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NEW FROM PUBLIC IMPACT®
Op-Eds in EducationNC
With our partner The Innovation Project, we published two op-eds this month in EducationNC.
For collaborating districts, cohorts have power to address teacher shortages, student outcomes: No school wants to gamble with their students’ futures, wrote TIP CEO Sharon Contreras and Public Impact® Co-President Bryan Hassel. But when teacher shortages loom, schools trying to attract enough great teachers can feel like they’ve been dealt a losing hand. Read how a cohort of five districts—Wake, Rockingham, Edgecombe, Elizabeth City, and Rowan-Salisbury—joined forces to plan team roles that extend the reach of excellent teaching, pay educators more, and improve student outcomes.
“We believe these districts can serve as exemplars for cross-site collaboration across North Carolina, driving innovation, cost savings, talent sharing, and learning results while addressing staffing shortages too,” Contreras and Hassel wrote.
With pioneering collaboration, districts share excellent educators: What if a great teaching team leader took on two more team teachers—who just happened to be nearly three hours and six districts away? That’s what happened when the Edgecombe and Rockingham districts collaborated–showing how this can work with a team leader who could be down the street or several states away. Learn how this “remotely located” role can help districts expand the reach of excellent teachers: “we’re moving far beyond just breaking free of one-teacher, one-classroom limitations,” Hassel and Contreras wrote. |
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OPPORTUNITY CULTURE® AUDIO
Reset for Success: How Midland ISD Revamped Teaching Teams for Results |
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At Long Elementary School in Midland ISD, educators on teaching teams lead small-group instruction. |
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When Superintendent Stephanie Howard came to Midland ISD in the Permian Basin of Texas, she knew what success with Opportunity Culture® teaching team models should look like, after working with them in neighboring Ector County ISD as a deputy superintendent. Although Midland ISD was using these teams as well, several Opportunity Culture® fundamentals weren’t being followed. Howard and Jessie Garcia, who had also worked in Ector County, took a year to do a complete reset—an effort now paying off in learning growth for students, sustainable higher pay for teacher-leaders that can reach six figures, and stronger teacher support and retention. Hear how they did it in our latest audio piece. |
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SHOUT-OUT
Welcome to Newly Certified Schools |
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Congratulations to Barnes Elementary School in Wilson County, North Carolina, the second school nationwide to reach Level 2 for its Opportunity Culture Certified School™ status!
And congratulations to the more than 50 schools that have recently received certified status; see the full list on the Opportunity Culture® dashboard. |
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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Batter Up!
Step up to the plate this summer for invigorating days of professional learning for educators new to implementing Opportunity Culture® team teaching roles! Not on an Opportunity Culture® team? Catch the skills you need for other advanced teaching roles as well.
You’ll learn how to knock one out of the park with leadership and instructional excellence training for those in Multi-Classroom Leader®, Master Team Reach™, and Reach Associate™ roles. Whether you’re the coach or a key team player, there’s lots of learning here for you!
Join us for in-person sessions July 9 and 10 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, or participate in our virtual sessions from July 22–24.
See the fans of last year’s sessions here, then register today! |
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April Professional Learning Sessions
4/8 Navigating the Opportunity Culture® Certification Process, 3–4 p.m. ET FREE – Register
4/8 School-Level Staffing Design Workshop Part 1, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. ET – Learn More
4/9 School-Level Staffing Design Workshop Part 2, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. ET – Learn More
4/9 Introduction to School Staffing Design with Results, 1:05–3:30 p.m. ET — Register
4/15 District-Level Staffing Design Workshop Part 1, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. ET – Learn More
4/16 District-Level Staffing Design Workshop Part 2, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. ET – Learn More
4/17 Opportunity Culture® Info Session, 1:00–1:45 p.m. ET FREE — Register
4/30 National Behavioral Event Interview Training, 1:05–4:00 p.m. ET — Register |
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ICYMI
New Data, Big Results: Opportunity Culture® Roles Outpace Others in Learning Growth
Did you catch the latest data last month on schools using Opportunity Culture® teaching teams? How can schools or systems you know use this to scale up student learning results? |
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2023–24 Opportunity Culture® Outcomes Show High Growth in Title I Schools |
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Title I schools that had Multi-Classroom Leader® teaching teams for at least four years and were reaching all students in core subjects in 2023–24 were 83 percent more likely to make high growth schoolwide than Title I schools without these Opportunity Culture® teams.* |
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Title I schools using these teams for at least one year and reaching all students schoolwide in 2023–24 were 61 percent more likely to make high growth schoolwide than Title I schools without the teams.** |
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93 percent of schools using Opportunity Culture® models qualified for federal Title I funding. |
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*24 Title I schools for which growth data were available, affecting more than 500 teachers and over 13,000 students.
**41 schools for which growth data were available, affecting more than 900 teachers and over 22,000 students.
146 Title I schools in the data set had four or more years of experience with the roles. The prominent teacher coaching
meta-analysis by Brown and Harvard Universities considers programs of over 100 teachers to be large. |
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Both experience with Multi-Classroom Leader® teams and the percentage of students reached by them affected schoolwide outcomes.
Title I schools that had several years of experience with these teams, which can include new educator roles, and reached students schoolwide showed the best growth results—boosting their odds of high-growth learning schoolwide by 83 percent over schools without the roles. |
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Schools that reached the most students with excellent teaching through Multi-Classroom Leader® teams and sustained their commitment to these roles for 4 years or more were the most likely to achieve high growth schoolwide. |
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Reaching students mattered more than just gaining years of experience with the roles. Including all students increased the odds of high-growth learning schoolwide by 61 percent, while just gaining experience for four or more years boosted the odds of high growth by 26 percent. On average, participating schools are reaching about 56 percent of their students with Opportunity Culture® teaching teams.
Read more in our blog post. |
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