The science of reading has “come alive” at Lucama Elementary, in North Carolina’s Wilson County Schools, after the principal and her team of Multi-Classroom Leaders led the use of multiple curricula and data-driven small-group instruction and interventions—resulting in strong student learning growth. Watch our new video here to learn more!
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New Opportunity Culture® Video: 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.
New Opportunity Culture® Videos: Teacher Residencies; Collaborative Spaces
By Public Impact, October 5, 2022
Check out our latest short videos, showing how Opportunity Culture residencies help schools create teacher pipelines and increase student support, and how one school’s building design enhances team collaboration.
Short Video: N.C. Superintendents of the Year on Using Opportunity Culture® Models
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, December 9, 2021
When Dr. Tony Jackson, then superintendent of Vance County Schools, was named the 2020 A. Craig Phillips North Carolina Superintendent of the Year, we at Public Impact were delighted—but hardly surprised. Having worked with Jackson since 2016 to help the district implement Opportunity Culture models, we knew the powerful effect his leadership had on this northeastern North Carolina district, on the Virginia border.
Resources, Videos, News: March Opportunity Culture® Newsletter
By Public Impact, March 30, 2021
The March newsletter includes resources for recruiting and hiring for Opportunity Culture roles, a blog about one Texas teacher’s experience as an Opportunity Culture resident, Public Impact’s brief about federal policy recommendations, video playlists, and more. Read the full March 2021 newsletter here.
From math to PE, teachers creating online video library for Guilford County Schools students
From News and Record, May 6, 2020, by Jessie Pounds
Guilford County Schools is pulling together a new resource for parents and students, who are finishing the school year virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.
It is an online library of district-made videos explaining topics that students should or would be learning about in their grade levels. Teachers and others have been working for weeks to make the videos. This week, the district started uploading them to a special spot on its website for distance learning. The school system called on teachers like Brandi Turner involved in its Opportunity Culture program to help make the videos. Read the full article…
What Could You Do in an Opportunity Culture®? New Opportunity Culture® Video
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, October 9, 2019
Watch the short video and check out the Opportunity Culture website to learn why this movement continues to grow 50 percent each year. Then share with educators, parents, and policymakers you know who would benefit from the higher student learning growth and educator career opportunities of an Opportunity Culture!
Videotape Teaching and Coaching Routinely
For impactful feedback, make videotaping routine, of both instruction and coaching time so everyone can quickly see and improve any trouble spots, Multi-classroom leader Okema Owens Simpson says.
Use Videotaping as Strategy to Improve Coaching
Frequent videotaping of multi-classroom leaders coaching team teachers helps review and improve coaching and feedback, Principal Erica Jordan-Thomas says.
Days in the Life: Video, Vignette Show the Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader
When Opportunity Culture® multi-classroom leaders describe their jobs—providing intensive, on-the-job coaching, support for planning, and data analysis leadership to a team of teachers while continuing to teach students, too—they hear the same question: How do you fit...