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TORACE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS
 
 
 
 

Do More with What You Have

In an era of teacher shortages and tight budgets, Torace helps districts maximize the impact of every placement by aligning them to real hiring needs, all while reducing churn and developing tomorrow’s leaders today.

Male mentor teacher coaching a young female teacher resident in a teacher apprenticeship program.

Who Can Use Torace?

Human Resource Professionals

  • Plan career pipeline and development initiatives with actionable insights
  • Use collected data to inform recruitment, development, and retention activities
  • Support strategic talent pipeline initiatives sustainably with easy to implement tools
  • Improve employee engagement and retention

Professional Learning Leads 

  • Boost the effectiveness of your mentorship and directed professional development activities
  • Unlock the ability of staff to help one another through low-lift, high-impact mentoring programs
  • Improve teacher confidence and performance with content and skill-focused programs

School Leader Managers

  • Utilize data and tools designed to support the development of school leaders
  • Empower school leaders to build and manage their leadership teams
  • Create peer-to-peer learning opportunities across sites

Research & Evaluation Analysts

  • Access stable, ready-to-analyze datasets to provide actionable recommendations
  • Improve insight into staff satisfaction and employee engagement
  • Enhance understanding of career trajectory and vacancy forecasting

Torace is a lifesaver! I placed more than 70 teachers using the platform in one year, and the detailed information about cooperating teachers and mentees enabled more thoughtful, intentional matches. The better the match, the better the experience, and the more likely the teacher will be hired once certified.

Peg Meyers
Director of Human Resources
Chula Vista School District

What Can Torace Support?

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Improve recruitment of teachers, school leaders, and classified staff
  • Optimize student teacher placements across sites
  • Better allocate resources for recruitment activities
  • Support low-touch mentorship activities for certified and classified staff to build capacity for new roles
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Deepen engagement and improve retention
  • Identify and engage teacher leaders through expanded opportunities
  • Connect employees across sites and roles
  • Support clearer career trajectories to keep talented staff within your organization
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Develop new professional learning opportunities and strengthen existing ones
  • Improve training and learning experiences
  • Plan professional development opportunities aligned with demand
  • Leverage the strengths of current staff through targeted, short-duration mentorship
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Cultivate pipelines in alignment with strategic needs and forecasted vacancies
  • Activate graduated mentoring as a structured leadership pathway
  • Understand and support desired career trajectories
  • Provide job-embedded opportunities for staff to experience and develop new skills
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Develop best practices and plans grounded in research and data
  • Understand what works
  • Learn continuously
  • Make recommendations based on data
  • Create plans that align with strategic objectives and support implementation
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Extend the reach, scale, and sustainability of programming
  • Get more from current resources and efforts
  • Free up staff time to focus on other priorities
  • Reduce opportunity cost of piloting mentorship related initiatives

How Does Torace Work?

In just 5 easy steps, maximize the impact of every placement!
  • 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

Featured Posts

 

Making the most district
FROM THE FIELD
 
Making the Most of Student Teaching

Check out research from CALDER that shows that better aligned matches, make better teachers.

Expanding apprenticeships district
INSIGHTS
 
Expanding the Apprenticeship Model from Hire to Retire

Apprenticeships in teaching have become a popular solution to combat the teacher shortage. How can we use that hiring model to continue training our teachers?

4 findings from the field homepage
FROM THE FIELD
 
4 Findings from the Field About Retention

After surveying human resources and school personnel experts, here are 4 high-level learnings about what experts are doing to retain teacher.