Learner-Focused Feedback: 19 Strategies to Observe for Impact

About Amy TepperHelen SloanPatrick W. Flynn

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. Patrick Flynn has worked as a teacher teacher leader curriculum director and executive program director in K-12 settings in over eleven different states. As the Executive Director of High Schools for Edison Schools and the Chief Academic Officer for Great Schools Workshop in Sacramento CA Patrick worked with building and district administrations in nine states to implement systemic high school reform. He has provided professional learning in the areas of transformational leadership performance management systems standards-driven instruction and data-driven decision-making. Patrick is Founder and Executive Director of ReVISION Learning Partnership providing professional development and support to districts and educational organizations in CT NY NJ and LA since 2010. He has led several school improvement initiatives in rural and urban settings and internationally in the United Arab Emirates with the Abu Dhabi Education Council. He has presented nationally and internationally including as a keynote speaker at the Forum on Big Data at the Tianjin University of Technology in Tianjin China. ReVISION Learning is highly sought after for its leadership in providing the highest quality professional learning opportunities for teacher administrators and district personnel.