By Molly Whelan; first published by EducationNC,
“You’re ensuring that every kid has access to high-quality instruction.” With Multi-Classroom Leadership, principals and teachers can face the inevitable challenge of losing teachers midyear. Multi-Classroom Leader® Molly Whelan interviews Principal Erica Jordan-Thomas about the MCL model. Read More…
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Opportunity Culture® News and Views
Opportunity Culture®: In the News, On the Radio–and a Milken Award!
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, January 26, 2018
Multi-classroom leaders have been in the spotlight this week! Read More…
Brookings-AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture®
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, January 11, 2018
Students in classrooms of team teachers led by “multi-classroom leaders” showed sizeable academic gains, according to a new study from the American Institutes for Research and the Brookings Institution. Read More…
Beyoncé and Teacher Pay: TEDx Talk Tells All!
What does Beyoncé have to do with great teachers? Ranson IB Middle School Principal Erica Jordan-Thomas wants you to know: “There are Beyoncé educators in every single school building dropping number 1 albums year after year in the form of mind-blowing results with...
Days in the Life: Video, Vignette Show the Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader®
When Opportunity Culture® multi-classroom leaders describe their jobs—providing intensive, on-the-job coaching, support for planning, and data analysis leadership to a team of teachers while continuing to teach students, too—they hear the same question: How do you fit...
Opportunity Culture® Voices: From Action Plan to Teacher of the Year — in One Year
This column is by Stacie Bunn and was published on EdNC.org, November 9, 2017 Editor’s Note: Stacie Bunn is an Opportunity Culture® Fellow. Learn more about the Opportunity Culture® initiative here. In 2012, after 15 years of classroom experience and a year as...
From Action Plan to Teacher of the Year—in One Year
By Staci Bunn; first published by EducationNC, November 9, 2017
“You didn’t give up. And you listened a lot—you understood where I was coming from.” Multi-Classroom Leader® Stacie Bunn interviews her team teacher, Expanded-Impact Teacher Kenyetta Davenport, about how Bunn’s support helped her zoom from being put on an action plan to becoming teacher of the year. Read More…
Opportunity Culture® + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Statewide Plan
To kick off a statewide Arkansas initiative to reach all students with excellent teaching, North Little Rock Middle School will begin creating an Opportunity Culture® for teachers and students this fall, using teams led by multi-classroom leaders—experienced,...
How My West Texas School Elevated Struggling Young Readers (and Their Teachers)
By Maina Cisneros; first published by The 74, June 19, 2017
“Finally, I had an aha moment! We had to unchain ourselves from our one-teacher-one-classroom setting.” After her school incorporates Opportunity Culture models, the boost in planning time and collaboration allow Multi-Classroom Leader® Maina Cisneros and her team to develop a small-group strategy to increase literacy—and great student growth follows. Read More…
Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale
For the growing number of Opportunity Culture® schools—and schools using accountable teacher leadership and other advanced teaching roles—Public Impact® provides a new suite of tools. They guide districts and schools to achieve excellence in teaching and learning with...