TchTeams from The Teaching Channel

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I want to share some exciting news about a new development at Teaching Channel that will enable deeper collaboration and learning for teachers. It’s a big step in the growth of Teaching Channel, so I wanted explain why we’re taking it. We’ve been listening to you: from our monthly surveys to the hundreds of comments that come in daily from our growing community of 229,000 teachers. We hear how you’re watching Teaching Channel videos, modeling those strategies, and making them your own. We also have heard that you crave more feedback and collaboration. And we’re mindful of the  that emphasizes that teachers who have opportunities to collaborate are more likely to be satisfied with their jobs. So, I’d like to officially introduce —a robust and personalized platform for collaboration among you and your colleagues.

We believe  combines everything educators love about Teaching Channel with several new custom tools to collaborate around video, including:

• The ability for schools, districts, and education organizations to host and share their own videos of exceptional teaching practice
• A place for coaches, mentors, and new teacher training programs to use video as a means for reflecting and collaborating to improve teacher practices
• The ability for educators to share other resources along with video including lesson plans, presentations, and any other digital resources
• Direct integration with Google Docs and Microsoft Office to bring all of your PD assets into one place

As an organization our mission is to support and inspire teachers around video and we feel combining the power of video with socially-networked, online collaboration tools will enable educators to work together to grow professionally.  is a fee-based service that schools, districts, states, or educational organizations can license.

I think it is very important to remind you all that as a non-profit Teaching Channel.org videos will always be a free resource, that’s not changing. But, we also believe it’s important to offer new levels of support and collaboration to educators across the country.

If you think Tch Teams would be beneficial to your school or district, simply , or  to see Tch Teams in action!

P.S. If you can’t attend one of our webinars, sign-up anyway and we’ll send you a link to a recording.