July 24, 2012 - This Huffington Post article highlights Public Impact®’s recently published financial analyses of three reach extension school models. The analyses demonstrate how, by redesigning teacher roles to allow excellent teachers to reach more students,...
Beverley Tyndall
Ed-Tech Innovators: Get Results Now by Leveraging Great Teachers
We’re excited about the prospects, but we all know it will take time for digital learning to transform education. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of teachers will continue to be the single most important school factor in student learning.
That doesn’t mean innovation isn’t important. On the contrary, it’s vital for moving from today’s reality–in which only a fraction of students have excellent teachers–to what students need: consistent access to excellence. Here’s a prediction: Digital developers whose products are used to enable excellent teachers to reach more students successfully will be rewarded with positive results and avoid the dreaded “Cheaper but No Better” headlines.
Ed-Tech Innovators: Get Results Now by Leveraging Great Teachers
July 11, 2012 - In this guest column on Tom Vander Ark’s Vander Ark on Innovation blog, Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel emphasize seven priorities educational technology innovators should consider when designing digital learning tools. By consulting excellent...
Teacher Evaluation Outside the One-Teacher-One-Classroom Mode
As more schools use technology and new staffing models to reach more students with personalized learning and excellent teachers, how will evaluation systems keep up? It’s been a heavy lift for pioneering states and districts—examples here—just to begin measuring the basics in a one-teacher-one-classroom mode. What can schools do to select, develop, and evaluate teachers in new roles—such as those working in elementary specialist teams, blending technology and face-to-face instruction, leading other teachers, or using any of these models while reaching students in remote locations via webcams?
Teacher Evaluation Outside the One-Teacher-One-Classroom Mode
July 3, 2012 - As more schools use technology and new staffing models to reach more students with personalized learning and excellent teachers, how will evaluation systems keep up? In this blog post for Education Next, Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel examine what...
Financially Sustainable Career Paths for Teachers
Follow the money. Usually good advice to find out what’s actually important—or not—to people or organizations, regardless of the values they profess. In education, what’s most striking is where the money doesn’t go: to a variety of engaging roles and opportunities for education professionals, and expanded impact and opportunity for those who demonstrate excellence. In everyday lingo, that’s called “career paths.”
Financially Sustainable Career Paths for Teachers
June 4, 2012 - Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel describe Public Impact®'s new teacher career paths stemming from school models that use job redesign and technology to reach more students with excellent teaching, in this post for Education Next. These models enable...
Public Impact® Announces First Implementation Site in Initiative To Extend The Reach Of Excellent Teachers
May 10, 2012, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— Public Impact, a national education organization, announces its selection of the first implementation site in its initiative to extend the reach of excellent teachers and build an Opportunity Culture for teachers and students: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ Project L.I.F.T.. Read full press release…
First Opportunity Culture® Implementation Site Announced
May 10, 2012 - Public Impact®, a national education organization, announces its selection of the first implementation site in its initiative to extend the reach of excellent teachers and build an Opportunity Culture® for teachers and students: Charlotte-Mecklenburg...
Redesigning Schools for Financially Sustainable Excellence: Infographic!
Everybody loves a good infographic (even you wonky researchers – just wait ‘til nobody’s looking), and we hope this one will change how you view education reform efforts.
For word nerds, here’s a summary:
- Our nation is falling behind globally as other nations provide increasingly rigorous and widespread education to their people. No surprises there.
- It’s not hard to see why: In contrast to educationally high-performing nations, ours is not selective about who teaches our children. As a result, schools cannot provide the kind of autonomy that great teachers crave. They just can’t have confidence that most teaching professionals will self- lead the rigor-and-innovation infused school cultures great teachers want and students need.