VC3 by Edthena

High-quality professional learning is foundational to educators’ success—and, ultimately, the success of their students—in the classroom.

To provide educators with the high-quality support they both need and deserve, Edthena recently launched VC3, the next evolution of the company’s award-winning video coaching platform. It features new coaching tools that empower teachers and instructional coaches to collaborate more efficiently, gain deeper insights into instructional practice, and engage in more meaningful professional learning.

The core of the coaching experience happens within the platform’s video conversation page. This is where educators add timestamped feedback to videos of classroom teaching. Not only does the updated conversation page in VC3 make it easier to leave comments, it encourages teachers and coaches to deepen their reflections. One example of this emphasis is the Insights tab which helps jumpstart the video analysis process for both coaches and teachers.

The Insights tab includes several AI-generated tools: open-ended questions to help the observer determine what to look for in the video; a student-to-teacher talk time graph to support a deep-dive into student engagement, language development, and confidence; and, a visual representation of the most frequently used words within the lesson to get a sense of the academic language used in the lesson.

This reimagined platform draws upon Edthena’s 14 years of experience helping educators add more than two million comments to nearly seven million minutes of classroom video. This includes educators from schools, districts, and teacher education programs from more than 20 states and multiple countries, including Alief Independent School District in Texas.

“With the help of Edthena, we are harnessing the power of video and innovative AI tools to level up our coaching practices,” says Amanda Maceo, professional development implementation strategist at the district. “We love the automatic summaries and closed captioning—they provide us with valuable insights. Plus, the talk time graph makes it easy to set clear and measurable goals for improvement.” Learn more.

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Original Article Published at Edtech Digest
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