The January newsletter includes a new Opportunity Culture video about the science of reading, a prompt for Opportunity Culture principals, winter resources, and media highlights. Read the January 2023 newsletter here.
New from Public Impact: How Innovative Staffing Can Address Teacher Shortages, Permanently—and Boost Learning
By Public Impact, January 12, 2023
How can innovative staffing help reduce staffing shortages and boost learning? Public Impact’s latest brief explains how the Opportunity Culture initiative uses innovative staffing designs to create new career options for educators, increase collaboration and support, and incorporate high-impact tutoring for all students into the school day—within regular budgets.
School’s Success with Data, Tutoring Focus: December Opportunity Culture Newsletter
By Public Impact, December 12, 2022
The December newsletter includes a new Opportunity Culture audio, video, and blog. It also includes a prompt for Opportunity Culture principals, winter resources, and media highlights.
New Opportunity Culture Video: Leading Through Co-Teaching a Combined Class
By Public Impact, December 12, 2022
As a temporary solution to a shortage of paraprofessional reach associates who can provide release time, Multi-Classroom Leader Sunil Dutt combines one of his math blocks with that of a new teacher into one large group meeting in the library, so that Dutt can co-teach and model instruction.
December 2022 Newsletter
The December newsletter includes a new Opportunity Culture audio, video, and blog. It also shares a prompt for Opportunity Culture principals, winter resources, and media highlights. Read the December 2022 newsletter here.
New Opportunity Culture Audio: Dramatic Student Growth Follows Focus on Data, Small-Group Tutoring, and Collaboration
By Public Impact, December 12, 2022
Lucama Elementary, a rural, Title I school in Wilson County, North Carolina, implemented several Opportunity Culture roles in 2021–22. Following a focus on data-driven, small-group tutoring, instruction based on the science of reading, and greater educator collaboration through Multi-Classroom Leader teams, the school dramatically increased student learning growth. Principal April Shackleford and Lucama educators explain their success, and why it led them in 2022 to expand to schoolwide Opportunity Culture roles in the latest Opportunity Culture audio piece.
Opinion: Georgia must figure out how to make teaching attractive again
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 22, 2022, by Maureen Downey
A new report echoes what Georgia educators have long lamented: Teaching has lost its luster.
The working paper from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University charts the state of the U.S. K-12 teaching profession over the last half century by examining prestige, interest among students, preparation for entry and job satisfaction. The damning conclusion: The current state of the teaching profession is at or near its lowest levels in 50 years.
New from Public Impact: How Opportunity Culture Models Strengthen Educator Professional Learning
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, November 14, 2022
In Building Better PL: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning, researchers Heather Hill and John Papay highlight six key design features of effective professional learning, or PL. Those features fall under two general principles for effective PL—it supports teachers’ day-to-day practice, and it involves accountability for change and improvement. Opportunity Culture schools, which provide routine, job-embedded PL through multi-classroom leader teams, notably hit the mark for those two principles and each of the key features.
Responding to NAEP Results: October Opportunity Culture Newsletter
By Public Impact, October 31, 2022
The October newsletter includes how to use Opportunity Culture models to respond to NAEP results, a new video and blogs, Opportunity Culture news, and more.
Maximize Opportunity Culture Models to Respond to NAEP Results
By Public Impact, October 28, 2022
The NAEP results released this week may feel deeply discouraging—if not surprising—to weary educators. But Opportunity Culture research points to sustainable, scalable ways to improve student learning—and at Public Impact, we see ways to improve learning well beyond those initial research findings. This is the moment for Opportunity Culture schools and districts—and those considering using Opportunity Culture models—to rapidly reach as many students as possible and maximize the innovative staffing of Opportunity Culture teams to dramatically boost student results.