Improve Teacher Practice. Retain More Staff. Raise Student Achievement.
Teaching Channel’s EMPOWER Platform brings professional learning and support for educators, all in one place, with exemplar videos, reflection, collaboration, and instructional coaching tools, and data and reports.
This school year you may be facing common, yet challenging obstacles - staffing shortages, supporting new teachers and retaining them, improving practice, and raising student achievement. We get it, we've been there, and we're here to help.
Hear How Education Leaders Are Benefiting From Using Our Platform
Support your new and experienced teachers, coaches, and leaders with 1,600+ exemplar videos, calibration tools, self-reflection, observation, PLCs, collaboration with our instructional coaching tools, professional learning data, and growth reports.
Capture
Your teachers can record their teaching practice using a phone, tablet, or laptop for video-based observations, instructional coaching opportunities and more.
Discuss
Teaching Channel and classroom videos offer endless opportunities for continuous PLC discussions and instructional coaching sessions. Observers can embed feedback in key moments during the lesson.
Observe
Access 1,600+ classroom exemplar videos from our video library to help educators observe and learn new strategies. Develop your own district library with a collection of your own exemplar videos.
Grow
Help all of your teachers succeed. Monitor your own or the team's success with professional learning activity data and growth reports to help you achieve your goals.
Get professional learning impact on day one. Explore how our EMPOWER Platform supports teachers, coaches, and leaders.
- Dashboard
- Resource Center
- Activity Center
- Calibration
- Data & Reports
Dashboard
Dashboard
Easily navigate our dashboard
- View statistics–videos watched, reflections, discussions, coaching
- Organize your activity the latest updates and To-Do items
- Find the latest Teaching Channel library videos and playlists
Resource Center
Resource Center
Reference videos, docs, links and more
- Search and watch 1,600+ classroom exemplar videos
- Collect and upload videos, docs, links & more to your own district or school Account Library
- Create your own video playlists and favorites
- Discover carefully curated video playlists from the Teaching Channel team
- Move Teaching Channel library videos or your Account Library videos to the Activity Center for collaboration and coaching
Activity Center
Activity Center
Create and organize all of your coaching activities
- Upload your own videos for reflection, PLC and peer feedback, and informal or formal coaching
- Reflect on videos from the Teaching Channel library or your Account Library–share with peers, observers, and others for collaborative discussions
- Conduct in-person observations and track growth data
- Embed notes, questions, related files for rich coaching conversations
Calibration
Calibration
Ensure observers are calibrated to give framework-aligned feedback teachers need—and trust
- Custom experiences using master-scored Teaching Channel videos or your own
- Deploy state credentialing or district calibration programs
- Talk to us about creating a solution that fits your needs
Data & Reports
Data & Reports
Access data for all professional learning platform activity
- Usage, video resources, and activity reports
- Engage with real-time instructional growth data
- Gain insights into improvements and where to direct professional learning
Explore Our Robust Video Library
Our 1,600+ exemplar videos are organized by topics.
Preview videos from several of our popular focus areas.
- Arts
- Classroom Culture
- Coaching
- Engagement
- English Language Arts & Reading
- English Language Learners
- Lesson Planning
- Math
- New Teachers
- Professional Learning
- Science
- Technology in the Classroom
Arts
Arts
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 660+ videos featuring the arts .
Popular videos in this category include:
- Exploring Symbolism: Your Life as Abstract Art (6-min)
- Elements of Art: Color, Space, and Texture (12-min)
- First Nations: Exploring Culture Through Art (13-min)
- Values & Virtues: Symbolism in Art (14-min)
Classroom Culture
Classroom Culture
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 200+ videos featuring strategies to enhance classroom culture.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Ready to Learn: Creating a Positive Classroom Culture (2-min)
- Jenna's Fifth Grade Class Culture (28-min)
- Investing in Student Relationships, Peer-to-Peer Culture, Belonging, & Psychological Safety (56-min)
- Class Culture: Attention with Respect (1-min)
Coaching
Coaching
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 150+ videos showcasing coaching techniques.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Coach and Teacher- Lesson Debrief (4-min)
- Pivoting as a Coach (3-min)
- Divergent Questioning in 8th Grade Math (22-min)
- Multiple Measures of Effective Teaching (7-min)
Engagement
Engagement
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 350+ videos featuring effective engagement techniques.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Challenge: Student Focus and Brain Breaks (4-min)
- Reading a Book Aloud (10-min)
- Mirror Words- What do you Notice? (2-min)
- Providing Extra Math Support in Small Groups (2-min)
English Language Arts & Reading
English Language Arts & Reading
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 490+ videos centered around English language arts and reading.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Rick's Reading Workshop: Silent Reading (4-min)
- Drop Everything and Read (14-min)
- Teaching a Phonics Pattern (24-min)
- Exploring the Elements of Poetry (16-min)
English Language Learners
English Language Learners
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 775+ videos showcasing strategies in working with English language learners.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Encouraging Academic Language and Discussion with ELD Students (8-min)
- Taking Pride in an English Language Learner (2-min)
- Learning Letters with Language Learners (7-min)
- Gamifying the Lesson for English Learners (3-min)
Lesson Planning
Lesson Planning
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 1,115+ videos centered around lesson planning.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Mid-Unit Check-Ins (12-min)
- Grade Band Planning Meeting (26-min)
- Claims, Evidence, & Reasoning: Planning (9-min)
- Five Ways to Start Your Lessons (1-min)
Math
Math
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 390+ videos diving into math curriculum.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Solving Problems Using Collaborative Math Talks (39-min)
- I Do, You Do, We Do- Math Fractions (8-min)
- Notice & Wonder Math Routine: Third Grade (22-min)
- Collaborative Memory in Math (4-min)
New Teachers
New Teachers
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 1,310+ videos featuring videos ideal for new teachers.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Advice for New Teachers (60-min)
- New Teacher Survival Guide: ADHD in the Classroom (11-min)
- Making Good Teachers Great: Shaping Teacher Identity (56-min)
- Implementing a New Curriculum (6-min)
Professional Learning
Professional Learning
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 245+ videos highlighting effective professional learning.
Popular videos in this category include:
- It's Okay to Fail! (2-min)
- Coaching for Equity (5-min)
- Building Coaching Relationships (4-min)
- Reflecting on Teaching After 20 Years (3-min)
Science
Science
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 415+ videos featuring science lessons.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Using Science Games (35-min)
- Singing in Science (6-min)
- Using Inquiry in Pre-K Science (60-min)
- Making Science Engaging (14-min)
Technology in the Classroom
Technology in the Classroom
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 155+ videos featuring effective technology uses and strategies in the classroom.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Using Technology for Hard-to-Teach Concepts (27-min)
- Finland: Discovery through Technology (14-min)
- Using Technology to Boost Confidence (3-min)
- New Teacher Survival Guide: Technology in the Classroom (16-min)
"The return on investment for using this platform has been tremendous. The entire district team is more reflective on practice. We have increased teacher retention, and most importantly, raised student achievement by improving the quality of instruction."
“Hands down, time is one of the greatest challenges when you are trying to lift major professional development work. I'm a convert to using video to support professional learning. It takes away the challenge of being in the same place at the same time so all these brilliant minds can come together.”
“There are sayings that have stood the test of time like, ‘seeing is believing,’ and video allows us to see good teaching in action and believe that we all can offer this in our own classrooms.”
