Recruit, Retain & Develop More Successfully

Torace helps you collect data and learn more about what people want.
a mentee looking at a mentor in the background with spring student teaching screenshot of the Torace platform
Torace can help you learn more
Explore how Torace can help you learn more to improve teacher recruitment, retention, and development.
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 asdasd
  • 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 Managersasdasd
  • 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
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
Retention asdasdasdasdasdasdas
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
Professional Development
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
Teacher & Leader Pipelines
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
Continuous Learning & Improvement
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
Reach & Scale asdasdasdasdasdasdas
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 it work?
Create Event
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Enter basic information to create an event and upload email addresses of potential participants.
Invite Participants
02
Send email invitations. Participants accept and complete an event profile or decline.
Review Lists & Profiles
03
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
a screenshot of matches being created in a matching event on the Torace platform
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
a screenshot of the stages of a spring student teaching event from registration to preferences to matches on the Torace platform with mentors mentees and approvers
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
a screenshot of the event creation page on the Torace platform with the fields event name event type event description approximate start and end date of placement upload mentor list and upload mentee list
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
a screenshot of a spring student teaching event on the Torace platform with registration closed preferences open and matches waiting to be created and a list of mentor participants

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

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