Practitioners who wrote the books — and still do the work.
Amy Tepper
Nearly 30 years in K-12 education across traditional, blended, virtual, and international settings, as a teacher, administrator, program director, and coach. She's opened schools and supported high school redesign and, since 2013, served as a peer validator in large urban districts while coaching instructional leaders in observation, feedback, and teaching and learning. She also presents nationally on instructional leadership practices. That range is what allows her to meet leaders where they are, in whatever system they're operating in. Districts don't just implement her frameworks. They internalize them.
Amy is the co-author of Feedback to Feed Forward and Learner-Focused Feedback, originally published by Corwin as Visible Learning Supporting Resources and now independently published by Tepper & Flynn, LLC.
Patrick Flynn
Patrick Flynn combines deep classroom experience, executive leadership across nine states, and a systems thinker's eye for what makes improvement sustainable at scale. He has worked as a teacher, curriculum director, Chief Academic Officer, and Executive Director, and as a coach/consultant, in district, regional, and international settings including the Abu Dhabi Education Council. He also owned an independent consulting firm and, for 16 years, has coached districts and principals on instructional and organizational leadership.
Patrick is the co-author of Feedback to Feed Forward and Learner-Focused Feedback, originally published by Corwin as Visible Learning Supporting Resources and now independently published by Tepper & Flynn, LLC. He presents nationally and internationally on instructional leadership, performance management, and data-driven decision-making.
Where Amy works at the level of individual leader transformation in a classroom or building, Patrick works at the level of organizational design — building the structures, protocols, and shared frameworks that make growth consistent across an entire district.
Built with instructional leaders.
Every strategy in the Feed Forward Framework™ was piloted with real coaches and principals, in real classrooms, under real constraints, before it ever reached a book or a training room. Districts don't just implement it. They shaped it.
"They can see from 30,000 feet up and from three feet up. It's kind of this amazing ability."
"Real people who totally get it."
"They know our school, they know our people."
"They never have felt like a company selling us a product."
Adopted by state education agencies
The Connecticut and Arizona Departments of Education have both adopted the Feed Forward Framework™ for statewide instructional leader training.
Authors of two books on feedback and instructional leadership
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