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October 17, 2012 - In his Ed Week blog post, Tom Vander Ark presents 10 strategies “that offer state, district, network, and philanthropic leaders leverage in their efforts to encourage more deeper learning, ” including the Opportunity Culture® initiative’s effort to...

October 10, 2012 - The Center for High Impact Philanthropy recently interviewed Bryan C. Hassel of Public Impact® and Ellen Moir of The New Teacher Center about how technology can transform teaching. Read the interview here.

September 28, 2012 - Thanks to increasingly meaningful teacher evaluations, we know far more than ever about the effectiveness of teachers in public school classrooms. What should states, districts, and schools do with that knowledge? In policy debates, much of the...

Watch this space for an updated motiongraphic, based on the experiences of the first pilot schools to implement their own Opportunity Culture®s, showing the importance of models that let teams led by excellent teachers reach many more students, and let all teachers...

July 24, 2012 - This Huffington Post article highlights Public Impact®’s recently published financial analyses of three reach extension school models. The analyses demonstrate how, by redesigning teacher roles to allow excellent teachers to reach more students,...

May 10, 2012 - Public Impact®, a national education organization, announces its selection of the first implementation site in its initiative to extend the reach of excellent teachers and build an Opportunity Culture® for teachers and students: Charlotte-Mecklenburg...

May 1, 2012 - Public Impact® has published 10 new school models that use job redesign and technology to extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within budget. The 10 models are part of a larger set of 20+ model summaries published by...

April 27, 2012 - 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.” In the...

March 38, 2012 - In a collection of essays, Education Sector asked commentators to address a set of dilemmas facing the nation in the current reform moment. Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel tackled one: Will the Common Core and new teacher evaluation systems...

January 27, 2012 - In this Getting Smart blog post, Tom Vander Ark cites Public Impact®’s Opportunity at the Top, highlighting that even though we can’t put a great teacher in every classroom in school systems as they exist now, we can leverage technology and talent...