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Get Your Teaching Team Superpower: Cohesive Lesson Planning

October 17, 2024

How can teaching teams activate the superpower that is collaborative, cohesive lesson planning? If you’re a teaching team leader, how can you guide your team through productive planning meetings that create cohesive instruction for all the team’s students? If you’re on a teaching team, how can you get the most out of planning meetings, and help ensure great instruction across the team?

This two-part webinar series, led by two team leaders with a record of producing student learning growth, will help you be a hero for your students with powerful plans and a roadmap and resources to carry them out. Alex Tobin of Thomasville City Schools and Tameka Rover-Brown of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools will show you how, whether you use a scripted curriculum or bake yours up from scratch—or both. Useful for all educators, but especially for those at the elementary level, these quick-tip sessions will leave you powered up and ready to teach.

Your New Tool to Reach All Students: Meet the New Opportunity Culture® Portal

October 3, 2024

Watch this demo of the portal’s features that help you scale up school staffing design and strengthen implementation. Our team members will walk you through the various “rooms” of the portal to help you envision how this tool reduces capacity challenges that might be hampering your district’s effort to reach all students with excellent instruction.

Every Educator Needs a Coach: Three Keys to Get There

July 1, 2024

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.

From Reflection to Planning to Launch: A 3-Part Series on How Educators Prep for a New Year

April 30, 2024

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.

Introduction to Opportunity Culture® Models + Residency

May 24, 2022

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.