About

Mark Tompkins is the creator/author of Teachingstrategylibrary.org (TSL)

Mark has served as Elementary Principal, School Superintendent, Senior Consultant at High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, and Facilitator at Western Michigan University High Impact Leadership Project.  He has a Master’s degree (Harvard) and Ph.D. (WMU).  

His key interest and purpose is improving teacher effectiveness.   We know what makes effective teachers based on years of evidence-based meta-analysis research (John Hattie, Robert Marzano, etc). Unfortunately, rarely has this information been at the forefront of teacher professional development.  Instead, the emphasis has been on “what to teach” (standards & elaborate curriculum) rather than on “how to teach” (teaching methods and strategies). Knowing “how to teach” using the best evidence-based methods is the key to unlock student learning.

TSL solves this by providing a teacher-friendly list of strategies and associated resources to facilitate understanding.

TSL has been created to do the following:

* Inform educators on the importance of Evidence-based methods.

* Provide educators with a simple, ever-evolving Library of instructional methods and influences ranked in order of effectiveness.

*For each strategy in the Library, a curated collection utilizing AI support tools, defines articles, video’s and links to practical examples and resources.