Welcome to our virtual visit to two Opportunity Culture districts!
Public Impact, which founded the national Opportunity Culture initiative, periodically collaborates with Opportunity Culture districts to host site visits, which allow visitors to see Opportunity Culture roles in action. The videos on this page come from the daylong site visit hosted in April 2022 by two neighboring Texas school districts, Midland and Ector County—to whom we offer many thanks for their time and hospitality! Their generous educators allowed site visit participants into their classrooms to see how multi-classroom leaders and their teaching teams, which included Opportunity Culture reach associates and teacher residents, work together to improve student outcomes and teacher experiences.
For more information about the Opportunity Culture initiative or future in-person site visits, contact us!
Opportunity Culture Site Visit, Permian Basin, April 28, 2022
The videos below offer a condensed version of the busy site visit day, including comments from both superintendents, words of introduction from school principals, classroom footage, and question-and-answer time with several Opportunity Culture educators. (Our apologies that some audio quality is not up to the standard of Public Impact’s other videos, due to our efforts to avoid disrupting the experience for the on-site audience.)
For a glossary of terms used throughout the day, see here.
Opening Session: Introduction to the Districts
Opening Session: Introduction to the Districts
This video includes introductions from:
- Troy Smith, Assistant Vice President, Public Impact
- Chris Hightower, Director of Opportunity Culture, Midland ISD
- Jessie Garcia, Talent Development Director, Ector County ISD
- Dr. Larry Daniels, Dean, College of Education, UT Permian Basin
- Dr. Anjelica Ramsey, Superintendent, Midland ISD
- Dr. Scott Muri, Superintendent, Ector County ISD
Elementary School Visits
Secondary School Visits
School Q&A Session Topics
Glossary of terms you will hear in these videos
ECISD: Ector County Independent School District
MISD: Independent School District
MCL: Multi-classroom leader, the foundational Opportunity Culture role. A multi-classroom leader is a teacher with track record of high-growth student learning who leads lesson planning, data analysis, and instructional changes for a small teaching team. The MCL observes, gives feedback, and coaches team teachers, co-teaches with and models instructional delivery for them, and continues to teach some portion of the time. MCLs may be designated as MCL I or II depending on the team size they lead.
For many more videos about the Opportunity Culture initiative, see here; for videos for educators focused on key elements of instructional leadership and excellence, see here.
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