“Asking teachers to be superheroes and be all things to all students is an insane job description,” writes Michael Horn. After having Bryan Hassel and Ashley Williams of Public Impact on his Future of Education podcast to talk about Opportunity Culture® staffing design, Horn wrote, “The work Bryan and Ashley are doing speaks to a great solution—that also makes the job of teaching more motivating and viable.”
In Scaling the Transformation of the Traditional Teaching Model, Hassel and Williams discuss the power of teaching teams. In a LinkedIn post, Horn said the conversation left him with several takeaways, including that:
- the traditional staffing model creates structural constraints, leading to varying instructional quality, which Multi-Classroom Leader® teams address through distributed leadership
- career pathways may influence retention, through higher-paid roles that let great teachers stay in the classroom
- team-based coaching changes how professional development happens, making it ongoing and job-embedded
- the biggest barrier isn’t proof of concept, but transition cost, so broad adoption is improved with lowered transition costs–a key benefit of the Opportunity Culture® portal
- policy and AI may shape what’s next, with state funding programs and emerging AI tools potentially hindering or speeding staffing redesign–so system-level conditions matter.
Listen to the full podcast, and we thank Michael Horn for hosting Public Impact!