By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, March 16, 2018
Public Impact analyzes the dashboard results so we can continually improve Opportunity Culture materials and our work with schools and districts. Our goals are to reach all students with excellent teaching and all teachers with outstanding career opportunities and support. Read More…
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Opportunity Culture® News and Views
Finding Inspiration Again Through Teacher Leadership
By Candace Butler; first published by EducationNC, February 23, 2018
“I wanted to inspire more; I wanted to reach more. How could I take this ‘inspiring gig’ on the road?” Candace Butler found her passion for teaching renewed by becoming a multi-classroom leader—leading her teaching team through challenges with repeatedly renewed inspiration. Read More…
When Teachers Leave Midyear, Instructional Teacher-Leadership Keeps Classes Strong
By Molly Whelan; first published by EducationNC,
“You’re ensuring that every kid has access to high-quality instruction.” With Multi-Classroom Leadership, principals and teachers can face the inevitable challenge of losing teachers midyear. Multi-Classroom Leader® Molly Whelan interviews Principal Erica Jordan-Thomas about the MCL model. Read More…
Opportunity Culture®: In the News, On the Radio–and a Milken Award!
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, January 26, 2018
Multi-classroom leaders have been in the spotlight this week! Read More…
Brookings-AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture®
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, January 11, 2018
Students in classrooms of team teachers led by “multi-classroom leaders” showed sizeable academic gains, according to a new study from the American Institutes for Research and the Brookings Institution. Read More…
Beyoncé and Teacher Pay: TEDx Talk Tells All!
What does Beyoncé have to do with great teachers? Ranson IB Middle School Principal Erica Jordan-Thomas wants you to know: “There are Beyoncé educators in every single school building dropping number 1 albums year after year in the form of mind-blowing results with...
Days in the Life: Video, Vignette Show the Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader®
When Opportunity Culture® multi-classroom leaders describe their jobs—providing intensive, on-the-job coaching, support for planning, and data analysis leadership to a team of teachers while continuing to teach students, too—they hear the same question: How do you fit...
Opportunity Culture® Voices: From Action Plan to Teacher of the Year — in One Year
This column is by Stacie Bunn and was published on EdNC.org, November 9, 2017 Editor’s Note: Stacie Bunn is an Opportunity Culture® Fellow. Learn more about the Opportunity Culture® initiative here. In 2012, after 15 years of classroom experience and a year as...
From Action Plan to Teacher of the Year—in One Year
By Staci Bunn; first published by EducationNC, November 9, 2017
“You didn’t give up. And you listened a lot—you understood where I was coming from.” Multi-Classroom Leader® Stacie Bunn interviews her team teacher, Expanded-Impact Teacher Kenyetta Davenport, about how Bunn’s support helped her zoom from being put on an action plan to becoming teacher of the year. Read More…
Opportunity Culture® + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Statewide Plan
To kick off a statewide Arkansas initiative to reach all students with excellent teaching, North Little Rock Middle School will begin creating an Opportunity Culture® for teachers and students this fall, using teams led by multi-classroom leaders—experienced,...