How We Help Districts, CMOs, and Schools

We work closely with your district/CMO design leader to ensure that principals and other leaders understand the Opportunity Culture concepts and design process.

We facilitate a series of sessions to guide your team of district/CMO leaders in establishing Opportunity Culture parameters and processes. Our team provides tools to aid decision making, lessons learned, and examples from other sites, and provides analysis and recommendations based on your local context.

We facilitate a series of sessions to help your school design teams clarify their goals for Opportunity Culture implementation and construct school plans and schedules to meet those objectives. This work includes financial analyses to ensure that school plans are sustainably designed within current budgets.

We provide extensive recruitment and selection support and tools, and train district/CMO personnel on the behavioral event interview technique to select candidates who display the competencies needed for success in these valuable, high-potential roles. We also publicize job openings to encourage those interested in Opportunity Culture roles to apply to your district.

We provide summer and school-year professional learning sessions to help Opportunity Culture educators prepare for success in their new roles and school models, and address in a timely fashion topics and needs likely to arise throughout the year.

We conduct site visits during the first year of implementation to interview staff in a variety of roles. We share our findings with school leaders and provide coaching sessions to help them strengthen their school’s implementation.

At a minimum, we assess student and teacher outcomes and conduct school staff surveys, and share our findings with district/CMO and school personnel to help improve implementation. Our data analysis team can also customize a deeper data analysis at your request.

Our online portal allows us to provide you with a virtual planning and communications platform to support essential activities, give rapid, personalized feedback on implementation, ease the collection of data for analysis of outcomes, and provide educators with curated information and resources..

After initial design, districts/CMOs and schools can maintain access to the School Excellence Portal’s premium resources and quality monitoring tools for a low cost. Public Impact and our national funders invested in this resource to help you ensure long-term strong student learning outcomes and educator satisfaction.

Educators get initial training for their new roles in professional learning sessions led by Public Impact and strong Opportunity Culture teacher-leaders, and continue to develop their leadership and instructional skills in sessions throughout the year.

Through webinars, videos, written resources, and occasional community of practice opportunities, we help Opportunity Culture educators connect with peers in roles like theirs within their site and across the country.