Great place to start your teaching career - Teacher Achievement First Employee Review

Thank you for your giving us such thoughtful feedback. Reading your review fired me up a bit when I read, “Every kid should and will learn. No excuses.” I share your appreciation for an environment where everyone truly wants to do what’s best for kids. In the same spirit, I appreciate your push as well. You hit on the fact that we “play as a team” to lead our schools and rely on our ability to hold the same expectations and use a school-wide approach in order to give kids a consistent experience. At the same time, we know that kids also need an authentic experience – in particular – they need to form authentic relationships with their teachers and see their unique personalities (just as teachers need to see the kids’ unique personalities). Doing both of those is really hard, and we’re not there yet in all of our schools. To make progress on this we are devoting more time and energy into our “real-time” coaching of teachers which rapidly improves the teacher’s instructional effectiveness AND their relationship building effectiveness. As you said it, we want teachers to be the best teacher they can be for their students. We are also launching a coordinated Student Investment priority across our schools for the 2018-2019 school year. This year we are spending time figuring out what aspects of student-teacher relationships are most effective and how we can make sure that teachers are empowered to be their unique selves while working as part of a consistent team for kids. Thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback. -Joey Roane, Director, Team School Culture