Portal User Log-inMarch 8, 2013 – Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) recently published a list of resources that will be helpful to those developing new school designs for improving student outcomes using blended learning models. The list includes links to Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture financial planning resources, which describe how schools can reach all students with excellent […]
Nashville Sites Extending Excellent Teachers’ Reach
March 7, 2013—Public Impact today announced the latest implementation site in its initiative to extend the reach of excellent teachers and build an Opportunity Culture for teachers and students: Metro Nashville Public Schools’ Innovation Zone. Three pilot schools in the “iZone” —Buena Vista Elementary, Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet Elementary and Bailey STEM Magnet Middle School—will […]
Public Impact Co-Director Addresses U.S. Governors
February 24, 2013—Public Impact Co-Director Bryan C. Hassel spoke to the nation’s governors at their 2013 Winter Meeting in Washington, DC. Appearing with AEI’s Rick Hess, Bryan gave the governors five concrete ideas for giving every student in their states excellent teachers: Get selective about who can teach your state’s children; eliminate policy barriers to […]
New Opportunity Culture Charter School Network
February 6, 2013—Public Impact today announced its selection of four founding members of a national network of charter school organizations that will create an Opportunity Culture for teachers and extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students: Foundations College Prep (Chicago), Ingenuity Prep (Washington, D.C.), Touchstone Education (Newark), and Venture Academy (Minneapolis). This new national […]
Teachers: This is the Moment to Expand Your Impact
October 26, 2012 – In this abridged version of the Commentary that appeared in Education Week, Celine Coggins of Teach Plus joins Public Impact’s Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel to discuss why schools and policymakers must expand the impact of excellent teachers, now. With new information demonstrating the great variation in teacher effectiveness and […]
Kales Named CMS 2012-2013 Principal of the Year
October 25, 2012 – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools recently announced that Tonya Kales of Ashley Park Pre-K-8 School was named the CMS 2012-2013 Principal of the Year. Earlier this month, she was also named the Project L.I.F.T. Principal of the Year. Project L.I.F.T. is a nonprofit organization working to eliminate educational disparities within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district. […]
Huff Post: Public Impact ‘Extending The Reach’ Analysis
October 24, 2012 – Huffington Post featured Public Impact’s “Extending the Reach” videos on its Education page. Despite the fact that both presidential candidates have spoken a lot about the importance of excellent teachers, the article says, teachers in the U.S. earn less than 60 percent of the average pay for full-time college-educated workers. Huff Post Education noted that Public […]
10 Strategies to Promote Deeper Learning
October 17, 2012 – In his Ed Week blog post, Tom Vander Ark presents 10 strategies “that offer state, district, network, and philanthropic leaders leverage in their efforts to encourage more deeper learning, ” including the Opportunity Culture initiative’s effort to extend the reach of great teachers to more students. See the complete list in the […]
Using Teacher Data to Attract, Reward, & Retain Top Teachers
September 28, 2012 – Thanks to increasingly meaningful teacher evaluations, we know far more than ever about the effectiveness of teachers in public school classrooms. What should states, districts, and schools do with that knowledge? In policy debates, much of the attention has focused on teachers at the “ineffective” end of the spectrum. However, state and […]
The Original Personalization App—Great Teachers
September 17, 2012 – In this post for Education Next, Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel focus on the new District Race to the Top criteria requiring all applicants to meet an “Absolute Priority” for learning personalization that includes “expand[ing] student access to the most effective educators” and increasing all educators’ effectiveness. Districts that want to achieve this, they say, […]
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