Edthena Blog

Districts spend an average of $18,000 per teacher per year on PD, but only 3 in 10 teachers improve. The research points to one missing step: coaching during implementation.

Principals know walkthroughs improve teaching, but the feedback obligation keeps them out of classrooms. Here’s how to fix the walkthrough-to-feedback pipeline.

Forty-four percent of teachers quit within five years. Mentored teachers are 2.85 times more likely to stay. Here’s what the research says makes mentoring work, and what most programs miss.

The University of Michigan and the University of Washington have used Edthena’s VC3 for 15 years to develop teacher candidates through structured reflection and video coaching.

CT’s lowest-funded district has 7 of 8 elementary schools outperforming reading projections. Here’s the coaching infrastructure that made it happen.

EdTech Innovation Hub covers how Notre Dame de Namur University is integrating Edthena’s VC3 video coaching platform into its teacher preparation programs, in partnership with the Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child.

Research says observation feedback improves teaching, but only when it’s timely, specific, and frequent. Here’s why most feedback fails and what principals can do.

Completing the Texas Reading Academy gives teachers the knowledge. But knowledge alone does not change classroom practice. The bridge is coaching that helps teachers implement structured literacy in their classrooms.

The FY2027 budget proposes consolidating Title II-A into the MEGA block grant with literacy and math mandates. Here is how coaching qualifies under ESSA evidence tiers and where it fits in each funding pathway.