All Things CLASS

Good afternoon,

I was conducting a CLASS observation and one of the specialists in our organization came into the classroom that I was in, and she started providing services to a child, interacting with the children and talking to the teachers. She stayed in the classroom for 10 or more minutes. Was I supposed to stop observing and start over? This interaction affected the scores because the children was more interested in the specialist than they were the teachers. What is the protocol for starting a CLASS observation over? Grant it, the specialist is a CLASS certified observer, and she was also a teacher in past years and had to go through being observed.