Excellent Student Results. Excellent Educator Careers.
Show your educators some love with the new Opportunity Culture®® portal! Based on 10 years of experience and data, the portal will let district leaders and educators design strategic staffing plans, learn how to achieve great results, and monitor to ensure positive impact!
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Use research-proven Opportunity Culture® staffing models to reach all students with excellent teaching and tutoring, all educators with supported, well-paying careers.
About the Opportunity Culture® Initiative
Public Impact® created and leads the Opportunity Culture® initiative, the nation’s largest and most successful school staffing design effort. We are the most experienced school and staffing transformation service in the U.S., helping districts since 2013 to use our Opportunity Culture® models to bring about robust educator support, sustainable higher pay, and strong student results. We are committed to educator development and success, and our design and professional learning services boast high client satisfaction.
THE STRATEGY
Using Innovative Staffing
The Opportunity Culture® initiative’s models help schools address persistent educational challenges of lagging student learning and teacher shortages. The models use small teaching teams to provide increased small-group teaching and tutoring for students, with team leadership from an excellent teacher, and create yearlong, paid teacher residencies and well-paid, sustainable career paths.
THE EDUCATOR ROLES
Multi-Classroom Leader Teams
Pre-K–12 Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL) teams are the cornerstone of Opportunity Culture® design; these teams, led by teachers with a record of student learning growth, offer a variety of roles for teachers, paraprofessionals, and yearlong teacher residents that pay more, increase learning, and address teacher shortages.
THE IMPACT
Strong Learning Growth
Third-party studies found that, on average, students gain an extra half-year of learning growth when their teachers are on Opportunity Culture® Multi-Classroom Leader teams, many of which included advanced teaching and paraprofessional roles. Teachers who joined MCL teams moved from producing 50th percentile student learning growth to 77th percentile.
“Opportunity Culture® is truly an innovative and immersive experience for educators to share their excellence and coach others, all while moving students in meaningful ways."
—Baltimore City Public Schools Teacher of the Year
"With the coaching that our MCLs are providing to our teachers, we saw an increase in the number of teachers who outperform the state in terms of growth of students."
—District Superintendent
"It’s something that I wish every school and every teacher and every student could experience."
—Elementary School Multi-Classroom Leader
Are you ready to make a commitment to all the students in your district or state?
Learn about our School Design and Professional Learning services.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Keeping Advanced Roles Alive and Thriving: Vance County’s Experience
Before Vance County Schools began designing its Opportunity Culture® staffing models in 2017–18, the district struggled with teacher turnover and higher pay supplements offered by nearby districts. Based in Henderson, N.C., the district began implementing the models...
Opportunity Culture® Information Session: Unique, Effective Staffing Design
May 2024 Newsletter: What Makes Strategic Staffing Changes Stick?
How do great educators use the results of one school year to plan and launch the next? In our free, three-part webinar series, excellent educators in the Multi-Classroom Leader™ role share their words of wisdom. We also share keys to sustainability from educators in...