2021 Affiliate CLASS® Trainer Updates

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About the Upgrade

Affiliate CLASS Trainers now have access to Version 4 of the Pre-K CLASS Observation Training. This upgrade ensures that you have the most up-to-date and best training possible for your participants! Version 4 includes new videos, activity revisions, and more.

We’re also launching 4 new Spanish-language trainings to affiliates, translations of Pre-K CLASS Observation training and the Introduction to the CLASS Tool training at the Infant, Toddler, and Pre-K age levels. By offering these new Spanish trainings, we can broaden the reach of CLASS and ensure more children have access to high-quality teaching.

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How to Upgrade

Timeline

Affiliates can begin upgrading on 3/2. There is no cost for upgrading to Version 4. The cost is included in your annual recertification fee. Beginning on 4/20, all Pre-K Observation trainings will receive Version 4 participant materials.

Version 3 materials will continue to ship for all trainings before 4/20 even if the trainer has completed the Version 4 onboarding. All trainings scheduled after 4/20 will receive Version 4 materials.

If your next planned training does not take place until later in the year, you can wait until closer to that time to complete the upgrade process. Please be sure to start the process a month prior to your desired training date to allow time for materials to ship and for you to complete the upgrade.

Process

Pre-K CLASS® Observation Training

In order to upgrade, visit this form and request the upgrade materials. Once you request the materials you’ll be enrolled in the online onboarding training within 72 hours.

Affiliate Spanish Introduction to the CLASS® Tool

If you are upgrading to deliver Affiliate Spanish Introduction to the CLASS Tool trainings, go here. You will find links to the webinars and materials.

Affiliate CLASS Trainer Resource Village

We’re excited to invite you to a new online space for trainers, the Affiliate CLASS Trainer Resource Village!

The Village is an online space where trainers can access training materials, stream videos live during training, take a trainer recertification practice test, and find a wide range of videos, online courses, and printable resources. Trainers can access the Village by clicking the Online Courses tile on their myTeachstone dashboard. It is now available to all affiliate trainers with active certifications.

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