Educators for Excellence Reviews

-Immense staff and leadership turnover that took a huge toll on morale and kept the work from progressing smoothly. Happened at national level as well as in chapters. -Many layers of management, with many bad or just new managers. -Poor alignment between national and chapter work streams. -Anti-union donors makes it hard to message a nuanced message about the necessity for union change, especially in the field. -Decision-making is still very much held at the Co-CEO level and this makes moving work forward quickly very difficult. -Performance management system is a joke. As is lack of transparency and alignment on titling and salary bands. People are either under-qualified (often at managing director level) or overqualified for their jobs (esp. among outreach directors). There is no consistent understanding/approach to promoting talent or creating new opportunities. -There are few "true-believers" of the union engagement part of the mission on staff. Many more believe in the teacher voice aspect, but this is honestly superficial at best. -Generally, staff spend a lot of time venting about the problems in the organization and this breeds a culture of negativity and even toxicity.

senior management does not prioritize staff input, consistent under-staffing results in overly high workloads and unrealistic expectations, culture of working late leads to poor work life balance but doesn't seem to improve efficiency, also keep in mind e4e's position on ed policy can be difficult to figure out during the job search process, read as much as you can to determine whether or not their politics are for you