Managament matters - Site Manager TNTP Employee Review

3.0
4 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Really determined, goal-oriented, generally friendly, and high-performing employees make for an overall good organization. Lots of teacher-heads ensure that the overall conversation and direction at each site skews towards instruction and, when dealing with things like district structure/systems, TNTPers stay focused on what needs to happen to strengthen teaching and improve learning outcomes.

Cons

Several reviews here on glassdoor talk about management at TNTP being hit or miss. I think that's exactly right. If you are considering a job with TNTP, absolutely ask about your manager and activate your network to learn more about this individual. I got a chance to work with a number of outstanding people at TNTP, and heard about other peoples' managers making them more effective. That was not my experience. I like to think I am generally pretty amiable and I am used to hard core urgency in other intense ed-reform organizations... and I found my manager so abrasive, condescending, and such a micromanager that it led to a sort of paralysis, and I quit. My manager had been a manager for a couple of years at TNTP when I started - I don't know if micromanagement had led to success with other employees or if this was something she wanted to try out with me. Some of my favorite quotes that she often repeated to me: "the best way to establish authority as a new manager, is to tell people what to do"; "you need to stop saying 'thank you,' it's their job - you're their boss"; and, anytime I completed a menial task, "I think this is SO SMART of you." I found this all to be somewhere between annoying and offensive, so I left.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Consulting services are strong and seem to get results and be supportive of students and teachers. Many smart, funny, warm colleagues. Working remotely is ideal for many, very generous holiday/time-off benefits and 7% retirement matching. Birthday, anniversary, holiday gift cards, $400 wellness money.

Cons

When someone leaves, backfills are uncommon and remaining staff absorb the work without additional recognition or pay. It is extremely difficult to be promoted from within.

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TNTP Response
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 Thank you for letting us know about this. We always aim to deliver a great experience, and we are saddened when we don’t meet expectations. Your feedback helps us do better, and we always aim to have a staff that adequately meets the needs of clients. You can email us at talent@tntp.org with further comments, concerns, or suggestions you wish to share. Again, thank you for taking the time to share this.
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