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Ready to take your CLASS^® interactions outside?

Join us for our upcoming webinar, Getting Outdoorsy with CLASS®: Going Beyond the Classroom Walls to Engage Children in Meaningful Interactions, on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

Outdoor play environments are essential for fostering authentic, effective interactions with children. In this webinar, we'll explore how nature-based play can enrich conversations and help children develop curiosity, confidence, and empathy. Using the CLASS^® domains and dimensions as a foundation, you'll learn how to create meaningful interactions in any outdoor setting.

What you'll learn:

• Understanding the "Why": Discover the benefits of outdoor play for children's healthy development.

• Practical Strategies: Learn how to extend classroom interactions into nature-based learning to promote deeper social-emotional development.

• Overcoming Barriers: Gain strategies to incorporate meaningful interactions with nature, regardless of your setting or location.

Register here: https://info.teachstone.com/getting-outdoorsy-with-class

Ready to take your CLASS^® interactions outside?

Join us for our upcoming webinar, Getting Outdoorsy with CLASS®: Going Beyond the Classroom Walls to Engage Children in Meaningful Interactions, on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

Outdoor play environments are essential for fostering authentic, effective interactions with children. In this webinar, we'll explore how nature-based play can enrich conversations and help children develop curiosity, confidence, and empathy. Using the CLASS^® domains and dimensions as a foundation, you'll learn how to create meaningful interactions in any outdoor setting.

What you'll learn:

• Understanding the "Why": Discover the benefits of outdoor play for children's healthy development.

• Practical Strategies: Learn how to extend classroom interactions into nature-based learning to promote deeper social-emotional development.

• Overcoming Barriers: Gain strategies to incorporate meaningful interactions with nature, regardless of your setting or location.

Register here: https://info.teachstone.com/getting-outdoorsy-with-class

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to say thank you for yesterday's webinar. I really enjoyed it. I noticed that some of the examples used when discussing levels of questioning and feedback reminded me of Bloom's Taxonomy ( like moving from basic recall to deeper analysis and creation), I thought that it was super interesting and I would like to ask you if it could be explicitly referenced as a tool to help observers and educators better understand the cognitive level of interactions between teachers and children? I thought that it could be a great way to deepen our understanding of the instructional support domain, especially when thinking about how teachers encourage higher order thinking. I love to hear your thoughts.

Ready to take your CLASS^® interactions outside?

Join us for our upcoming webinar, Getting Outdoorsy with CLASS®: Going Beyond the Classroom Walls to Engage Children in Meaningful Interactions, on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

Outdoor play environments are essential for fostering authentic, effective interactions with children. In this webinar, we'll explore how nature-based play can enrich conversations and help children develop curiosity, confidence, and empathy. Using the CLASS^® domains and dimensions as a foundation, you'll learn how to create meaningful interactions in any outdoor setting.

What you'll learn:

• Understanding the "Why": Discover the benefits of outdoor play for children's healthy development.

• Practical Strategies: Learn how to extend classroom interactions into nature-based learning to promote deeper social-emotional development.

• Overcoming Barriers: Gain strategies to incorporate meaningful interactions with nature, regardless of your setting or location.

Register here: https://info.teachstone.com/getting-outdoorsy-with-class

Thank you so much for joining the webinar and for sharing this thoughtful reflection! You're exactly right that there's a strong connection between the way Bloom's Taxonomy organizes levels of thinking and the kinds of questioning and feedback we look for in the Instructional Support domain. While the CLASS tool itself doesn't explicitly reference Bloom's, many educators and observers do find it helpful as a frame for thinking about the cognitive complexity of interactions-especially when teachers are moving children beyond recall into analysis, reasoning, and creation.

 I'd love to hear if others here have used Bloom's (or similar tools) alongside CLASS in their own work! 

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to say thank you for yesterday's webinar. I really enjoyed it. I noticed that some of the examples used when discussing levels of questioning and feedback reminded me of Bloom's Taxonomy ( like moving from basic recall to deeper analysis and creation), I thought that it was super interesting and I would like to ask you if it could be explicitly referenced as a tool to help observers and educators better understand the cognitive level of interactions between teachers and children? I thought that it could be a great way to deepen our understanding of the instructional support domain, especially when thinking about how teachers encourage higher order thinking. I love to hear your thoughts.

Ready to take your CLASS^® interactions outside?

Join us for our upcoming webinar, Getting Outdoorsy with CLASS®: Going Beyond the Classroom Walls to Engage Children in Meaningful Interactions, on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

Outdoor play environments are essential for fostering authentic, effective interactions with children. In this webinar, we'll explore how nature-based play can enrich conversations and help children develop curiosity, confidence, and empathy. Using the CLASS^® domains and dimensions as a foundation, you'll learn how to create meaningful interactions in any outdoor setting.

What you'll learn:

• Understanding the "Why": Discover the benefits of outdoor play for children's healthy development.

• Practical Strategies: Learn how to extend classroom interactions into nature-based learning to promote deeper social-emotional development.

• Overcoming Barriers: Gain strategies to incorporate meaningful interactions with nature, regardless of your setting or location.

Register here: https://info.teachstone.com/getting-outdoorsy-with-class