Former Multi-Classroom Leader® Okema Owens Simpson led the development of Public Impact’s on-demand module, Building a Scalable, Sustainable Tutoring Culture for All. In this podcast, Simpson provides an overview of the Multi-Classroom Leader® role and the power of small-group, in-school tutoring through MCL teams, as a preview for watching the module and understanding our SIMPLE framework for building a tutoring culture. Listen here.
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Opportunity Culture® Design Federal Grant Opportunities
Opportunity Culture® Design Federal Grant OpportunitiesGet help bringing grants to your state and district, with no or minimal extra costsBring our record of success to your district or state! Public Impact has won all of our past grant proposals written for federal...
Record Number of Systems to Begin Using Opportunity Culture Design
With state funding in New Mexico and North Carolina and private funding in Oklahoma, 25 schools systems will join the national Opportunity Culture® initiative in 2026, extending the reach of excellent teaching to more students, for more pay, within regular budgets. The initiative’s staffing designs have boosted student learning and reduced vacancies nationally.
Up to 3X Rate of High Learning Growth with Opportunity Culture Designs—New Data
North Carolina schools with Certified Opportunity Culture School® status were two to three times more likely to exceed learning growth expectations than schools not using Opportunity Culture® staffing design, 2024–25 data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction shows.
Of all 258 schools with certification, 48% exceeded growth targets, compared with 25% of all schools in the state without these staffing designs.
Of the 222 Title I schools with certification, 43% exceeded growth targets, compared with 21% of Title I schools in the state without these designs.
The certified schools were also significantly less likely to fall short of growth expectations than comparable schools.
Opportunity Culture® Models Perform Best Among School Staffing Initiatives
Opportunity Culture® staffing models, which create teacher-led teams, continue to produce top-tier results nationally, according to nearly a dozen years of data, Public Impact® reported today. The models reach larger numbers of students each year, produce substantial extra student learning growth, provide field-leading pay supplements, and achieve extremely high ratings in educator surveys. Districts examining turnover and vacancies have seen substantial declines. These results have held even as the model scales up nationally, unlike many school reform initiatives whose early results fade.
Opportunity Culture Models Perform Best Among School Staffing Initiatives
July 15, 2025, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Opportunity Culture® staffing models, which create teacher-led teams, continue to produce top-tier results nationally, according to nearly a dozen years of data. The models reach larger numbers of students each year, produce substantial extra student learning growth, provide field-leading pay supplements, and achieve extremely high ratings in educator surveys. Districts examining turnover and vacancies have seen substantial declines. These results have held even as the model scales up nationally, unlike many school reform initiatives whose early results fade.
Opportunity Culture Credentials
Opportunity Culture® CredentialsFor professional learning that helps educators extend their reachOpportunity Culture® credentials from Public Impact® let educators share with their colleagues, parents, and community how they are learning to extend the reach of...
Can You Add Tutoring Time for Free?
Master Team Reach Teacher™ Macey Williams tutors a small group of students at Lucama Elementary in Wilson County, North Carolina, while Reach Associate™ Joy Mosely works with other students in the back of the classroom. Nearly any school can dramatically increase...
What Do Superintendents Say About Opportunity Culture® Models?
Scott Muri Jason van Heukelum Valerie Bridges Cindy Bennett Anthony Jackson We can tell you all about how district leaders laud Opportunity Culture® models. But as every great writing teacher ever has said, “show, don’t tell.” So to show you what superintendents...
Creating a ‘tutoring culture’ — for all, by all
From EdNC, by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan C. Hassel, July 8, 2024
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars will evaporate from the U.S. economy due to permanent learning shortfalls post-COVID, by McKinsey’s calculation.
Research has shown high-dosage tutoring is crucial to addressing these shortfalls. In effective high-dosage tutoring, tutors provide students with at least 90 minutes of tutoring per week, aligned with the school’s curricula, in small groups based on their learning data, to build relationships and meet students’ instructional needs. Tutors grow their knowledge and skills through professional development and coaching.
But far too few students in North Carolina get this sort of tutoring.
Is there a way to get tutoring to everyone without increasing costs? Yes, by engaging all available adults to create a “tutoring culture”– for all, by all.