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

With more accurate numbers from closed projects, in Q2 we nearly met our FY23 goal, reaching 9,537 educators. At 553,955 students reached, we need to grow to impact at least 146,045 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.

In Q2, we increased the percentage of teachers demonstrating equitable mindsets from 62% to 67%; 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.

In Q2, we increased the percentage of teachers implementing CRSE practices from 58% to 63%; we need to grow to 70% 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

In Q2, we increased the percentage of teachers demonstrating content knowledge from 49% to 55%; 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

In Q2, we increased the percentage of teachers who have made improvements in their teacher practice from 51% to 55%; we need to grow to 61% making improvements in teacher practice in the remainder of FY23.

Goal 4: Generate Revenue

Goal: Earned revenue: $6M

At $6.087M, we’ve increased our earned revenue from $5.199M in Q1, exceeding our FY23 revenue goal.

Goal: Philanthropy for internal operations: $6.5M

We generated $5.268M in philanthropy for programmatic delivery in Q2, down from $5.585M in Q1, but exceeding our FY23 goal.

Goal: Philanthropy for programmatic delivery: $2M

In Q2, we increased our philanthropy for internal operations to $4.293M; we need to generate $2.207M in the remainder of FY23.

Goal: Total Programmatic Delivery Revenue: $8M

We have generated $10.706M in programmatic revenue in Q2, down slightly from $10.785M, but exceeding our FY23 goal.

Goal: Total Revenue: $14.5M

We increased our overall revenue from $13.183M in Q1 to $15.684M in Q2, exceeding our FY23 total revenue goal.

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 Q2 with 92% of all participants saying facilitators are fully prepared for the session (n=1,025) and 92% of all participants saying coaches are fully prepared for the session (n=189).

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

We exceeded this goal in Q2 with 93% of all participants saying facilitators effectively build a safe learning environment (n=1,025) and 94% of all participants saying coaches effectively build a safe learning environment (n=189).

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

We exceeded this goal in Q2 with 92% of all participants saying facilitators made adjustments based on participants’ needs (n=1,025) and 91% of all participants saying coaches made adjustments based on participants’ needs (n = 189).

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

Innovative Model: K-2 Literacy Micro PLs

How and what data is collected:
- Teacher NPS >50
- Other educator NPS >50
- 80% of participants say about facilitators/coaches: “They seemed fully prepared for the session; They effectively built a safe learning community; They made adjustments based on participants’ needs”
Data collection timeline: Q3 through Q4
Q2 Progress: Suite of Micro PLs being developed, scheduled to be used in the field in Q3.
For the goal: 80% of innovations are on track to generate revenue and a return on investment in FY25

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

Innovative Models: K-2 Literacy Micro PLs

How is data collected: # of Micro PLs developed and delivered at cost
Data collection timeline: Q3 to end of year
Q2 Data: 25 Micro PLs available by end of Q3; additional developed in Q4 as needed

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

We increased the percentage of Teaching Lab team members who say they can explain the flexible project team structure from 73% in Q1 to 74% in Q2; we need to increase this percentage to 80% to meet our FY23 goal.

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.”

In Q2, a smaller percentage of Teaching Lab team members say the flexible team structure is an improvement over how we previously organized our work; going from 49% in Q1 to 40% in Q2. We will need to grow this percentage from 40% to 80% to meet our FY23 goal.

Goal 10: Research becomes the way we do our work

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

In Q2, 86% of our partnerships are collecting data for our Educator Surveys. This percentage will need to increase to 90% to meet our FY23 goal.

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

This data will be available in Q3.

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

In Q2, our partnership teams attended enabling conditions workshops and completed enabling conditions rubrics. We will track whether partners increased by 1 rating category at the end of the year.

Goal 12: Continue to become an antiracist organization

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

In Q2, we increased the percentage of team members who say anti-racism is embedded into their work at Teaching Lab from 62% to 77%; we need to reach 80% to reach our FY23 goal.

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

In Q2 we exceeded our goal with 83% of Teaching Lab team members saying they understand Teaching Lab’s anti-racism principles and how we live them as opposed to 73% in Q1.

Goal: “Staff NPS >40”

In Q2 we exceeded our staff NPS goal with an NPS of 52.

Goal 13: Maintain financial sustainability

Goal: 80% of invoices are collected within 60 days

In Q2 95% of invoices were collected within 60 days, falling from 100% in Q1, but exceeding our goal of 80%.

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

In Q2 Teaching Lab’s Earned Revenue/philanthropy ratio remained at 40%/60%, meeting our goal.

Goal: Profit margin remains at least 6%

In Q2 Teaching Lab’s profit margin was 25% falling from 51% in Q1, but exceeding our goal of 6%.

Goal: 4-6 month cash reserve

In Q2 Teaching Lab had a 6.03 month cash reserve, continuing to exceed our goal of 4-6 months.

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

In Q2 Teaching Lab had an operational overhead cost of 25%, nearly meeting our goal of less than 25%.

Goal 14: Online courses support partnership development

Goal: 80% of each open enrollment course is booked with participants

In Q2, our three Open Enrollment courses are, on average, 17% filled; we will need to grow enrollment to an average of 80% across courses to meet our FY23 goal.

Courses generate an NPS of 50

In Q2, our course NPS is 32; we will need to grow the NPS to 50 to meet our FY23 goal.

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”

We have not yet executed a resource drop. We will need to execute 3 large resource drops to meet our FY23 goal.

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

In Q2, we exceeded our FY23 goal with some organizational systems, improving our Q1 average from 73% to 81% 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 Q2, one of our business opportunities without movement was tracked within 30 days; 8 opportunities without movement were tracked within 60 days, and 5 opportunities without movement were tracked within 90 days.

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

In Q2, 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 Q2, we increased the percentage of Teaching Lab team members who say that they have the data or information they need to do their work right from 70% to 89%, nearly meeting our FY23 goal.

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

80% of projects engage in project report card conversations

In Q2, we exceeded our FY23 goal with 94% of active employees engaging in the Phase 2: Fall Check-in.

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

In Q2, we nearly met our FY23 goal with 94% of active employees engaging in the Phase 2: Fall Check-in.

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

In Q2, 76% 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.