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Summer 2020 Newsletter
The summer 2020 edition of our newsletter for Opportunity Culture educators includes an announcement about new Opportunity Fellows, tools and resources for teaching at-home during COVID-19, summer planning resources, stories from Opportunity Culture educators, and more. Read the summer 2020 newsletter here.
3 Model Options Give Schools Budget-Neutral Plans, Schedules, Roles for Partial School Closures
By Public Impact, May 15, 2020
Districts and schools are confronting the learning loss caused by missed school time so far. Opportunity Culture schools—90 percent of which are Title I—have a special responsibility and opportunity to reverse that learning loss with the same method they’ve used for years: highly connective, high-standards instruction that helps more students achieve high-growth learning. Multi-Classroom Leadership by teachers with a high-growth track record is the foundation.
What can that look like if some students and teachers need to stay home, or if schools open, then shut, in waves in the coming school year? Read more…
How NC Districts Handle Closures, and Next Steps—New Database From Public Impact® and EdNC
By Public Impact, April 24, 2020
To understand how North Carolina’s 115 school districts are dealing with school closures, Public Impact and EducationNC joined forces to develop the NC District Response to COVID-19 School Closures Database. Read more about the database below, as well as an opinion piece on what the data tell us so far from Public Impact’s co-presidents. Read more…
Can I Really Keep at This? What Kept One Great Teacher in the Classroom
By Steven Kennedy; first published by EducationNC, February 24, 2020
Opportunity Culture kept me from leaving the classroom.
When our first child was born, my wife and I discussed our goals. There was just no way I was going to be able to support our family by being a teacher in North Carolina. It wasn’t what we wanted our family life to look like. Read more…
Winter 2018 Newsletter
The Winter 2018 edition of our newsletter for Opportunity Culture educators includes an announcement of the 2018–19 Opportunity Culture Fellows; facts about the research on Multi-Classroom Leadership; a spotlight on Opportunity Culture results in North Carolina; plus recent publications, news stories from around the country, and free tools and resources that you need now! Read the Winter 2018 newsletter here.
Fall 2018 Newsletter
The Fall 2018 edition of our newsletter for Opportunity Culture educators includes a look at what makes the multi-classroom leadership role different; an interview with Principal Donnell Cannon from Edgecombe County, N.C.; Opportunity Culture news stories from around the country; and links to free tools and resources to use now! Read the Fall 2018 newsletter here.
3X for All
Instead of just trying to recruit more great teachers, what if we could reach dramatically more children with the great teachers we already have? This report was the foundational document for an Opportunity Culture, now being implemented in districts across the U.S. based on this report’s original vision, along with research and Opportunity Culture educators’ experiences.
Shooting for Stars
When high-performing teachers across the country leave our classrooms each year, 750,000 children find themselves assigned to a less-effective teacher in each subsequent year. How could education leaders reduce this outflow? In this report, we examine the research and case studies outside education to reveal four key strategies organizations successfully use to boost high-performer retention.
Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance
A recent national push to use performance evaluations for critical personnel decisions has highlighted the shortcomings of our current systems and increased the urgency to improve them dramatically. This report, written with support from The Joyce Foundation, summarizes best practices and research from other sectors for education leaders who want accurate, reliable, and meaningful information about educators’ performance.