Your Reach Expanded
Torace streamlines workflow, engages stakeholders, and facilitates program improvement with research-backed data.
Torace can help you do more
Explore larger scale and custom implementations below.
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
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- 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
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 exisitng 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 it work?
Create Event
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Enter basic information to create an event and upload email addresses of potential participants.
Invite Participants
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Send email invitations. Participants accept and complete an event profile or decline.
Review Lists & Profiles
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Track interest in your event. If screening, assigned approvers review profiles and make determinations.
Learn Preferences
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Enable preferences to allow participants to review options and star favorites.
Make Matches
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Experiment with pairings and make matches. When ready, send email notifications.
Interested in Learning More?
Key Features
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
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
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
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
Testimonials
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
