November 21, 2011 - Public Impact®'s co-director Emily Ayscue Hassel is named one of 21 teacher leaders in the inaugural class of the Aspen Teacher Leader Fellows program. This fellowship "is designed to cultivate and support a cohort of teacher leaders – including...
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Excellent Teachers & Digital Learning – Best Together
November 17, 2011 - Digital instruction paired with excellent teachers has enormous potential to fuel student learning. Though some observers pit technology against teachers, this report by co-directors Bryan C. Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel proposes that “digital...
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.
An Opportunity Culture® for Teaching and Learning
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, explaining why they should advocate for new school models and policies that support an Opportunity Culture.
Career Paths That Respect Teachers
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.
Teacher Pay & Career Advancement
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 steps. This brief explains the ways schools can offer sustainably funded career advancement and higher pay to teachers, while reaching more students with excellent teaching.
Using Teacher Data
This report, first published for the PIE Network’s Sixth Annual Policy Summit, offers seven strategies for policymakers who are ready to create the policy changes to leverage, reward, retain, and attract excellent teachers.
Financial Planning Summary
The financial planning summary provides an overview of the ways that schools and their teachers can simultaneously reach more students with excellent teaching, expand teachers’ career opportunities, and sustainably fund higher pay and other priorities.
Model Summaries
What can schools do, now, to reach many more students with excellent teachers year after year and help all teachers improve and contribute to excellence? This report provides brief descriptions of more than 20 school models that extend excellent teachers’ reach by using job redesign, technology, or both.
Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction
In Fordham’s new book Education Reform for the Digital Era, Bryan C. Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel’s opening chapter proposes that “digital education needs excellent teachers and that a first-rate teaching profession needs digital education.”