Press Releases

March 30, 2020, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— Noting the ongoing, innovative work of Opportunity Culture educators who had little time to prepare for COVID-19 at-home teaching and learning, Public Impact, which created and leads the national Opportunity Culture initiative, has released the annual updates to its Opportunity Culture dashboard. Read the full press release…

December 18, 2019, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE— With support from the Memphis Education Fund, 12 Memphis schools from several charter organizations will implement Opportunity Culture models in 2020–21 in an effort to improve student achievement by extending the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within schools’ recurring budgets. Read the full press release…

ODESSA and MIDLAND, Texas— Two Texas districts—Ector County ISD and Midland ISD—will implement Opportunity Culture with paid teacher residencies in partnership with the University of Texas Permian Basin (UT Permian Basin). UT Permian Basin and its partner schools are the newest members in the University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation (US PREP). Read the full press release…

June 3, 2019, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— Public Impact announces the fifth cohort of Opportunity Culture Fellows, made up of 10 Opportunity Culture multi-classroom leaders and 5 principals who have achieved strong results and been leaders in their schools and districts. Read the full press release…

March 14, 2019, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— After a pilot year at North Little Rock Middle School, the Arkansas Department of Education has expanded its Opportunity Culture pilot to three more districts. Opportunity Culture schools use new roles—based on the cornerstone role of Multi-Classroom Leadership—to reach many more students with excellent, personalized instruction. Read the full press release…

March 6, 2019, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— Public Impact, which created and leads the national Opportunity Culture initiative, updates the Opportunity Culture dashboard annually and today released the latest results from 2018–19, showing that student learning continues to benefit, and teachers want to keep and grow Opportunity Culture. Read the full press release…

January 31, 2019, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— In the latest round of funding for the state’s Advanced Teaching Roles pilot, the North Carolina State Board of Education awarded grants to three districts that will implement Opportunity Culture roles—Halifax County and Hertford County in eastern North Carolina and Lexington City Schools in Davidson County. Read the full press release…

December 13, 2018, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— In 2017–18, while only 27 percent of non-Opportunity Culture schools in North Carolina exceeded student learning growth targets, nearly double that—53 percent—of Opportunity Culture schools exceeded growth, Public Impact announced. Read the full press release…

April 19, 2018, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Under Superintendent Sharon Contreras, Guilford County Schools has joined the national Opportunity Culture initiative to extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within schools’ recurring budgets. Read the full press release…

January 11, 2018, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Students in classrooms of team teachers led by Opportunity Culture “multi-classroom leaders” showed sizeable academic gains, according to a new study from the American Institutes for Research and the Brookings Institution. Read the full press release…