Many people contributed to the development and improvement of the school models and related materials on this website. In addition to the people listed below, hundreds of teachers and principals in Opportunity Culture schools have provided feedback we’ve incorporated into models and models tools. Any remaining flaws are our own. Participation does not indicate endorsement of any particular model, policy, or approach. Please help us improve the models. Share your ideas and feedback on our Feedback page.
The entire Public Impact team contributed input and review at various stages.
Teach Plus CEO Celine Coggins enabled us to exchange ideas with excellent teachers during model development. The Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows who helped us are:
Indianapolis: Sheila Akinleye, Karen Smith
Memphis: Brittany Clark
Boston: Karen McCarthy, Wendy Soref
Chicago: Michelle McFarland-McDaniels, Tracie Kenyon
Teachers from Educators4Excellence also shared their feedback with Public Impact’s model-building team.
Special thanks to Katherine Mackey of Innosight Institute for her particularly detailed review of early models.
Thanks also to each of the people below who contributed ideas and review at various stages of our model thinking and writing. This is a brilliant, thoughtful, and committed group of people, and we are grateful for their generosity of time and thought.
The Opportunity Culture Advisory Team (at time of initial publication of models, Spring 2012): Celine Coggins John Danner Alex Hernandez Michael Horn Karen Hawley Miles Talia Milgrom-Elcott Sydney Morris Marguerite Roza Ariela Rozman Gretchen Crosby Sims Jeff Wetzler |
Other Contributors and Reviewers: Cat Alexander Angela Baber Scott Benson Claire Fiddian-Green Todd Kern Tony Lewis John Luczak Sarah McClamroch Raegen Miller Lynn Olson Andy Rotherham Adam Rubin Steve Sandak Bryan Setser and team Elena Silva Tori Truscheit Bill Tucker Ed VanderTook Tom Vander Ark Julie Wright |