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The Tepper & Flynn team is growing! Check out who has joined us this school year in support of improved practice and performance!
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Our diversity in skill creates a powerful force for change.
Since 2013, what has defined us as a team is a blending of unique experiences in the field of education coupled with an enduring drive to promote growth in others. Amy’s high level of understanding of research-based teaching and learning paired with Patrick’s expertise in supporting organizational design and shared decision-making, redesigns complex systems to ensure sustainability and impact. With the new additions of Dr. Patricia Law and Christine Baldelli, like minds driven with the same passion, the diversity of the expertise and depth of the knowledge of our team continues to grow.
“Amy Tepper provides an opportunity to ‘push our thinking’ as we develop our understanding of the rubric whether through facilitator questioning or creating the environments for collaborative peer-peer inquiry.”
Amy Tepper
Coach, Author, and Educational Consultant
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 until 2013, when she returned to continue supporting schools in the U.S. 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.
Amy is the co-author of Feedback to Feed Forward: 31 Strategies to Lead Learning and Learner-Focused Feedback: 19 Strategies to Observe for Impact.
Patrick Flynn
Author and Educational Consultant
Patrick Flynn has worked as a teacher, teacher leader, curriculum director, coach, 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. In his coaching and as a professional development director for a Regional Service Center in CT, he has provided professional learning in the areas of transformational leadership, performance management systems, standards-driven instruction, and data-driven decision-making.
As the Founder and Executive Director of ReVISION Learning Partnership, Patrick 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.
Patrick is highly sought after for his leadership in providing the highest quality professional learning opportunities for teachers, administrators, and district personnel. Patrick is the co-author of Feedback to Feed Forward: 31 Strategies to Lead Learning and Learner-Focused Feedback: 19 Strategies to Observe for Impact.
“Patrick allows our team to reflect on our strengths as administrators and work to improve our relationships with staff through effective communication and feedback.”
New to our team
Dr. Patricia Law
Educational Consultant
Dr. Patricia Law has worked in education for over 25 years as a teacher, building administrator, K-12 Curriculum Director and Superintendent of Schools in CT. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Saint Joseph. Throughout her career, she has focused on developing learning environments focused on equity, data-driven decision making and student growth. Dr. Law has provided professional development and coaching in the areas of strategic planning, interventions, curriculum design and implementation, Professional Learning Communities, and Social Emotional Learning. As a school principal and curriculum director, she helped lead the evaluation, revision and implementation of numerous academic, RTI and SEL-type programs allowing her schools to provide high quality educational opportunities for students.
As superintendent, she developed a district strategic plan, overhauled the special education services model for the district, and advanced several school-to-career programs providing high schoolers with a variety of pathways to success. One of the accomplishments she is most proud of as superintendent was the development of a school-based program for school-avoidant students, which serviced over 20 students. As an Associate with ReVISION & Tepper and Flynn, she has led workshops focused on observation and feedback strategies, led school based improvement planning, and has coached administrators in creating alignment between school goals and leadership actions.
Christine Baldelli
Educational Consultant
Christine Baldelli has worked as a teacher, school counselor, and administrator, beginning her career as a middle school math teacher 36 years ago focused on developing a way to meet the needs of all learners and creating a blended classroom ahead of her time. This became a foundation that assisted Christine as she led her middle school through the adoption of a one-to-one computing innovation a decade ago, along with her school counseling experience that has kept her grounded in establishing relationships. With twenty one years in administration at both the middle school level through the pandemic and high school level, she understands how to lead through change and challenge.
While serving as a school principal, Christine worked with the New England Secondary Schools to train her staff in standards-based instruction, assessment, and grading practices. She has implemented personalized faculty meetings for teachers, technology training on various school management systems, staff training on data to guide instruction, and facilitated the shift to inquiry learning in both math and science. Christine has also presented at both state and national conferences focusing on instructional practices for teachers, personalization of learning, and learning walks that advance student learning. As a consultant, Christine supports administrators as instructional leaders and teachers in moving forward through the use of personalized and differentiated instruction to ensure equitable and accessible instruction for all students.
Our clients say it best!
Get your copy of Feeback To Feed Forward: 31 Strategies to Lead Learning and Learner-Focused Feedback: 19 Strategies to Observe for Impact.
As a leader, you know that feedback is essential to teachers’ growth and development. But crafting the right feedback can be daunting. This how-to book, designed for leaders in all roles and at all experience levels, provides a dynamic yet practical leadership model focused on precisely those key tasks. How do you conduct comprehensive observations, accurately analyze lessons for effectiveness, and develop high-leverage action steps that bring lasting change to teacher practices and student outcomes?
“Leading learning meets specificity. Tepper and Flynn take the most powerful strategy for change we know—feedback— and comprehensively break it down into themes that are well-grounded in theory and practice. Treat Feedback to Feed Forward as a master cookbook. Look for what you need and delve into it with a connoisseur’s appetite.”
Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto
University of Toronto
“A leader’s most important job is to help teachers understand their impact on student learning. Collecting evidence of learning through observation is a difficult skill to master, but Tepper and Flynn have given us the tools we need in this essential new resource.”
John Hattie, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
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