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TORACE FOR EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAMS
 
 
 
 

Future-Ready Teachers Start with Smart Placement

Research shows that well-matched placements drive teacher readiness and improve retention. Torace helps districts and educator prep programs collaborate to build a stronger, more sustainable educator workforce.

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An older female cooperating teacher is mentoring a young Asian female student teacher attending an educator preparation program.

Who Can Use Torace?

Faculty & Staff

Torace gives access to up-to-date information on participant interests and needs.
  • Learn what your students want and need
  • Expand your qualified mentor pool
  • Use collected data to inform learning topics and modules
  • Create stronger career pipelines

Program Administrators

Track mentors and mentees as they move through the match process. 
  • Save time and simplify logistics
  • Make better aligned matches based on data
  • Collect consistent data for program improvement
  • Collaborate easily with district and school partners

Participants

Mentees and mentors gain more voice and choice in the match process.
  • Participants express their interests through event profiles
  • For events that use preferences, participants review and star favorite matches
  • Participants can be both a mentee and mentor in different events

District Partners

District and school staff can collaborate to develop stronger career pipelines.
  • Gain insight into staff interest in teacher leadership
  • Easily manage the mentor approval process
  • Collaborate with EPPs to align matches to hiring needs and opportunities

The Torace platform was user friendly and easy to navigate. The questions that were asked helped to pair me with the perfect mentor.

Chasity Jackson
7th Grade Life Science Teacher

What Can Torace Support?

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  • Collect information about what your students want from a match
  • Grow your pool of qualified mentors
  • Make better aligned matches informed by data
  • Collaborate within and across departments
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  • Easily collaborate with district and school partners
  • Collect information about mentors and mentees to make strong matches
  • Extract data for compliance and accountability reporting
  • Grow and scale your program with ease
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  • Increase candidate satisfaction with mentorship matches
  • Expand opportunities to connect people in the profession
  • Improve training and learning experiences
  • Grow your mentor pool
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  • Learn what new teachers want and need to grow
  • Easily recruit and screen mentors
  • Improve retention in the field
  • Enhance career satisfaction
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  • Learn teachers’ strengths and growth areas
  • Better understand what teachers want from professional development
  • Match teachers to mentors or professional development modules
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  • Collect information about what your students want from a match
  • Make better aligned matches informed by data
  • Use different match ratios to provide a variety of matches and experiences

How Does Torace Work?

In just 5 easy steps, maximize the impact of every placement!
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  • Create an Event
    Enter basic information to create an event and upload email addresses of potential participants.
  • Invite Participants
    Send email invitations. Participants accept and complete an event profile or decline.
  • Review Lists & Profiles
    Track interest in your event. If screening, assigned approvers review profiles and make determinations.
  • Learn Preferences
    Enable preferences to allow participants to review options and star favorites.
  • Make Matches
    Experiment with pairings and make matches. When ready, send email notifications.

Key Features

See what the Torace matching platform looks like.
The Torace event dashboard displaying winter student teaching placements.
Simplified Logistics
●  Use Torace or your own email to send invitations and match notifications at any time
●  Track participants at all stages of the event from invitation to finalized matches
●  Determine approval processes (if used) for mentors and mentees separately
●  Designate mentor approvers by site
The Torace matching page showing matched, notified, and staged mentees and mentors.
Effortless Matching
●  View eligible, unmatched pairs in your staging area
●  Filter, search, and sort in your pools to stay focused
●  Access profiles and preferences to enhance decision making
●  Match up to three mentees to a single mentor to leverage resources
Torace Add New Participant and Change Event Stages screens showing how flexible the Torace platform is.
Flexibility Throughout
●  Add participants via csv upload, copy and paste, or one-at-a-time
●  Toggle registration open and closed
●  Manage access to preferences for mentors and mentees separately
●  Update your customized invitation and match email messages
Torace Mentor Event Profile showing the information and notes for a mentor in the Torace system.
Enhanced Insights
●  Monitor interest in your event by subject, grade, site and pool to cultivate participation
●  Learn about participants’ professional characteristics and working styles from their profiles
●  Support pairing decisions by opting to use preferences
●  Export your event data to a spread sheet for additional analysis on stages, yields and matches

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