Teaching Lab

Dr. Sarah Johnson, CEO

Education

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Teaching Lab (TL) is a leader in the field of professional learning for teachers, and its goal is to get evidence into practice in a way that teachers can understand, embrace, and love. Their mission is to is to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning for educational equity.

Year Founded: 2016

Teaching Lab’s core professional learning model, coined Head, Heart, Habits, and Equity, supports teachers to learn evidence-based practices, builds teacher leadership, and supports systems to sustain strong professional learning systems over time. Under this model, Teaching Lab provides two main offerings: direct professional education for teachers, school leaders, and district leaders, and capacity-building supports at the district and state levels to create conditions necessary to make this kind of high-quality professional learning possible.

Teaching Lab’s programmatic reach has seen steady annual growth. Over the last five years, Teaching Lab has supported school systems in 27 states, impacting 10,000+ educators and 1 million students. Teaching Lab has also begun to track improvements in student learning. For instance, by analyzing summative state assessment data, they found that Teaching Lab teachers improved student learning at higher levels compared to teachers who did not receive Teaching Lab services. Additionally, across the nation, students improved their assignment proficiency rates by 12% in ELA and 11% in math.