Oklahoma: Redesign Schools for High Growth, Great Educator Careers
Act quickly to secure your place in this funded design cohort!
Excellent student results, higher pay and support for educators: The Opportunity Culture® initiative is coming to Oklahoma!
Responses Due January 30
Available now: Funded assistance to design and launch school innovation and transformation with proven results—providing breakthrough solutions. The Opportunity Culture staffing initiative can help your school system retain and attract your top teachers, help all educators excel, and improve student learning outcomes.
Opportunity Culture staffing models are cost-neutral, using existing funding to pay for new roles—making roles and pay permanent, not grant-dependent. Teachers earn more and collaborate in the design process with administrators.
Only 16 school systems in Oklahoma will be selected. The first eight will be selected in February, to design this semester for 2026–27 implementation. Eight more will design in 2026–27 for 2027–28 implementation.
Signal your initial interest using the form below, by January 30!
Selection Criteria
District or charter school LEA located in Oklahoma (including OTEP participants).
Interest by one or more of your top system leaders in reaching all or most students and educators with the outcomes listed above, using the Opportunity Culture design methods.
Other criteria may apply. We will strive to serve all interested school systems.
What School Systems Will Receive
Selected systems will participate as a cohort in design sessions and receive 1:1 follow-up design help, first at the system level and then for each school. Educators entering new, advanced roles will join in-person summer professional learning to fully prepare for their new roles.
Systems typically begin implementing in one to eight schools, depending on system size and readiness. In their second and third years, school systems will receive ongoing implementation support and design for additional schools.
More about Opportunity Culture Design
In schools using Opportunity Culture models, a group of teachers and administrators determines how to use the Multi-Classroom Leader® role and other teaching team roles to reach all students with excellent teaching and small-group instruction. Each teacher in the Multi-Classroom Leader role leads a small teaching team, providing guidance and frequent on-the-job coaching while continuing to teach, often by leading small-group instruction. Accountable for the results of all students in the team, these team leaders earn supplements averaging 20 percent of teacher pay, within the regular school budget. Schools may also choose to pay team teachers and paraprofessionals more.
We look forward to hearing from you and will be delighted to support your success!
How do Opportunity Culture models improve teacher retention and student outcomes?
Extra Months of Learning Each Year*
Research-proven
Third-party studies show that, in reading and math among students directly taught by these teams, students gained an extra 2–7 months of learning above comparable students each year, or an average of +4.5 extra months in a nine-month school year.
% Consistent Teacher-Leader Approval
Educator-endorsed
97–99% of educators in the Multi-Classroom Leader role and more than 90% of educators in all Opportunity Culture roles consistently report wanting these roles to continue in their schools, according to a decade of anonymous survey results.
Additional Resources
More on the Opportunity Culture strategy
Learn how these innovative staffing models help pre-K–12 districts and schools restructure to extend the reach of excellent teaching to more students, for more pay, within recurring school budgets
More on the initiative results nationally
Read how Opportunity Culture models boast over a dozen years of student learning growth and educator-pleasing results