The U.S. spends more per capita on K–12 education than almost every other country on Earth. Yet achievement gaps persist, and we have fallen behind globally.
Why? Only 25 percent of classes are taught by excellent teachers. With an excellent teacher versus an average teacher, students make about an extra half-year of progress every year—closing achievement gaps fast, leaping ahead to become honors students, and surging forward like top international peers.
Unfortunately, existing strategies alone will never fill our 3 million classrooms with teachers as good as today’s top 25 percent. Schools can fix this by extending the reach of excellent teachers using job redesign and technology.
New school models also create career paths that offer all teachers career advancement opportunities. Advancement allows greater impact on children and more pay—within budget.
We call this an Opportunity Culture.

A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning
Full Report [pdf]
Blended learning that combines digital instruction with live, accountable teachers holds unique promise to improve student outcomes dramatically.

Why does every child need consistent access to excellent teachers, and how can we, today, extend the reach of the excellent teachers our nation already has? Public Impact teamed up with designers at Column Five to develop this infographic with the answers. It illustrates four ways school can use job redesign and technology to put excellent [...]

How America’s Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great
Executive Summary [pdf] | Full Report [pdf] | Two-Page Brief [pdf]
Our nation is squandering one of its most important resources—our best teachers—and children are paying the price.

Extending the Reach of Education’s Best
Full Report [pdf]
Instead of just trying to recruit more great teachers, what if we could reach dramatically more children with the great teachers we already have?

Moving Toward a Highly Paid, High-Impact Profession
Two-page Report (pdf)
This two-page report speaks directly to excellent teachers and those aspiring to excellence to introduce the concepts of an Opportunity Culture and its benefits for teachers and staff.

More Pay & Time to Collaborate, Lead, Reach More Students
Two-page Report (pdf)
If you are an excellent teacher or one who aspires to excellence, this two-page report explains how schools can use redesigned jobs and career paths to help you stay enthusiastic about teaching, reach more students, and lead your peers, for more pay.

A Leader’s Guide to Sustainably Funded Excellence Teacher Pay & Career Advancement [pdf] As new evaluation systems begin to enable school and district leaders to identify their excellent teachers, states and school systems are looking ahead to the next step and asking: Now that we know who our great teachers are, how can we give [...]
May 15, 2013
In A Better Blend, we explained how schools can boost student outcomes from digital learning by combining it with staffing models that allow excellent teachers to both reach more students and help … [Read More...]
May 10, 2013
Opportunity Culture recent appearances in the press and elsewhere: The full guidelines for the latest round of the Investing in Innovation (i3) grants are out, and they include strong … [Read More...]
May 9, 2013
At Public Impact, we and our partners provide districts and charter schools with support in implementing models to extend excellent teachers’ reach based on the Opportunity Culture Reach Extension … [Read More...]
May 8, 2013
As Public Impact focuses on its Opportunity Culture initiative—reaching more students with excellent teachers, making sustainably higher pay a reality, and providing job-embedded … [Read More...]
May 8, 2013
As Public Impact continues our Opportunity Culture quest to reach more students with great teachers, we’re seeing both district and charter schools come on board. In the charter sector, a … [Read More...]
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