Classroom Mosaic vs LessonNote

Classroom Mosaic is the leading platform for classroom observations, walkthroughs, learning walks, teacher evaluations, and more. Join 30,000+ educators. The Classroom Mosaic Platform helps instruction leaders improve instructional practice by transforming observation data into actionable insights for monitoring educator growth and targeted professional development. With Classroom Mosaic, you can: - Accelerate Educator Growth - Strengthen School Culture - Increase Teacher Retention WALKTHROUGHS & LEARNING WALKS & OBSERVATIONS Classroom observations are simple and effective in Classroom Mosaic. You can create forms with rubrics, scripting notes, photos, and more. During an observation, you can navigate your form quickly and your data saves automatically. After completing an observation, your feedback instantly goes to the teacher and they can start a dialogue with you right from their inbox. Then you can use the dashboards and reports to identify trends, spot strengths and weaknesses, and understand instructional practice by combining all observations from your school or district. TEACHER EVALUATION The Classroom Mosaic platform makes teacher evaluation straightforward and efficient. All tasks, documents, and forms are in one spot for each of your evaluations. Along the way, helpful reminders are automatically sent to you and your teachers to complete items on time. You can easily stay on top of what you need to do and even add eSignatures when the time comes. With our evaluation tools, you can focus on coaching and don’t have to worry about compliance. REPORTING The dashboards and reports transform your data into something you can understand and use. All data captured is automatically aggregated and reported based on your forms. You can drill deep into your observation data to understand trends, identify strengths and weaknesses, and implement continuous improvement practices. ABOUT US We build helpful tools for instructional leaders. Our goal is to make you more efficient and effective. Over the last decade, our platform has helped tens of thousands of educators capture over 5 million minutes of instructional time. We’ve worked with individual schools to districts with more than 100,000 students. Sign up for a demo to learn more.

LessonNote is an innovative classroom observation tool for documenting the flow of a lesson and its impact on students. Capture both quantitative and qualitative data: • Track who is talking to whom, when, and for how long. • Jot handwritten, time-stamped notes about what is being said and what students are doing. • Take photos of student work. • Capture time spent in different modalities: whole-class, individual work, group work. Begin by creating a seating chart with icons representing the teacher, students, groups, and display areas such as blackboards or projection screens. Record observations by selecting an icon, or linking two icons for a note about an interaction. Take photos of student work. After a lesson, efficiently review your data for a student-focused conversation that improves teaching and learning. A small seating chart shows exactly who or what a note is about, so you don't need to know the names of the students. A timeline shows how much time was spent in whole-class lecture or discussion, individual work time, and group work time. LessonNote helps you create a fact-based and non-judgemental record of the lesson and its impact on students. LessonNote is ideal for peer observation, coaching, instructional rounds, and of course for Lesson Study. For administrators, LessonNote improves on simple checklists or rating scales by helping document how lessons affect students—which is, ultimately, what teaching is all about. Work with your colleagues and use LessonNote to improve teaching and learning! Read the Terms of Service at: https://LSAlliance.org/LessonNote/terms-of-service.html.