Poorly managed - Anonymous employee Teaching Lab Employee Review

Thank you for sharing your perspective and for acknowledging the passion and dedication of our amazing Teaching Lab team members. We believe in our team and support team members’ leadership and professional development in many important ways. Each team member has a Home Manager who collaborates with them throughout every year to set and pursue customized professional and personal development goals aligned with our Values and Competencies and the participatory strategic plan we created in community with our entire team. Team members receive targeted and full-organizational support - including monthly individual coaching through Boon Health and discretionary resources - to pursue their goals and identify and engage with leadership pathways within Teaching Lab to advance in their careers. We happily and gratefully acknowledge the ways our growth - in organizational size and impact - have pushed us to revisit our organizational structure in order to meet the evolving needs of our team, our partners, and the field. We are working hard to organize our work and collaboration in service of our educational equity mission and, in a spirit of distributed leadership, our Executive Team works and makes decisions in close partnership with leaders across the organization, soliciting, respecting, and being responsive to feedback offered through conversations, impact assessments, observations, and survey responses. All of this contributes to a strong feeling of engagement and agency across our team; this feeling was quantified in a recent Employee Engagement and Commitment survey which found that 85% of our team members believe their Home Manager appropriately involves them in decisions that impact their work and work environment.