Teaching Lab specializes in curriculum-based professional learning for all educators.
Teaching Lab was approved for the PLPG in August 2020.
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Our team
51+ facilitators/coaches
51-75% are non-white
Where we work
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Who we are
Teaching Lab aims to shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning (PL) for educational equity. They provide curriculum-based PL and direct-to-educator coaching, using their evidence-based model, coined Head, Heart, Habits, and Equity. Teaching Lab partners with schools and systems to adopt high-quality curriculum, develop sustainable systems of support for teachers and leaders, deliver introductory PL to teachers, and also deliver ongoing PL and coaching through Cycles of Inquiry. PL emphasizes support for diverse learners, multilingual learners, learning acceleration, and cultural responsiveness.
Types of support we offer
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- Adopting a math curriculum
- Adopting a science curriculum
- Adopting an ELA curriculum
- Initial implementation
- Ongoing implementation support for leaders
- Ongoing implementation support for teachers
- Collaborative Planning
- Educator Coaching
- Leadership Support for Coaching
Our curriculum expertise
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ELA
- Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) (2015)
- EL Education Grades 6-8 Language Arts Curriculum (Second Edition) (2019)
- EL Education K-5 Language Arts (2017)
- Imagine Learning EL Education K-5 Language Arts (2019)
- Imagine Learning Guidebooks 6-8 ELA (2018)
Math
- Eureka Math (2013-2014)
- Eureka Math (2015)
- Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics 6-8 Math (2019)
- Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics 9-12 (2019)
- Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics K-5 Math (2021)
- Kendall Hunt's Illustrative Mathematics 6-8 Math (2019)
- Kendall Hunt's Illustrative Mathematics K-5 (2021)
- Kendall Hunt's Illustrative Mathematics Traditional (2019)
- McGraw-Hill Illustrative Mathematics 6-8 Math (2020)
- Open Up Resources 6-8 Math (2017)
Types of districts that we have experience working with
- 10,000 to 50,000 students
- 2,500 to 10,000 students
- 50,000 to 100,000 students
- Charter
- Fewer than 2,500 students
- Greater than 20% of English language learners
- Greater than 20% of students with disability
- Greater than 60% of economically disadvantaged students
- Greater than 80% students of color
- More than 100,000 students
- Parochial
- Private
- Rural
- Suburban
- Traditional District
- Urban
This partner's approach and services
Sample scopes of work
Adoption
Initial implementation
Ongoing support for teachers
Ongoing support for leaders
How we address equity
Teaching Lab supports teachers with research-backed professional learning and coaching that help them improve outcomes for all students. Our PL and coaching aim to explicitly advance educational equity through culturally-responsive and sustaining education practices. We therefore support educators to interrogate their own identities and mindsets and how these show up to help or hinder students. Importantly, shifts in mindsets must be connected to shifts in equitable practice. For instance, PL and coaching support educators to hold high expectations for all students AND to enact instructional strategies that ensure all students meet grade-level expectations.
How we build district capacity
Teaching Lab offers a suite of customized implementation supports aligned to LEA needs. Services include HQIM-based professional learning and coaching that support educators to study HQIM and evidence, learn new practices, test strategies leveraging their HQIM, and measure and reflect on impact through student work and data analysis. Teaching Lab supports systems to sustain professional learning by developing the capacity of instructional leaders that sustain systems of continuous improvement and deliver professional learning aligned with HQIM. Teaching Lab also works with LEA stakeholder groups to develop strategy, implement year-long professional learning plans, PLC support, direct-to-teacher coaching, and capacity-building supports for local coaches.