The December newsletter includes a new Opportunity Culture® audio, video, and blog. It also includes a prompt for Opportunity Culture® principals, winter resources, and media highlights. Read the December 2022 newsletter here.
NEW FROM PUBLIC IMPACT
Opportunity Culture® Audio, Video, Blog
Dramatic Student Growth Follows Focus on Data, Small-Group Tutoring, and Collaboration
Lucama Elementary, a rural, Title I school in Wilson County, North Carolina, implemented several Opportunity Culture® roles in 2021–22. Following a focus on data-driven, small-group tutoring, instruction based on the science of reading, and greater educator collaboration through Multi-Classroom Leader® teams, the school dramatically increased student learning growth. Principal April Shackleford and Lucama educators explain their success, and why it led them in 2022 to expand to schoolwide Opportunity Culture® roles.
Leading Through Co-Teaching a Combined Class
As a temporary solution to a shortage of paraprofessional reach associates who can provide release time, Multi-Classroom Leader® Sunil Dutt combines one of his math blocks with that of a new teacher into one large group meeting in the library, so that Dutt can co-teach and model instruction.
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How Opportunity Culture® Models Strengthen Educator Professional Learning
How does your Opportunity Culture® role reflect current research on professional learning? Researchers at Brown University recently highlighted six key design features of effective professional learning. Opportunity Culture® schools, which provide routine, job-embedded professional learning through Multi-Classroom Leader® teams, notably hit the mark for each of the key features.
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