When schools and districts begin using Multi-Classroom Leader® teams, should they wade in, or dive in? Find out the answer by reading the September 2025 edition of our newsletter, featuring a podcast that reveals what district leaders have said over the past decade...
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#17. For Big Results, Go Big with Teaching Teams
When schools and districts begin using Multi-Classroom Leader® teams, should they wade in, or dive in? Hear what district leaders have said over the past decade on how best to improve student learning growth and teacher careers.
Superintendents, district leaders, principals, and team leaders from North Carolina’s Wilson County, Hertford County, and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County districts, as well as Winchester, Virginia, and Ector County and Midland districts in Texas—several of whom have Opportunity Culture® experience in multiple districts—discuss what worked for them.
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A classroom staffing model is improving outcomes for teachers and students
From EdNC, by Sergio Osnaya-Prieto, July 31, 2025
What would happen if schools changed the way they staffed a classroom? What if instead of the traditional method — one teacher leading a classroom — a whole team of teachers were available to support students?
Teacher-led teams are yielding “top-tier results nationally,” according to a press release from Public Impact, the Chapel Hill-based research firm that designed this Opportunity Culture model. More than a decade’s worth of data reveal the model produces additional student learning growth, better educator satisfaction rates, lower turnover and vacancy rates, and growing pay supplements.
“Teacher-led teams are essential to scaling excellent teaching to all students,” said Bryan Hassel, co-president of Public Impact and founder of the Opportunity Culture initiative. “Over 12 years, 10,000 educators in urban, rural, and suburban schools have used their voices to help us get this right for their students.”
Opportunity Culture® Models Perform Best Among School Staffing Initiatives
Opportunity Culture® staffing models, which create teacher-led teams, continue to produce top-tier results nationally, according to nearly a dozen years of data, Public Impact® reported today. The models reach larger numbers of students each year, produce substantial extra student learning growth, provide field-leading pay supplements, and achieve extremely high ratings in educator surveys. Districts examining turnover and vacancies have seen substantial declines. These results have held even as the model scales up nationally, unlike many school reform initiatives whose early results fade.
Opportunity Culture Models Perform Best Among School Staffing Initiatives
July 15, 2025, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Opportunity Culture® staffing models, which create teacher-led teams, continue to produce top-tier results nationally, according to nearly a dozen years of data. The models reach larger numbers of students each year, produce substantial extra student learning growth, provide field-leading pay supplements, and achieve extremely high ratings in educator surveys. Districts examining turnover and vacancies have seen substantial declines. These results have held even as the model scales up nationally, unlike many school reform initiatives whose early results fade.
Making 6-Figure Pay a Reality for Teachers
What are some Texas districts doing to make six-figure pay a reality for their teachers, well before the end of long careers? Read about the example from one district, Midland, in our senior VP Sharon Kebschull Barrett's op-ed in The 74. "Ask teachers how much their...
5 How-To’s for Education Strategies that Stick: June Newsletter
Our latest newsletter has questions--and answers! How can you reverse student learning slides in three steps ? Avoid K-12 scale fail? Stop wasting student teachers’ time and money? Add tutoring time for free? Right-size your tutoring groups? How are some Texas...
June 2025 Newsletter: 5 How-To’s—Education Strategies that Stick
How can you reverse student learning slides in three steps ? Avoid K-12 scale fail? Stop wasting student teachers’ time and money? Add tutoring time for free? Right-size your tutoring groups? Public Impact® Co-President Bryan Hassel offers advice in a recent series of short posts. Plus, how to make 6-figure educator pay a reality; staffing design workshops; virtual summer professional learning; tools for summer planning, and more in our June newsletter!
Are You Right-Sizing Your Tutoring Groups?
By Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan C. Hassel Adult-led, small-group tutoring adds huge learning growth for students, even in small doses weekly. But finding the right group size is tricky. Too large, and learning impact per student declines. Too small, and the number of...