Why:

At Teaching Lab, we set annual organizational goals to ensure we’re strategically and effectively pursuing our mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of professional learning for educational equity. Our organizational goals are a statement of our priorities and our values, so it’s important that, as a team, we keep them close to our hearts and our work. It’s also important that we hold ourselves accountable for making progress toward them or adjusting course if our progress has stalled. To that end, with the help of leaders across our organization, we collect data quarterly about our progress toward our annual organizational goals. In a spirit of transparency and good stewardship, we commit to sharing the state of our progress regularly with our Teaching Lab community and with the stakeholders and communities with whom we collaborate in the work of educational justice.

What:

At Teaching Lab, we measure our goals through different inputs - financial data, participant feedback, and qualitative marketing and communications progress - and this results in a variety of forms of data. The variety of data demands that, for this report, we create a variety of visuals that we hope can sufficiently communicate our goals and our progress. The data displayed in the following data visualizations are an attempt at both enumerating and envisioning the change our organization seeks to achieve. In coordination with teams across Teaching Lab, we have leveraged our ongoing tracking of organizational goals to produce the following quarterly report. As we built the report, we’ve measured all that we can quantitatively and translated that data to visuals, adding narrative where quantitative measurement is not indicated.

How:

This layered visualization and narrative description of our progress toward our organizational goals is organized by organizational goal area. Every goal area’s data visualization or narrative is unique based upon the progress metrics and measurements that are most appropriate to that goal. For every goal, in addition to providing progress data, the functional leader for that goal area has offered their assessment of whether or not we are on track to reaching the goal before the end of the fiscal year.

Taken individually, the goal area visualizations enable targeted exploration of our progress in different functional areas. Taken together, the measurement of these goals and progress measurements can provide an overall assessment of Teaching Lab’s progress meeting the annual organizational goals that bring us closer to our mission of fundamentally shifting the paradigm of professional learning for educational equity.

Goal 1: Expand Reach

Goal: 10,000 educators reached, serving over 700,000 students

We have exceeded our reach goal in Q1 by reaching 10, 719 educators; at 648,725 students reached, we need to grow to impact at least 51,275 more students in the remainder of FY23.

Goal 2: Advance Educational Equity

Goal: 10% improvement between beginning and end of year in teacher equitable mindsets.

Currently 62% of teachers demonstrate equitable mindsets; we need to grow to 72% demonstrating those mindsets in the remainder of FY23 to meet our goal.

Goal: 10% improvement between beginning and end of year in CRSE practices.

Currently 79% of teachers are implementing CRSE practices; we need to grow to 89% of teachers implementing them in the remainder of FY23 to meet our goal.

Goal 3: Increase Teacher and Student Learning

Goal: 10% improvement between beginning and end of year in teacher content knowledge

Currently, 49% of teachers demonstrate content knowledge; we need to grow to 59% demonstrating content knowledge in the remainder of FY23.

Goal: 10% improvement between beginning and end of year in teacher practice

Currently, 58% of teachers have made improvements in teacher practice; we need to grow to 68% making improvements in teacher practice in the remainder of FY23.

Goal 4: Generate Revenue

Goal: Earned revenue: $6M

At $5.99M, we’ve nearly met our FY23 revenue goal.

Goal: Philanthropy for internal operations: $6.5M

We generated $2.93M in philanthropy in our first quarter; to meet our goal, we need to generate an additional $1.74M in the remainder of FY23.

Goal: Philanthropy for programmatic delivery: $2M

We have exceeded our goal in our first quarter, generating $5.585M philanthropy for programmatic delivery in FY23.

Goal: Total Revenue: $14.5M

We have nearly met our goal in our first quarter, generating $13.183M in FY23.

Goal: Total Programmatic Delivery Revenue: $8M

We have exceeded our goal in our first quarter, generating $10.785M in revenue in FY23.

Goal 5: Be Responsive to Educators

Goal 6: Scale Front-line Delivery (facilitator/coach) Quality

Goal: >80% of participants say about facilitators/coaches: “They seemed fully prepared for the session.”

We exceeded this goal in our first quarter with 94% of all participants saying facilitators are fully prepared for the session (n=461) and 97.22% of all participants saying coaches are fully prepared for the session (n=37).

Goal: >80% of participants say about facilitators/coaches: “They effectively built a safe learning community.”

We exceeded this goal in our first quarter with 94% of all participants saying facilitators effectively build a safe learning environment (n=461) and 94.44% of all participants saying coaches effectively build a safe learning environment (n=37).

Goal: >80% of participants say about facilitators/coaches: “They made adjustments based on participants’ needs.”

We exceeded this goal in our first quarter with 92% of all participants saying facilitators made adjustments based on participants’ needs (n=461) and 94% of all participants saying coaches made adjustments based on participants’ needs (n = 37).

Goal 7: Be a Learning Organization

100% of revisions to existing products/services and design/innovation of new products/services are done with user feedback

Teaching Lab maintains cost of services at or below $1,500/teacher/year

Teaching Lab innovates new models that improve impact and cost-effectiveness and generate an ROI by Year 3 of initial innovation investment

For our Writing Pathways and Adaptive PL innovations, TL team leaders will track these goals in collaboration with pilot teacher participants. 

For the Writing Pathway, this tracking begins with BOY surveys - which are administered as teachers join the Writing Pathway pilot; growth data will be available after EOY surveys are administered in May 2023.

An adoptive Adaptive PL pilot cohort launches 10/26 with a goal of starting with at least 15 participants.

As this is year one of the initial innovation investment, Year 3 ROI data is not yet available.

