The Future of Teaching Lab

As we begin SY2021-2022, Teaching Lab will continue to learn, adapt, innovate, and improve to reach our goal of fundamentally shifting the paradigm of teacher professional learning for educational equity. 

We will build new products and services through our best-in-class content design systems and will customize our curriculum-aligned professional learning services based on our partners’ goals and their enabling conditions to achieve our objectives in a sustainable, equity-driven, and user-centered way.

We will work to become a leader of virtual professional learning by continuing to create and deliver high-impact, evidence-based, and learning science-based PL in a virtual way, leveraging our LMS and other edtech tools. This includes launching open enrollment service offerings to expand reach and impact to teachers and students across the country, as well as developing systems to support efficient delivery of virtual services to scale partnerships in large districts.

Research is the way we do our work. Not only do we continue to integrate learning science and research about what works in professional learning and teaching into our model, we will continue to conduct innovative formative and evaluative research of our model to inform our own work and share insights with the field.

We will lay the groundwork for a future rigorous external impact evaluation of our model by entering into data sharing agreements to collect and analyze teacher and student data from school districts, deepening partnerships with key researchers and funders, carrying out small-scale testing and evaluations, and identifying opportunities for external research funding.

We will move toward full integration of racial equity in every aspect of our programs and operations. We will integrate a culturally-responsive teaching perspective into all of our products and services to ensure all students, especially those from historically marginalized groups, receive equitable and joyful instruction and achieve high expectations. Internally, we will build and sustain an anti-racist culture and build team practices and accountability to advance racial equity and antiracism by prioritizing learning through a racial equity lens, failing out loud, and revising our approach based on what we learn.