Learn about the unique role of multi-classroom leaders (MCLs)—educators who provide intensive support and development to small teaching teams, for more pay, within regular budgets.
Beverley Tyndall
What Does a Multi-Classroom Leader® Do? – Extended Version
Learn about the unique role of multi-classroom leaders (MCLs)—educators who provide intensive support and development to small teaching teams, for more pay, within regular budgets.
Bridging the Gaps Between Teachers and Administrators
Multi-Classroom Leader® Brandon Warren sees his role as advocating for his teaching team with administrators, and helping everyone work together to reach their common goals.
Excellent Teaching for Every Young Child
How could far more children ages 0–5 who are in early childhood education and care settings have consistent access to excellent teaching? Public Impact’s new vision brief explains how Opportunity Culture models, including Multi-Classroom Leadership and educator residencies, can be applied to early childhood settings, and shows the potential benefits for students, educators, and the country.
More Than a Student Teacher
Alyssa Cool served as a teacher resident for a year in a pilot program for residents at Lew Wallace Elementary in Indianapolis.
Opportunity Culture® Teacher Residencies
Introduction Slidedeck In Opportunity Culture® schools, the Multi-Classroom Leadership role creates the potential for aspiring teachers to experience paid, full-time, yearlong residencies led by excellent teachers who lead small instructional teams, offered in...
Spring 2019 Newsletter
The Spring 2019 edition of our newsletter for Opportunity Culture educators includes columns by multi-classroom leaders Amber Hines and Hadley Moore, a new Communication Planner, updates on Opportunity Culture expansion, and links to free resources to use now! Read the Spring 2019 newsletter here.
The Best Tool—Sometimes: Using Tech in Elementary School
By Amber Hines; first published by EducationNC, March 5, 2019
“Our students are digital natives, so they’re confident with technology; it can give them the freedom to share their thoughts and think critically about both their own and their peers’ work.” For Multi-Classroom Leader® Amber Hines, who uses two-way video recording and QR codes with her students, technology enhances instruction by drawing out and engaging her teaching team’s students. Read More…
Guilford County System Tries New Approach to Help Students at Struggling Schools
From The Greensboro News & Record, January 14, 2019 by Jessie Pounds
After 10 years teaching English at Dudley High School, Ashley Ekwem-Thorpe had plenty of “Panther” pride, but also a desire for a new adventure. So this school year she applied for a new position advertised at Hairston Middle School, a feeder school to Dudley.
Multi-Classroom Leadership
Multi-Classroom Leadership is the cornerstone of an Opportunity Culture. Teachers with a record of high-growth student learning and leadership competencies, known as multi-classroom leaders or MCLs, both teach part of the time and lead small, collaborative teams of two to eight teachers, paraprofessionals, and teacher residents in the same grade or subject to meet each MCL’s standards of excellence.