Opportunity Culture® Webinars

Using Opportunity Culture^® staffing models, small teaching teams aim to provide every educator with a great coach in the Multi-Classroom Leader® role. What can administrators do to support these teacher-leaders in their new coaching roles? This webinar presents three keys to achieving widespread but personalized coaching and a platform to support it. Special guest Casey Jackson of North Carolina’s Vance County Schools discusses her previous coaching experience as a team leader and her current role as a district administrator responsible for the success of educators in that role. She is joined by Krissy Fisher and Hannah Schuele of SchoolMint, creator of the SchoolMint Grow teacher coaching platform.

When great educators launch a new school year well, what was behind the scenes of that success? In this three-part webinar series, proven educators and teaching team leaders take viewers from the previous spring, when they review hits and misses, to using that data to set themselves up for planning and launching the next year. The series includes Part 1: Reflect to Prep, Part 2: Planning Ahead, and Part 3: From Plan to Launch.

As schools prepare for end-of-year testing, how can teachers and teaching team leaders use data to motivate students and teachers and celebrate learning growth? This 45-minute webinar was led by Erin Burns Mehigan, a former teacher-leader accountable for the learning results of the 500 students taught by her high school biology team, which produced dramatic leaps in learning growth and proficiency. She is joined by special guest Stevie Roper, leader of an elementary teaching team in a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Title I school that ranked 25th in all of North Carolina for student learning growth, and had the highest proficiency growth among all the district’s elementary schools. Mehigan presents several proven data-based strategies to prepare for the testing homestretch and discusses with Roper what she has used for success—and provides tips teachers can use any time of the year.

Featuring a panel of Opportunity Culture^® leaders, this webinar gives an overview of the Opportunity Culture^® initiative and highlights how Opportunity Culture^® models help strengthen teacher pipelines and address teacher shortages in Texas, which has led the way in establishing paid, yearlong Opportunity Culture^® teacher residencies. Dr. Sharon Shields, superintendent of La Vega Independent School District (ISD), Marlene Garcia Sauceda, Opportunity Culture^® director in Klein ISD, and Anne Erickson, chief people and innovation officer for Uplift Education, discuss why their sites joined the initiative and how Opportunity Culture^® educator roles are transforming teacher experiences and student learning, and answer participants’ questions about specifics of Opportunity Culture^® implementation.

This webinar offers an overview of Opportunity Culture teaching roles and features Principal Paul Travers of Guilford County Schools, Multi-Classroom Leader® Yolande Dixon of Vance County Schools, and teacher and former reach associate Delmonika Vick of Edgecombe County Public Schools answering participants’ questions about their roles.

In this webinar, Opportunity Culture Fellow Matthew How, principal of Ridge Road Elementary in North Little Rock School District, explores how school leaders—including administrators and multi-classroom leaders—can right the ship when teachers are unhappy, and use Opportunity Culture to create opportunities for distributed leadership and collaboration—and ultimately, happy and successful staff and students.

In this webinar, three excellent, experienced multi-classroom leaders detail how they support their teaching teams remotely, as their teams faced the extreme challenges of helping students through the trauma of a pandemic, racial violence, and protests while delivering excellent instruction—all while balancing their own stress and personal needs.