Opportunity Culture® News and Views
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 districts making six-figure teacher pay a reality, without making them wait decades to reach that point?
What’s an affordable, speedy way to design new team-based teaching that gets results?
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...
Master Team Reach Teacher™ Macey Williams tutors a small group of students at Lucama Elementary in Wilson County, North Carolina, while Reach Associate™ Joy Mosely works with other students in the back of the classroom. Nearly any school can dramatically increase...
The experiences K-12 offers student teachers are a quality hodgepodge, too few people can afford to enter teaching, and students need results right now. States and school systems should add residencies or apprenticeships that prepare aspiring teachers to teach with...
In K–12, decades of reforms have produced vanishing outcomes. Instructional methods and materials with eye-popping results in small studies fizzle out when scaled. Then, true believers double down on intensive teacher training and coaching to get their reform “done...
Our nation could reverse and completely recover from student learning slides with three moves: 1. Embed small-group tutoring in regular classrooms by boosting the time all adults spend on it for all students. 2. Spread accountable teacher-leader roles reserved for...
Out today: Public Impact Co-President Bryan Hassel and Senior Vice President Kendall King joined the Learning Can't Wait podcast, sharing the background, results, and new possibilities of the Opportunity Culture initiative. To get motivated about giving every student...
There's a lot to read about in the latest newsletter! Check out the recap of the latest Opportunity Culture® data--big results showing how these roles outpace others in learning growth. We highlight the great things happening in Midland ISD, a Texas district in the...
When Superintendent Stephanie Howard came to Midland ISD in the Permian Basin of Texas, she knew what success with Opportunity Culture® teaching team models should look like, after working with them in neighboring Ector County ISD as a deputy superintendent. Although Midland ISD was using these teams as well, several Opportunity Culture® fundamentals weren’t being followed.
I talked with Howard and Jessie Garcia, who also worked with the models in Ector County, about how they led Midland through a complete implementation reset—an effort now paying off in learning growth for students, sustainable higher pay for teacher-leaders that can reach six figures, and stronger teacher support and retention. Hear how they did it in our latest audio piece—and don’t miss the bonus “go big or go home” clip from Superintendent Howard!
Thanks to EdNC.org this week for publishing two op-eds by the leaders of The Innovation Project (TIP) and Public Impact, focused on exciting district strategic staffing collaboration in North Carolina. Photo courtesy of The Innovation Project Photo courtesy of The...