VC3 is the next evolution of Edthena’s award-winning video coaching platform. Specifically designed to provide educators with the high-quality support they both need and deserve, VC3 enables teachers and instructional coaches to collaborate more efficiently, gain deeper insights into instructional practice, and engage in more meaningful professional learning.
In the VC3 platform, teachers upload videos of their classroom instruction and share them with their colleagues who can add timestamped comments. VC3 helps streamline this process with a variety of tools, including automatic insights about students’ talking time and use of academic language. Plus, VC3 provides reflection questions customized to each video.
Using Edthena's video coaching technology, schools and districts have boosted teacher retention by more than 10 percent and significantly improved teacher competence and confidence.
Formats/platforms used:
VC3 is cross-platform compatible and runs on any device with a modern web browser.
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Problem solved:
With limited time during the school day and educators always on the move, it is easy for professional learning to take a back seat. VC3 solves this issue.
The platform’s flexibility and emphasis on mobility—with the ability for teachers to record, upload, and receive feedback from any device—means that meaningful professional development can happen when it’s needed, fitting into the demanding schedules of coaches and teachers.
The platform also helps accelerate reflection for both coaches and teachers by providing valuable AI-driven insights about a teacher’s instructional practice. These insights provide coaches with context before they even begin an observation, allowing them to more quickly and efficiently provide targeted feedback.
For teachers, seeing data about their instructional practices allows them to engage in more structured self-reflection before their coaching sessions. This allows for a richer discussion when they collaborate with their coach or peers.
Innovative platform features, such as automatic video summaries, give teachers extra time back in their schedules by accelerating once-manual tasks.
Overall, VC3 helps educators more effectively reflect on their practice and access the high-quality coaching they need to improve instruction so students thrive.
Grade/age range:
Any PK-12 school or district, as well as teacher education programs, can utilize VC3 to support teacher induction, coaching, teacher mentoring, professional learning communities (PLCs), and peer observation.
Core/supplemental/special needs/extracurricular/professional development?
Professional development
What subject, topic and/or standards is your product mapped to?
VC3 is designed to help educators across all levels and disciplines collaborate and share best practices that accelerate professional growth. Within the platform, schools can embed professional frameworks and standards to help customize their learning process.
Time needed:
VC3 is integrated seamlessly into the lessons without any extra effort or time. Teachers record their lessons from any device and set an automatic timer to stop recording without any additional input. The videos automatically upload for them.
Pricing model:
Most school buildings adopt VC3 for about $5,000 per year. Additionally, Edthena’s tools qualify for various state and federal funding programs, including Title I, Title II, and IDEA.
Additional services required?
After recording video of their classroom instruction, teachers can access VC3 from any internet-connected device—no additional hardware, apps, installs, or services are required.
All VC3 users receive in-app onboarding and training, as well as ongoing access to additional free resources and webinars from Edthena to ensure their success.
What makes VC3 unique?
VC3 draws upon Edthena’s 14 years of experience helping educators reflect, collaborate, and improve classroom instruction. Over that time, educators have added more than two million comments to nearly seven million minutes of classroom video. This experience has allowed Edthena to develop professional learning tools that put teachers at the forefront of their professional learning process.
VC3 allows teachers and coaches to collaborate seamlessly anytime, anywhere. By eliminating traditional time and distance constraints and allowing professional learners to connect on their terms, VC3 amplifies coaching capacity, helping teachers feel more supported and helping students receive improved instruction.
In VC3, coaches provide pinpoint, evidence-based feedback using time-stamped comments. On review teachers can jump directly to each moment. This allows teachers and coaches to deepen their reflections and improve instruction based on real data.
Teachers and coaches can also jumpstart video review using AI-driven tools. The Insights tab in VC3, for example, uses AI to provide: open-ended questions to help the observer determine what to look for in the video; a student-to-teacher talk time graph to support a deep-dive into student engagement, language development, and confidence; and, a visual representation of the most frequently used words within the lesson to get a sense of the academic language used.
Collectively, these tools help educators take a deeper dive into instructional practices happening within the classroom while saving them time.
Characteristics:
VC3 is designed to support teachers and coaches on the go. This includes a secure, mobile-optimized, and browser-based interface for recording and uploading videos of classroom teaching—with no apps or installs required—to streamline the coaching workflow from the start.
The platform’s dynamic layouts, commenting system, and design elements ensure educators always have easy access to the most relevant information as they move through the coaching process.
To support accessibility, the platform automatically provides closed captioning for all individuals talking in the videos with the highest word accuracy on the market today. The platform also uses symbols, in addition to colors, to convey meaning to support users who are colorblind.
Here’s what users are saying:
“With the help of Edthena, we are harnessing the power of video and innovative AI tools to level up our coaching practices. We love the automatic summaries and closed captioning—they provide us with valuable insights. Plus, the talk time graph makes it easy to set clear and measurable goals for improvement.”
– Amanda Maceo, professional development implementation strategist for Alief Independent School District
“Video reflection and facilitative coaching play a pivotal role in the professional development process for teacher residents. By leveraging Edthena's VC3 platform, our program empowers teacher residents to analyze and refine their instructional strategies, fostering self-efficacy through critical reflection and collaborative learning. This approach aligns with our goal of improving student outcomes and preparing educators to meet the diverse needs of their students.”
– Halley Maza, an instructor in the University at Buffalo Teacher Residency program
