Equitable practice is always at the core.
Our Approach
TeachingWorks embraces the complexities of teaching and learning by developing immersive experiences that enable educators to engage deeply with practice. Our team is deeply committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We work at the intersection of teaching and learning, research, and advocacy.
Professional Learning Opportunities
TeachingWorks creates programs and workshops that intertwine a deliberate focus on teaching practice, academic subject matter, and equity for new and practicing teachers.
Research-Based Resources
TeachingWorks develops and shares resources, including curriculum materials, for supporting new and practicing teachers.
Customized Support
TeachingWorks partners with educators in PK–12 schools and teacher preparation programs to support specific professional learning needs. Our menu of customizable partnerships can take shape at the classroom, school, district, or program level.
Our Impact
More than 10 years ago, TeachingWorks became the first organization in the U.S. to propose a set of high-leverage practices on which to center initial teacher preparation.
Since then, we’ve been at the forefront of the movement to recenter teacher education in practice, and have helped transform the way teachers are prepared in countless preparation programs across the country and world. Our immersive professional learning opportunities and library of curriculum resources provide teacher educators with rare opportunities to envision and implement a better way to train teachers.
We simultaneously work to refine teaching and support the learning of teachers across their career. We are leaders in the field of practice-based professional learning because we focus squarely on the actual work of teaching and what it takes to learn to develop it.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Seeing the Michigan Department of Education make a focus on our high-leverage practices a requirement for all teacher preparation programs in the state.
Supporting faculty members in the California State University system—preparer of 10% of the nation’s teachers—to transform their methods courses.
Collaborating for 5+ years with Grand Rapids Public Schools to transform mathematics teaching and learning across the district.
Partnering with the Charles Butt Foundation to support 120+ faculty members on more than 16 campuses across Texas to recenter their methods courses on practice.
Working closely with Baltimore City Public Schools to develop systems for supporting new teachers and their mathematics teaching across the district.
Serving as an inaugural member of the Teacher Preparation Transformation Centers Community of Practice, impacting more than 50 preparation programs nationwide.