Teacher Advisory Board

How do we ensure we address the most important challenges in education and meet the evolving and most pressing needs of educators and students? We ask teachers!

About

Teacher voice is the key element to informed, relevant, and impactful shifts in student learning. Teaching Lab’s Teaching Advisory Board (TAB) is a unique resource for obtaining insights from real educators, ensuring we have a deep understanding of the everyday challenges and opportunities faced in classrooms.

Our TAB serves as a foundational pillar of expertise and strategic counsel within Teaching Lab. Comprising of educators, coaches, principals, professors, and other seasoned professionals; the collective knowledge and insights of TAB are critical in helping us refine and better develop products and services that are “for teachers, by teachers.”

Ira Stillwell — Program Facilitator and TAB member

“TAB is a place I want to be in because it means that Teaching Lab is interested in prioritizing teacher voices.”

By leveraging the power of teacher voice through the TAB we:

Co-create

Engage end users (teachers, instructional leaders, other school based personnel) in the design and development process.

Validate

Assure quality assurance processes for our tech/AI products and professional learning materials, ensuring they reflect the real needs of teachers and effectively advance our shared goal of creating more equitable outcomes for all students.

Optimize

Support user-centered enhancements, modifications, and revisions to program offerings and resources and professional learning content and materials.

FY25 TAB Members

Members will review professional learning courses and offer feedback to ensure that Teaching Lab’s content is high-quality, practical, and will impact teaching and learning.