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Mockingbird Education

Meet Mockingbird
We want to offer our Students the best of who we are...
Like you, we want to offer our students the best of who we are. We want to make a positive difference in the lives of our learners. We want to teach better, smarter, more effectively, and with better outcomes. In short, we want to master the art and science of teaching…and learning.
Unfortunately, we have attended way to many professional development workshops where the information didn’t apply to our classroom context. We have sat in the back of the training room waiting for the facilitator to address the vulnerabilities, the trauma, and the difficulties of teaching a group of learners who are impoverished, over-stimulated, and under-resourced.
When our founder and CEO, Tamara Thompson was teaching in an inner city school, she couldn’t find the solutions she was looking for. She wanted research-based strategies that were practical and effective with vulnerable learners. She need strategies that spoke to the unique needs of vulnerable learners. She needed an approach that addressed the mental, emotional, and physical burden that learning sometimes brings when learners are trying to learn while they hold their lives together. Life and struggle impact cognition, esteem, motivation, and learning success. Shouldn’t our teaching be responsive to these conditions?
When you Don't Find What You are Looking For, Create It!
Our mission is simple…Help educators teach more effective and more consistently using practical, research-based strategies that address the WHOLE learner. Our approach is a BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL approach to learning. It is grounded in research, but it is also grounded in the grit of real teachers, teaching really hard, getting real results with learners leading really difficult lives.
our MIssion
Be the
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For Alternative Instruction

Tamara THompson Ceo | Founder
OUr Values
Mockingbird Education embraces the values and strategies that we teach. Seven values guide our organization.


Purpose Not Power
Purpose Not Power

Balance Not Burnout
Balance Not Burnout

The TIme is NOW!
The TIme is Now!

Collaboration Not Compliance
Collaboration Not Compliance

Style Versus Strategy
Style Versus Strategy

Joy and Wonder
Joy and Wonder
