Amy Tepper
Amy Tepper has served as a teacher, administrator, and program director in various K-12 settings and startups to include virtual, homeschool, blended, and public schools. She held the position of Executive Director of a Sylvan Learning Center, opened an alternative 6th-12th school in Okaloosa County, FL, and later was actively engaged in Florida high school redesign and career education reform, providing technical assistance across the state. Amy had the opportunity to collaborate with a team of parents to develop the Ohana Institute, an innovative blended school, focused on global citizenship and discovery learning, serving as Director in its first year. As a consultant, she provided instructional and administrative coaching at an international school in Panama, before joining ReVISION Learning Partnership in 2013. Amy has since completed countless classroom observations through work as a peer validator evaluating practices in Newark and New Haven schools, and in providing embedded, ongoing support for instructional leaders and teachers in the areas of high quality observation, feedback, and teaching and learning across Connecticut.
Workshops
- Building Your Capacity as Instructional Leaders - Creating Feedback that Feeds Forward: During these sessions observers/coaches will work with Amy to build capacity and improve practice in a) observation and evidence collection, b) analysis of educator effectiveness, and c) methods for providing effective feedback, all towards a calibration of practice.
- Collegial Calibrations: Through this embedded, small group model, evaluators are given specific guidance on how to collect quality evidence of teacher performance and practice, communicate opportunities for teacher growth through written and verbal feedback, and design professional development to support high leverage skill development.