Opportunity Culture® News: Summer Newsletter, Remotely Located Teacher Leadership

by | June 7, 2019

By Paola Gilliam, June 7, 2019

As the school year wraps up and summer planning begins, check out these new and noteworthy posts about Opportunity Culture® resources, schools, and educators.

Summer Opportunity Culture® Newsletter

We publish a quarterly newsletter for educators full of resources, tools, news about Opportunity Culture®, and columns by Opportunity Culture® educators. The just-published latest edition includes:

  • Summer planning tools for multi-classroom leaders and principals, including action planners, organizational chart templates, and sample agendas
  • Congratulations to the 2019-20 Opportunity Culture® Fellows!
  • An Indianapolis multi-classroom leader and former Opportunity Culture® Fellow’s column highlights her Opportunity Culture® advocacy before an Indiana Senate committee
  • Yearlong, well-paid teacher residencies in an Opportunity Culture®—our latest publication explains how this is possible, and why it’s valuable!

Opportunity Culture® News

Opportunity Culture® Fellowship Includes Three Edgecombe County Educators*: The Rocky Mount Telegram reports on the newest fellows from Edgecombe County Public Schools, part of the national cohort of 15 fellows. Casandra Cherry, a multi-classroom leader at Phillips Middle School, Amy Pearce, a multi-classroom leader at North Edgecombe High School, and Jenny O’Meara, principal of Phillips Middle School, were selected as Opportunity Culture® Fellows. “They are outstanding educators who care deeply about the success of every child,” said Erin Swanson, director of innovation for Edgecombe County Public Schools.

Indianapolis Multi-Classroom Leader® Selected for Relay Graduate School Leadership Program: Multi-Classroom Leader® Mark Humphrey of URBAN ACT Academy at Washington Irving 14 was selected for The Mind Trust’s third cohort of school leaders to attend Relay’s National Principals Academy Fellowship.

Opportunity Culture® in Arkansas: News article highlights Lincoln Middle School’s update on Opportunity Culture® plans.

Remotely Located Multi-Classroom Leadership: This semester, The College Board and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) joined with Public Impact®’s Opportunity Culture® initiative to test the remotely located Multi-Classroom Leadership model. Midway through the semester, Sharon Kebschull Barrett, vice president of editorial services & communications at Public Impact®, checked in to hear early impressions of the pilot’s benefits and challenges in this piece published on EducationNC.

*Article no longer available online.

Note: Public Impact® and Opportunity Culture® are registered trademarks; Multi-Classroom Leader®, Multi-Classroom Leadership™, and MCL™ are trademarked terms, registration pending.

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