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Teaching Lab

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Teaching Lab reviews

2.9

39% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

33% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Work/Life balance

2.5

Culture & values

2.5

Diversity & inclusion

2.4

Senior management

2.4

Career opportunities

Teaching Lab has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Teaching Lab employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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25 reviews
1.0
Sep 13, 2022

Run Black Women!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The organization provides a flexible work environment and perks such as monthly technology reimbursements.

Cons

Be prepared for textbook examples of gaslighting. The culture of the Teaching Lab organization is extremely toxic. Gaslighting means you're being made to doubt your own feelings, thoughts, intuition, and judgment. In my multi-year long tenure at Teaching Lab, there is a palatable lack of trust between the executive team and the rest of the organization. While simultaneously lauding employees for being leaders in their respective fields, Teaching Lab puts little stock in what their employees can bring to the organization relying mostly on outward appearances of “ equity”. Additionally, speak up at your own risk. Speaking up about the organization and highlighting room for improvement will put your job in jeopardy. I and many of my colleagues were so saddened to see this play out over and over again. Openly asking for feedback, the executive team makes the majority if not all of their decisions without consulting folks across the organization who may be directly influenced or impacted by their decisions. The executive team expresses the desire to become an anti-racist organization and asserts that the organization is on a "journey" to become anti-racist while Black women employees leave in droves. If you were dazzled by the anti-racist rhetoric on the website don’t feel bad, they are good at talking the talk, but as far as walking the walk, I suggest you walk elsewhere. I caution anyone who decides to pursue a career at this organization to do your research. Take the time to reach out to current and former employees to inform your decision as I personally wouldn't recommend anyone I know to join this organization.

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Teaching Lab Response
3y
Thank you for acknowledging the ways we strive to provide the resources necessary for our team members to work in pursuit of educational equity and for sharing your perspective. At Teaching Lab, we value and strive to incorporate the perspectives and insights of our community members into the work we do in service of our commitments to racial justice and organizational development. We know that the work of learning how to live these commitments is never ending and yet we take seriously our responsibility to always be moving forward on our journey toward racial justice and liberation. At Teaching Lab, the next phase of this journey takes the shape of an organization-wide, community-driven racial justice initiative led by our People & Culture team. You can learn more about the principles and commitments to racial justice that guide our internal and external work here on our Teaching Lab website: https://www.teachinglab.org/equitycommitment. We are excited about the ways these next steps in our journey will allow us to embed our commitment to racial justice and our respect for the identities and humanity of our team members more fully into our work with our internal teams at Teaching Lab and our partners in the broader educational justice community.
1.0
Apr 4, 2022

Do your research before applying.

Executive assistant
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Pros

The organization is made up of some really great and truly brilliant people who believe in the working Teaching Lab is doing. The staff are truly mission oriented and embody that in everything they do.

Cons

There’s a big culture of micromanagement stemming from the c-suite, which means that everyone at every level (directors and above included) are often undermined in some really public, overt ways. This also means that innovation and decision making authority lives solely with the three chiefs and no one else, which you can see really discourages people at all levels of the org (myself included). There’s the illusion of distributive leadership (they’ve fleshed out middle management in the last year) but the issues still persist. Team members talk directly to the c-suite about issues instead of their directors, nearly every external meeting has to include a chief or will be rescheduled, and proposals, emails, etc. are screened by one if not more chiefs as well, and there’s only three total members of our c-suite. It’s too much authority over ever single thing that happens at the organization, and it makes a very hectic portfolio of projects even more chaotic and unorganized. An example of how the deep the micromanagement issue is: after no one responded to my resignation letter for four days, they finally provided an exit checklist. They had the audacity to include “talking points” that I could use to discuss my parting with my colleagues. One line included the verbiage “I enjoyed my time at Teaching Lab,” even though no one ever even asked me why I was leaving…it was so odd. Additionally, the organization is still rooted in startup-style operations. They have to contract a lot of their work out (HR and accounting especially) so there aren’t people to go to about some really major things that are affecting the staff. It’s a growing organization but they don’t operate like a true business just yet.

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Teaching Lab Response
3y
Thank you for sharing your perspective and acknowledging the commitment and brilliance of our amazing team members. At Teaching Lab, we value and strive to incorporate the perspectives and insights of our community members into the work we do in service of our organizational development. We are excited about the ways our team is growing to meet the demand from educators across the country for transformational professional learning. At Teaching Lab, we are committed to meeting the needs of our team members and our partners as we grow. We have recently reimagined the way we work as part of a flexible, project-team structure. It's exciting to see our team members - at every level of the organization - leading the work of being responsive to the unique needs and aspirations of individual communities as we serve as we design and deliver our professional learning supports. This incredible team work is enabled not by external providers as you mention in your post but by the in-house HR supports provided by our growing People & Culture team. This team is envisioning and implementing a values-aligned approach, rooted in the pursuit of racial justice, to foster and support our cultural and organizational development at Teaching Lab.
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