Goal 8: Innovate to Improve the Model

Goal: 80% of innovations pursued in FY23 have indicators of client satisfaction and impact by the end of the year

Goal: 80% of innovations are on track to generate revenue and a return on investment in FY25

For our Writing Pathways and Adaptive PL innovations, TL team leaders will track these goals in collaboration with pilot teacher participants. 

For the Writing Pathway, this tracking begins with BOY surveys - which are administered as teachers join the Writing Pathway pilot; growth data will be available after EOY surveys are administered in May 2023.

An adoptive Adaptive PL pilot cohort launches 10/26 with a goal of starting with at least 15 participants.

As the innovations are early in implementation, Year 5 revenue and ROI data is not available.

Goal 9: Create a flexible and partnership-driven team structure

Goal: By the end of FY23, >80% of Teaching Lab team members can explain the flexible project team structure

73% of Teaching Lab team members say they can explain the flexible project team structure; we need to grow to 80%, which represents approximately 4 more team members saying they can explain the structure.

Goal: By the end of FY23, >80% of Teaching Lab team members say, “the flexible project team structure is an improvement over how we previously organized our work.”

49% of Teaching Lab team members say the flexible team structure is an improvement over how we previously organized our work; we need to grow to 80%, which represents approximately 17 more team members saying the structure is an improvement.

Goal 10: Research becomes the way we do our work

Goal: 90% of partnerships collect and analyze Educator Surveys 2x/ year

We exceeded this goal in our first quarter with 100% of partnerships collecting data for our Educator Surveys.

Goal: 90% of partnerships collect and analyze student data and teacher practice data relevant to their SOW and aligned to the FY23 evaluation plan.

We have not collected data on this goal in our first quarter.

Goal 11: Create and sustain enabling conditions

Goal: At the end of the year, 80% of partners increase by at least 1 rating category on at least 1 enabling condition on the PL Enabling Conditions scorecard

No data for this goal is available, the data will be available at the end of Q2 and Q4.

Goal 12: Continue to become an antiracist organization

Goal: 80% of staff members say anti-racism is embedded into my work at Teaching Lab

62% of team members say anti-racism is embedded into their work at Teaching Lab; we need to reach >80% of team members saying that, representing approximately at least 10 additional Teaching Lab members expressing their belief that anti-racism is embedded in their work.

Goal: 80% of staff members say they understand Teaching Lab’s anti-racism principles and how we live them in our partnership design and service

73% of team members say they understand Teaching Lab’s anti-racism principles and how we live them; we need to reach >80%, representing approximately 4 additional team members expressing their understanding.

Goal: “Staff NPS >40”

Our first quarter staff NPS is 30; we need to reach an NPS of >40, representing approximately five or more team members offering 9 or 10 ratings.

Goal 13: Maintain financial sustainability

Goal: 80% of invoices are collected within 60 days

We exceeded this goal, collecting 100% of our quarter one invoices in 60 days.

Goal: Earned Revenue/philanthropy ratio does not fall below 40%/60%

We met this goal in our first quarter with a ratio of 40%/60% .

Goal: Profit margin remains at least 6%

We have considerably exceeded this goal: Teaching Lab’s first quarter profit margin is 51%.

Goal: 4-6 month cash reserve

We met this goal in our first quarter with a 6.23 month cash reserve.

Goal: Operational overhead cost (administrative and fundraising) is <25%

Operational overhead data is not available but will be generated later in FY23 using project log data.

Goal 14: Online courses support partnership development

Goal: 80% of each open enrollment course is booked with participants Courses generate an NPS of 50

We have not yet enrolled participants in our open enrollment courses.

Goal 15: Influence the field

Goal: “Teaching Lab engages in at least three (3)”large resource drops” w/ full communications plan focused on: CRSE, Foundational Literacy (k-8), 6-8 Math, and/or innovative PL (including the use of technology) and resources generate >1,000 downloads”

The Marketing & Communications team has focused in their first quarter on collecting resources for Q2, Q3 and Q4 resource drops.

Goal 16: Operate efficiently and equitably

Goal: 80% of users say that organizational systems (monday.com, Canvas, Justworks, etc) increased their organizational collaboration, efficiency, or transparency

We met our goal with some organizational systems in our first quarter and posted an average of 73% of team members across tools saying the tools increased their collaboration, efficiency or transparency.

The average broken out across tools is as follows:

• Monday.com: 78%

• Justworks: 72%

• Expensify: 89%

• Canvas: 52%.

Goal: 100% of leads and clients are tracked in the CRM, following business rules

In our first quarter, 80% of our business opportunities without movement are tracked within 30 days; 4% of our opportunities without movement are tracked within 60 days, and 16% of our opportunities without movement are tracked within 90 days.

Goal: 100% of earned revenue and philanthropic pipeline data is updated, usable and accurate by the end of each month

100% of inputted earned revenue and philanthropic pipeline data is updated, usable and accurate by the end of each month; additionally, closed contracts at 100% are now updated by in the Monday board upon receipt.

Goal: 90% of FTEs and PTEs agree that they “have the data or information I need to do my work right”

In the first quarter, 70% of our FTEs and PTEs say that they have the data or information they need to do their work right; we need to grow by 20% to meet this goal in FY23, representing approximately 11 additional employees agreeing they have the data or information they need to do their work right.

Goal 17: Team members receive meaningful feedback for growth throughout the year

Goal: 80% of FTEs and PTEs who engage in the PDS report, at each phase, that the process is clear and/or valuable

Currently, 79% of Teaching Lab staff expressed that they receive meaningful feedback for growth throughout the year across the metrics that measure this sentiment, nearly meeting our FY23 goal in our first quarter.