies that provide in-depth and differentiated learning opportunities in a scalable delivery model. Teachscape's powerful online platform provides multimedia case-based learning resources that feature best practice videos of teachers in unrehearsed and unscripted research-based lessons that are mapped to the standards and promote reflective practice. Facilitated study groups, which meet in both face-to-face and online sessions, are augmented with readings, assignments, seminars, and on-site consultants who offer "at-elbow" coaching and support.

Research-Based Theories of Action

Teachscape's mission is based on four research-based theories of action, which define a coherent and comprehensive approach to improving teaching practice to increase student achievement.

Theory of Action	Teachscape Application
Data identifies teaching and learning needs, focuses professional development priorities, and enables ongoing monitoring and refinement of the improvement effort.	The ongoing collection, analysis, and application of data throughout the service period serves to monitor progress, modify our approach, and measure outcomes.
Instructional Leaders are key in promoting, supporting, and sustaining improved outcomes.	Every program focuses on instructional leadership to build capacity and ensure ongoing support for effective teaching and improved learning.
Adult Learning is best supported through a range of strategies that: develop professional knowledge and skills; are differentiated; promote reflection and interaction; are job embedded, sustained, and focus squarely on teaching and learning.	Teachscape incorporates and reflects the National Staff Development Council Standards for Staff Development.
Technology-Enabled Professional Learning is the best way to differentiate the learning experience, model effective practice, offer learning in context and on demand, support in-depth studies, enable progress monitoring, and scale professional development, with consistency, across groups.	Teachscape's Web-based professional learning system is widely recognized as the best system in the country. It provides unparalleled access to extensive professional resources—supported by peer communication and collaboration tools—that can be used anytime and anyplace, thus greatly expanding the time for professional learning and discourse.

Our Reach and Results

Today, Teachscape serves more than 60,000 educators through partnerships with states, districts, and education support and reform organizations. Student achievement results demonstrate that a district engagement with Teachscape leads to significant and often dramatic academic gains for students.

In addition to comprehensive professional development consultancies with client districts, Teachscape also offers stand-alone seminars on improving instruction, and regional and national conferences that explore key educational issues. To further address the professional learning interests and needs of educators, Teachscape also offers online graduate credit courses—accredited by regional NCA- and NCATE- credentialed colleges and universities—and will offer an online master's degree program in the near future.

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