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TORACE FOR ORGANIZATIONS
 
 
 
 

Mentorship That Scales

Built to enhance the quality and efficiency of placements by aligning candidate needs, mentor strengths, and district priorities. Torace enables mentorship systems to grow without losing quality or cohesion.

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An experienced principal is mentoring an aspiring principal through a state education department sponsored program.

Who Can Use Torace?

State Departments & Standards Boards
  • Support policy implementation sustainability with easy to implement tools
  • Improve outcomes of student teaching, increase retention, and grow leadership
  • Get data across multiple institutions to inform best practices and refine policy recommendations
Regional Service Centers
  • Save time and resources of district staff and improve educator learning outcomes
  • Improve recruitment and retention by optimizing student teacher placements across districts
  • Identify and engage teacher leaders through expanded mentoring opportunities
Professional Schools, Trade Schools & Apprenticeships
  • Increase student satisfaction with mentorship matches
  • Expand opportunities to connect people in the profession
  • Improve training and learning experiences
Professional Associations & Alumni Organizations
  • Strengthen member engagement through mentoring experiences
  • Support members by providing more access to support networks
  • Improve retention in the field and enhance career satisfaction

The process was quick and easy, a few questions (many of which I had never considered as insight into my own thought processes), and I had a match.

Sherika K.
Teacher

What Can Torace Support?

Pipelines
Improve retention and cultivate pipelines into leadership
  • Activate mentoring as structured leadership opportunity
  • Amplify intrinsic rewards for experienced folks
  • Support clearer career trajectories
Engagement
Deepen stakeholder engagement to strengthen community
  • Create connections across sites and roles
  • Increase belonging with affinity groups
  • Leverage and honor stakeholder expertise
Reach and Scale
Extend the reach and scale of supports your organization offers
  • Get more from current resources and efforts
  • Provide professional development opportunities to remote or rural constituents
  • Increase inclusivity
Data
Use data on stakeholder needs and interests for decision making
  • Gain insight into career trajectory interests and vacancy forecasting
  • Better allocate resources for recruitment and retention activities
  • Plan professional development opportunities aligned with demand
Pathways
Develop new professional pathways and strengthen existing ones
  • Spark interest in pathways through connection
  • Support exploration and investigation with information
  • Build bridges between traditional and alternative pathways
Policy
Develop best practices and set policy grounded in research and data
  • Understand what works and learn continuously
  • Support policy implementation effectively
  • Make recommendations aligned with data-driven best practices

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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