Educators in Vance County Schools explain what they love about Opportunity Culture® and the new teaching roles it offers them.
Beverley Tyndall
In Lincoln, Arkansas, Multi-Classroom Leaders Guide the Way on At-Home Learning
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, June 11, 2020
As educators end the school year and look ahead to an uncertain fall, districts report that their Opportunity Culture leaders helped smooth the transition to at-home learning and set up structures that will help next year.
In Arkansas, middle school multi-classroom leaders (MCLs) in Lincoln Consolidated Schools made the transition easier by creating structures other schools could use, and producing instructional videos that could be used now and in the future.
In the few days the district had to plan its transition to at-home learning, Lindsay Bounds, Lincoln Middle School’s math and science MCL, worked with her principal and fellow MCLs to create a digital plan outlining what every person in the school would do. The district’s high school quickly adapted the plan for its own use after the superintendent shared it. Read More…
Multi-Classroom Leadership with Students and Teachers at Home
This slide deck, with accompanying schedule examples, provides considerations and recommendations for Opportunity Culture schools to continue achieving high-growth student learning and developing students’ critical social-emotional skills, and providing strong support to teaching teams. It suggests high-connection and lower-connection learning options, reviews the shifts needed in technology, roles, instruction, and schedules, and provides a basic action planner.
Multi-Classroom Leadership with Students and Teachers in Multiple Locations
What can Multi-Classroom Leadership look like if some students and teachers need to stay home, or if schools open, then shut, in waves in the coming school year? This model offers three detailed scheduling and staffing model options for Opportunity Culture schools faced with those conditions, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Recommended District Policies for At-Home Teaching and Learning
As students and teachers shift to working from home, many district policies need to shift as well. Our new publication, Recommended District Policies for At-Home Teaching and Learning, provides recommendations with a focus on: What policies are both feasible and most likely to produce strong learning outcomes for all students, especially disadvantaged learners?
A Complete Opportunity Culture®, For All
Research shows that multi-classroom leaders lead teaching teams to move from achieving average student learning growth to growth like or approaching that of top teachers. This two-page brief explains how a complete Opportunity Culture can maintain these results and extend them to all preK–12 students and both current and aspiring educators.
Better Together
This brief slide deck describes the many benefits of combining the Multi-Classroom Leadership model with Team Reach.
Steven Kennedy on Being a Multi-Classroom Leader®
Steven Kennedy describes the support he is able to give new and veteran teachers as a multi-classroom leader (MCL), and how the role has allowed him to stay in education.
Classroom Strategies Help Meet Students’ Needs
Multi-Classroom Leader® Fred Hoffmann shares strategies for managing the classroom to create an environment where students can be successful.
Create a Welcoming Classroom Environment
Set up your classroom to make it a place that fosters trust and joy, says Multi-Classroom Leader® Fred Hoffmann.