the forward moving Teacher

The Problem: 

Traditional professional development opportunities often fail to instill long-lasting and sustained change in daily teaching practice.  The model of a professional talking to a room full of strangers often leaves teachers feeling frustrated, unfulfilled, and insulted.  Poorly designed professional development that does not meet the needs of the individual teachers is a waste of valuable time, money, and resources. Yet, we continually provide our teachers with this useless method. 

Sometimes new ideas are introduced and teachers run back to the classroom, eager and anxious to try a new strategy, but are met with failure and never try it again.  Sustained training, mentoring, and coaching is often absent in the wake of traditional PD, hence not having any effect on the success or learning gains for students.  New and developing teachers don't experience any change in their practice and thus leave the educational profession within five years. 

T3 seeks to change all that by offering a unique form of professional development specifically aimed at new and developing teachers or when districts implement a new core curriculum.

Our Approach:

Our approach is to work with a cohort group of teachers in a small professional learning community where sustained coaching and mentoring take place regularly.  Teachers will focus on designing standards-based and intentional lesson plans, that incorporate research-based literacy and instructional strategies in their classrooms.  They will have coaching provided on a sustained level, unparalleled by anything typically found in districts, even those with building-based coaches.