#3. How Opportunity Culture® Redesigns Help Address Teacher Shortages

Principal Jeremy Baugh greets students as they arrive at Lew Wallace Elementary School.

What if you could improve student outcomes even in a time of rising teacher shortages? Many schools and districts report feeling stuck on the hamster wheel of trying to fill all their open positions—a struggle that has been worsening for years. Listen to this recording of our post about the solution that could take principals out of chronic emergency hiring mode, and how two principals have used that solution. The end of the recording includes the post’s two sidebars, or listen to them separately, below.

How Opportunity Culture® Redesigns Help Address Teacher Shortages

Sidebar: What These Pipeline-Building Roles Look Like

Sidebar: Effects of Class-Size Reductions

Read the full post here.

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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...