Opportunity Culture

Paola Gilliam

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June 2023 Newsletter

The June newsletter includes updates from the Opportunity Culture Dashboard; a welcome to new Opportunity Culture Sites; tools and resources; Opportunity Culture news, and more. Read the June 2023 newsletter here.

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Reimagining the teacher role: How some large and urban districts are enhancing appeal, addressing shortages

From CRPE, April 18, 2023, by Lisa Chu, Bree Dusseault, and Lydia Rainey

The exact cause of teacher shortages is still up for debate. Some experts argue that shortages are localized, while others say that the lack of teachers is due to low unemployment and other factors. Regardless, school systems face big challenges with their teacher workforce, including finding enough teacher candidates and retaining the teachers they have, as well as filling specialized positions. These big challenges require school systems to make big changes to the role of the teacher. This brief identifies eight categories of strategies that school systems are using to reimagine their teacher workforce, then assesses the extent to which large and urban districts have adopted these strategies. Read the report…

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April 2023 Newsletter

The April newsletter includes a new module for scalable, sustainable tutoring; new publications and blogs; tools and resources; Opportunity Culture news, and more. Read the April 2023 newsletter here.

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New Publications: How Strong District Opportunity Culture Leadership Helped Pave the Way for Low-Performing Schools to Succeed

By Public Impact, April 11, 2023

When Dr. Tina Lupton and Dr. Timisha Barnes-Jones joined the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Opportunity Culture implementation was happening in the midst of Covid. Lupton, the executive director of professional learning, and Barnes-Jones, the area superintendent for a network of 15 transformation schools, used their experience in other Opportunity Culture districts to help the schools make some adjustments. By the following year, three of those Opportunity Culture schools came off North Carolina’s “low-performing” list; nine of the 11 schools implementing Opportunity Culture models either met or exceeded the bar set by the state for expected student learning growth—results they attribute in part to these models.

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New Opportunity Culture Audio: Public Impact Module Helps Schools Create a Tutoring Culture

By Public Impact, April 11, 2023

Former Multi-Classroom Leader Okema Owens Simpson led the development of Public Impact’s on-demand module, Building a Scalable, Sustainable Tutoring Culture for All. In this podcast, Simpson provides an overview of the Multi-Classroom Leader role and the power of small-group, in-school tutoring through MCL teams, as a preview for watching the module and understanding our SIMPLE framework for building a tutoring culture. Listen here.

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Building a Tutoring Culture: On-Demand Module Live

By Public Impact, March 29, 2023

What is a scalable, sustainable tutoring culture, and how can schools build it? In our new on-demand module, we show how Opportunity Culture schools can create a tutoring culture when those in Multi-Classroom Leader roles guide their teams to maximize the impact of small-group teaching and tutoring for all students, with all available adults.

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How Opportunity Culture Models Aim to Increase Teacher Diversity

By Public Impact, March 10, 2023

As recent reports have highlighted, public schools face an ongoing need to increase educator diversity. Students of color make up more than 50 percent of public school enrollment, FutureEd reported, but 79 percent of the teaching force is white. How can Opportunity Culture models help?

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