Testimonials - Educators share their LessonLab experiences

"Our work with LessonLab has inspired us to create our own copyright-free material to use in our videos, to carry our cameras and capture our everyday work, and to deepen our discussion and learning about our practices.....We continue to receive substantive and technical support from our LessonLab colleagues that is knowledgeable and gracious and which fosters our creativity."

Cara L. Garcia, Ph.D.
Professor of Education & Literacy Mentor
Pepperdine University

"LessonLab offered us partners who agreed with our particular philosophical approach to professional development and whom we could bring in to work with us on trying to think about how we provide the best professional development we can to all of these teachers."

Dr. Megan Franke
Associate Professor & Director
UCLA and Center X

"In our online Classroom Management course delivered on the Visibility^TM platform, participants expressed genuine surprise at the breakthroughs made in more effectively managing their classrooms. Participants' level of self-reflection, peer support, and problem solving amazed our course instructors. We experienced what teacher-centered learning looks like and could not have accomplished this without the collaboration and support of the LessonLab directors and technical staff."

Lilian Utsumi
Coordinator, Pre-Intern Program
Los Angeles Unified School District

"In looking for professional development platforms for our internal training needs and for our clients, we feel LessonLab is uniquely positioned to provide on-line professional development focused on improving classroom instruction. We have not found another platform that matches LessonLab's approach to examining classroom videos."

Ledyard McFadden
President
SchoolWorks

"To gain knowledge about the effectiveness of LessonLab Software and the conditions of productive video-based learning, case studies with university students and in teacher training were conducted and evaluated. The results show mainly positive effects and demonstrate the crucial importance of simplicity of the learning platform, technical support and the design of the tasks in order to promote learning processes with internet-based video cases."

Dr. Kurt Reusser
Professor
University of Zurich

"LessonLab has provided our teachers with an opportunity to view and discuss best practices. The LessonLab learning model has provided our teachers with an on-line professional development experience that has focused on reflective thinking and collaborative dialogue about teaching and student learning. The LessonLab staff has been an invaluable resource to our district staff in the implementation of the platform and the building of the lesson archives."

Dr. Michael P. Klentschy
Superintendent
El Centro Elementary School District
El Centro, CA

"The LessonLab community has played a pivotal role in not only my own professional growth, but that of many mathematics and science educators in my district. The LessonLab approach to professional development provides participants with an opportunity to reexamine our teaching philosophy thus transforming how we view mathematics teaching and learning. Their intuitive software makes it easy for teachers new to technology to concentrate on the content and not on the software. LessonLab's staff has been instrumental in our efforts to move our district not only to more online professional development but also to a lesson study approach to professional development."

Desmond Jones
eLearning Mathematics/Science Coordinator
Chicago Public Schools