Mentor Matching Made Easy
The Torace platform simplifies matching logistics for field experience, clinical placements, and new teacher mentoring.
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Explore how Torace can support your programs and give your students a better learning experience.
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
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- 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
What can Torace support?
Educator Preparation Programs
- 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
Apprenticeship & Residency Programs
- 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
Principal Certification Programs
- Increase candidate satisfaction with mentorship matches
- Expand opportunities to connect people in the profession
- Improve training and learning experiences
- Grow your mentor pool
New Teacher Induction & Mentoring
- Learn what new teachers want and need to grow
- Easily recruit and screen mentors
- Improve retention in the field
- Enhance career satisfaction
Teacher Development
- Learn teachers’ strengths and growth areas
- Better understand what teachers want from professional development
- Match teachers to mentors or professional development modules
School Counseling Programs
- 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 it work?
Create Event
01
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
04
Enable preferences to allow participants to review options and star favorites.
Make Matches
05
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
