Passionate teachers & leaders - Middle School Science Teacher Achievement First Employee Review

Hi there, thanks for sharing your feedback! It’s heartening to hear how effective you have found the daily lesson resources. You named one of the impacts of the resources: more rigor for kids. But we also knew it would be a way to make teaching more sustainable for adults and over 90% of our teachers have found the resources to be helpful. No doubt the days are still long and there is a heavy workload for many teachers. It’s often taking too long (years) for teachers to achieve good balance, and even then it’s never easy. Some schools are doing a stronger job than others. Still - we’re convinced this is a key issue in our movement and are committed to making progress on this every year. It was lesson plans this year, and next year it’s a host of solutions (that our teachers helped us design). We hosted a Hackathon with network teachers and leaders to put our collective brains together to tackle this very issue. We created solutions on testing week design, sub-coverage, vacation-timing in Connecticut, and several other “1%” solutions. Bottom line: we’re not going to stop trying to make it easier (and not harder) for our teachers to stay in the classroom longer. -Tom Kaiser, Chief Talent Officer