Fifty-nine percent of Opportunity Culture® schools in North Carolina exceeded student growth expectations in 2015–16, more than double the percentage of N.C. schools overall at just 28 percent, according to school performance data the state released September 2. ...
Beverley Tyndall
N.C. Opportunity Culture® Schools Beat State Rates of Student Growth
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Fifty-nine percent of Opportunity Culture schools in North Carolina exceeded their student growth expectations in 2015–16, more than double the percentage of N.C. schools overall at just 28 percent, according to school performance data the state released September 2. Read the full press release here…
State Leaders, Seize ESSA’s Opportunities for Excellence. Here’s How.
Published on Real Clear Education, August 18, 2016 by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel State and district leaders have a great new opportunity under the 2015 federal Every Student Succeeds Act: more flexibility in spending the funds they receive than in prior...
ESSA Opportunities for Excellence: New Real Clear Ed Column
In a new column for Real Clear Education, Public Impact®'s co-directors, Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, highlight the opportunities through ESSA for state leaders to achieve excellence: State and district leaders have a great new opportunity under the 2015...
ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity
State and district leaders have a chance under ESSA (the 2016 Every Student Succeeds Act) to use their new funding flexibility to take a new approach that focuses on excellence for teachers, and students.
Understanding the Opportunity Culture® Principles
This two-page guide helps schools and districts implementing Opportunity Culture school models and roles interpret the five Opportunity Culture Principles. The principles help schools ensure that roles extending the reach of excellent teachers and principals to far more students, and to their colleagues, are sustainable and effective.
High-need, San Antonio-area District Joins Opportunity Culture®
The Harlandale Independent School District, in south-central San Antonio, Texas, has joined the national Opportunity Culture® initiative to extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets. The Texas...
Harlandale Joins TX Districts Creating Teacher-Leader Roles
JULY 19, 2016, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—The Harlandale Independent School District, in south-central San Antonio, Texas, has joined the national Opportunity Culture initiative to extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets. Read the full press release…
How to Radically Improve Teacher & Principal Preparation
How can new teachers and principals start their jobs prepared for educational excellence, and how can the schools that hire them know they’re ready to excel? In today’s preparation systems, no one is fully getting what they need—not aspiring teachers and principals,...
Paid Educator Residencies, Within Budget
Paid Educator Residencies, Within Budget: How New School Models Can Radically Improve Teacher and Principal Preparation details how to create paid, full-time, yearlong residencies for aspiring teachers and principals, within existing budgets.