Opportunity Culture® Design in North Carolina
Design continues to spread in pioneering state
North Carolina districts have been using Opportunity Culture® design since its inception, beginning with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in 2013, which quickly achieved strong learning and teacher satisfaction results and rapidly expanded its use to now include 177 of its 184 schools.
Many North Carolina districts won state Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR) grants for design and early implementation costs; since 2016, over 70% of districts—and 83% of schools—receiving Advanced Teaching Roles funds have used Opportunity Culture® (OC®) staffing designs in their applications.
North Carolina schools that received Certified Opportunity Culture School® status at level 1 and above, meaning they followed a set of design standards correlated with student learning growth, outpaced schools that used other Advanced Teaching Roles designs or had no ATR designs.
Schools Using OC® Design Outpace Others in Learning Growth
% NC Title I Schools Exceeding Growth, 2024–25 and 2025–26 Average
% Average Team Leader Pay Supplement For More Than a Decade
Teaching team leaders in the Multi-Classroom Leader® role receive a 20% pay supplement in North Carolina, on average, funded within regular, recurring budgets.
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