A Train Wreck - Anonymous employee Teaching Lab Employee Review

Thank you for acknowledging the talent and commitment of our incredible team here at Teaching Lab. We understand all of the team members you appropriately laud in your review to be leaders, and we work hard to support their distributed leadership with professional development and operational support. We are proud of the experience - within education and beyond it - our diverse and expert team brings to their work. Our mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning for equity relies on their expertise and agency. Each team member at Teaching Lab has a Home Manager who collaborates with them to set and pursue customized professional and personal development goals, providing coaching that is aligned with our Values and Competencies. Contrary to your perception, there is a widespread belief in the efficacy of this leadership structure and in personal agency at Teaching Lab: a recent Employee Engagement and Commitment survey found that 85% of our team members believe their Home Manager appropriately involves them in decisions that impact their work and work environment. In addition to values-based coaching from their Home Manager, team members partake in full-organization learning experiences and receive monthly individual coaching through Boon Health as well as discretionary resources to help them chart and pursue career advancement pathways within Teaching Lab.