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Our clients need help with DEI, cultural awareness, etc. There's a big gap that's missing with the opportunity myth . We pivoted to grade appropriate content and instruction, but honestly until mindsets shift, we won't see long lasting change.

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Agree with the notes below about anticipating needs and getting smarter on distance learning. I also think we (not just TNTP, but the field) should be thinking about how we're measuring the effectiveness of online instruction. Not necessarily evaluating teachers, but engaging in some kind of ongoing progress monitoring to track how kids are or are not getting access to meaningful instruction and then implementing PD in response.

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Although I think the goal of really tailoring our outreach and scopes of work to state contexts is critical, we're not there yet in "emerging" states. It'll continue to be important as we'll see even more of a patchwork of logistical and material approaches to education, at both state and local levels, across our region in the coming months.

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Proud and challenging: we pivoted very quickly to support clients in the midst of a pandemic, but I think at physical and/or mental cost for staff. As we head into a year with all kinds of uncertainty, I wonder if/how we can continue the same level of work without facing burnout.

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I would love to learn from other regions outside of the SE. I think our reorg has intentionally made us more siloed and I regularly feel like I'm not sure what's going on in other places

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Agree with everything below. I think we need to 1) revisit staffing and generally how people are using time/taking time off. The bandaid staffing approach has lasted for months now and though it may be most effective, people don't like it. 2) shift our support to anticipating need rather than reacting. Primarily, I think this means a focus on how we can get smarter on distance learning content and support. 3) focus on knowledge management - if not as an org than at least as a region - there's more reinventing the wheel going on now that everything seems new/different.

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Honestly, I still struggle to understand how we get this from exploratory and conversational to selling more work - particularly when local staff capacity is already tapped for work elsewhere. Even if I do sell more SC work, there's no one anywhere in either of the Carolinas (and maybe not even in the SE) to staff it - and given ongoing travel restrictions - I imagine we'll resume local travel before flying, this will continue to be a problem

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Random, but I wonder if there's benefit to increased partnership between the education and health care sector during this time and what that would look like. Having informed and safe citizens starts with making sure our kids are getting accurate info about this. Has there been any thought on how we integrate current health issues into STEM related education this year?

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How are we thinking differently about the need to build local relationships given our travel ban? How are we better setting up our clients to be the face of some of this engagement/relationship building

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How are we anticipating what our partners will need rather than reacting? For example, are we going to see massive teacher attrition rates in the first couple months of school? How are we supporting talent offices to think about what this means for teacher hiring and onboarding? LID is only so big and can only do so much - it's going to take an org wide effort to do some of this anticipatory thinking

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There are a LOT of frameworks out there and a LOT of cohort-style experiences for districts to consider right now. I think we need to be leaning into providing actual, turnkey content for people to use. The ship has sailed (or at least is unmoored) for the fall. Wondering what real resources will be most needed after the fall.

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I wonder how we are pivoting instructional support to focus on hybrid and distance learning. Distance learning didn't go well for most in the spring and a good portion of this year will probably continue to be focused on remote learning. How are we supporting this?

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Very challenging to not be able to travel and still do the work - I worry about our ability to build new strong relationships with clients virtually

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Staffing has obviously been a real challenge. Although we're going to hire (which is great) I still think there is a challenge that will last through the end of the fiscal (and maybe beyond) with people taking a lot of vacation time and COVID time. In my experience, someone who is allocated at 50% might only be spending 25% with all the time off folks are taking. While vacation time will slow in the next fiscal, curious how we're going to continue to handle COVID time off

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There is more conversation amongst (some) NC staff, more policy awareness, novel and promising leads, and more recognition of TNTP with influential stakeholders. We haven't reached any "lift-off" though for a regular cadence (and I don't think we will until people are working in the state and across content (vs. content silos)).

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Think we responded really well last spring to changing needs of our clients and have continued to be able to offer strong support leading up to reopening. I have questions about whether we'll be able to sustain this type of virtual support and meet revenue targets moving forward.

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I still believe in the regional model (especially state-level strategy). We still seem a very long way off from local impact being a prevalent way of viewing our work.

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It's been great getting everyone in Florida on the same page during our monthly calls and using the Local Impact Strategy to ground the work. I think I'm realizing the staff really all need to be there. We meet monthly.

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It's been great getting everyone in Florida on the same page during our monthly calls and using the Local Impact Strategy to ground the work. I think I'm realizing the staff really all need to be there. We meet monthly.

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We need to use this as an opportunity to pause and reflect on our culture. We've been on autopilot and things have ramped up since Covid-19. We can support to build in time to structure work differently. It feels like with everyone online there is less variety in work, constant calls (internal and external) etc. How is time structured for more collaboration and problem of practice support.

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We should highlight our partners more to increase brand awareness and highlight bright spots from the field

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Distance learning support for schools and systems getting into the weeds of implementation

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Opportunity for staff to tap into local networks in the coming months

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More training on school level supports regarding learning acceleration

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Focus on staff experience is relevant however I am not sure there have been consistent staff development or leadership opportunities

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Grateful to have support from Chris and others with RFPs

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Challenging: pace of work through the pandemic and police brutality

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TNTP doing good work to stay relevant in a changing education landscape.