TNTP Reviews

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Hours at times
Variation across team cultures

Cons

- Virtual culture - I enjoyed working remotely, but onboarding and building friendships takes longer outside a traditional office
- Travel - Most roles at TNTP require a fair amount of travel, and that can be tough for some folks

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work life balance is a significant challenge

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Worksite vary - some people work virtually and others are embedded in school districts.

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- Experience can be very manager specific; not all managers (direct or indirect) are effective at advocating for staff and setting them up for success, even if they themselves are effective at their jobs
- Organization has been at a turning point for years and mission feels murky to all but those in leadership

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Talks a lot about diversity, equity and inclusion but does not practice what it preaches in the workplace. Some people are valued more than others and it will show come promotion time. If you're not a certain type of person, you will not advance, regardless of your performance. Internal survey results of the last 2 years show this but management is more concerned about trying to fool its employees into thinking they're doing something about it when they're actually not. Most employees can see right through this which is why the same issue comes up survey after survey. It is no wonder so many people have left in the last year; TNTP is on a serious decline.

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Work can be scattered across many contracts at all times, easy to get put on work that doesn't interest you, the typical challenges that come with working virtually

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The feeling of job security that one would expect from performing at a high level and meeting proported expectations of ones manager are routinely robbed from hard working team members when it benefits their inadequate managers, and their are plenty of inadequate managers. Leaders at all levels are regularly unprofessional, and actively look for ways to shift blame to mismanaged staff members, or write glowing reports for well connected staff members. Depending upon who needs you out or who wants someone they can overwork for extended periods of time to get a job done at the lowest dollar (eg staff are regularly asked to complete work above their level of compensation to prove they’re worth the promotion, sometimes without ever being promoted) managers will ignore poor performance and punish whistleblowers. The contract multiple contract and matrix management systems encourage competition amongst leaders that makes TNTP an increasingly self-serving enitiy that has shown only marginal gains for students and a lot of headaches for districts. That would be fine if that resulted in positive financial gains or increased stability in their market share, but if you know anyone connected with the organization right now, you know that is not the case. The culture of inclusiveness that is touted is a gimmick. For certain groups working for TNTP, it is as bad or worse than ny private organization whose staff overwhelmingly comprises one demographic (and in education, it doesn’t take too many guesses to know which demo it is.)

Cons

Long and grueling days involving creating lesson plans, teaching students, and learning strategies from Teach Like A Champion with minimal positive reinforcement. My six weeks of training were extremely stressful, and many of the cohorts were beleaguered by the excessive demands. Furthermore, even if you resign you are expected to pay tuition. I successfully passed pre-service training, but my experience at a charter school was miserable. There was very little support from the TNTP staff, no paraprofessional to assist me, and the TNTP still demands tuition if you quit. I quit my position in August and TNTP still expected me to pay tuition. Avoid at all costs and seek a better route to become a certified teacher!

Cons

Work/life balance, contract-based, long hours - there were definitely more pros than cons with this organization.