#1. An Opportunity Culture® Principal Reflects

Jenny O’Meara talks with students at Phillips Middle School, where she served as principal.

February 25, 2022

In this first Opportunity Culture® Audio piece, we hear from Jenny O’Meara, who until 2021 served as a principal for a middle school using Opportunity Culture® roles. O’Meara worked in Edgecombe County Public Schools in a rural part of North Carolina, which has taken its Opportunity Culture® implementation district-wide. After stepping away from her principalship, she sat for an interview about her Opportunity Culture® experience, including reflections on working with her school’s first multi-classroom leader, or MCL, and valuable lessons to share with current principals.

An Opportunity Culture® Principal Reflects

Principal Jenny O’Meara Bonus Clip

Useful links:

Keep Learning

#15. How Small Groups Led to Big Middle School Math Growth

Team Reach Teacher Brian Tavenner™ meets with his Reach Associate™ paraprofessional, Braden Robertson. Math Team Reach Teacher™ Brian Tavenner discusses his wholehearted belief in the power of extensive small-group instruction to improve all students’ outcomes and the...

#14. Becoming a Student Growth State Leader: Lessons from Winchester

Teaching team leader, Brandi Shirley, says working with students in small groups builds their confidence. For the 2023–24 school year, Winchester Public Schools had student learning growth results to celebrate: Their seventh-grade math students were number 1 in the...