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How Opportunity Culture® Redesigns Help Address Teacher Shortages

Principal Jeremy Baugh greets students as they arrive at Lew Wallace Elementary School.

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What if you could improve student outcomes even in a time of rising teacher shortages? Many schools and districts report feeling stuck on the hamster wheel of trying to fill all their open positions—a struggle that has been worsening for years. Listen to this recording of our post about the solution that could take principals out of chronic emergency hiring mode, and how two principals have used that solution. The end of the recording includes the post’s two sidebars, or listen to them separately, below.

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How Opportunity Culture® Redesigns Help Address Teacher Shortages

Sidebar: What These Pipeline-Building Roles Look Like

Sidebar: Effects of Class-Size Reductions

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