Excellent Student Results. Excellent Educator Careers.
Students Reached
Teachers
$ Extra Pay
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Use research-proven Opportunity Culture staffing models to reach all students with excellent teaching and tutoring, all educators with supported, well-paying careers.
About the Opportunity Culture Initiative
Public Impact created and leads the Opportunity Culture initiative, the nation’s largest and most successful school staffing design effort. We are the most experienced school and staffing transformation service in the U.S., helping districts since 2013 to use our Opportunity Culture models to bring about robust educator support, sustainable higher pay, and strong student results. We are committed to educator development and success, and our design and professional learning services boast high client satisfaction.
THE STRATEGY
Using Innovative Staffing
The Opportunity Culture initiative’s models help schools address persistent educational challenges of lagging student learning and teacher shortages. The models use small teaching teams to provide increased small-group teaching and tutoring for students, with team leadership from an excellent teacher, and create yearlong, paid teacher residencies and well-paid, sustainable career paths.
THE EDUCATOR ROLES
Multi-Classroom Leader Teams
Pre-K–12 Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL) teams are the cornerstone of Opportunity Culture design; these teams, led by teachers with a record of student learning growth, offer a variety of roles for teachers, paraprofessionals, and yearlong teacher residents that pay more, increase learning, and address teacher shortages.
THE IMPACT
Strong Learning Growth
Third-party studies found that, on average, students gain an extra half-year of learning growth when their teachers are on Opportunity Culture Multi-Classroom Leader teams, many of which included advanced teaching and paraprofessional roles. Teachers who joined MCL teams moved from producing 50th percentile student learning growth to 77th percentile.
“Opportunity Culture is truly an innovative and immersive experience for educators to share their excellence and coach others, all while moving students in meaningful ways."
—Baltimore City Public Schools Teacher of the Year
"With the coaching that our MCLs are providing to our teachers, we saw an increase in the number of teachers who outperform the state in terms of growth of students."
—District Superintendent
"It’s something that I wish every school and every teacher and every student could experience."
—Elementary School Multi-Classroom Leader
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WHAT’S HAPPENING
11 States, 150K+ Students, Positive Educator Feedback: 2022–23 Opportunity Culture Results: June Opportunity Culture Newsletter
By Public Impact, June 1, 2023 The June newsletter includes updates from the Opportunity Culture Dashboard; a welcome to new Opportunity Culture Sites; tools and resources; Opportunity Culture news, and more. 11 States, 150K+ Students, Positive Educator Feedback:...
How Strong District Opportunity Culture Leadership Helped Pave the Way for Low-Performing Schools to Succeed
When Dr. Tina Lupton and Dr. Timisha Barnes-Jones joined the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Opportunity Culture implementation was happening in the midst of Covid. Lupton, the executive director of professional learning, and Barnes-Jones, the area...
