For Opportunity Culture® Site Directors
Resources to help you maximize outcomes
Opportunity Culture® district leaders are crucial to their schools’ success with these models. See what’s happening in other districts and get new resources to support your work!
Introduction to School Staffing Design with Results:
Unlocking the 5 Opportunity Culture® Design Principles
Have educators new to schools using these models, or schools considering them? Our new professional learning session can help!
Your district’s educators can use PL funding for this live, virtual session, and receive certificates of completion that can be submitted for CEU licensure credit. See this registration page for more details!
WHAT’S HAPPENING
“Reflect to Prep” Webinar: Using This Year’s Results to Plan Ahead for the Next School Year
How do great educators pause to review the hits and misses of the current year to set themselves up for planning and launching the next year? In the first of our three-part, quick-tips series, excellent teaching team leaders will share how they both do this themselves...
Opportunity Culture® Information Session: Unique, Effective Staffing Design
March 2024 Newsletter: Free Educator Webinar for Testing Homestretch!
How can you use data to motivate students and teachers and celebrate learning growth? Our free 45-minute webinar has tips for teachers and teaching team leaders! Learn more in our March 2024 newsletter, which also includes a message from Shonaka Ellison of Public...
"[This model] is truly an innovative and immersive experience for educators to share their excellence and coach others, all while moving students in meaningful ways."
—Baltimore City Public Schools Teacher of the Year
"It’s something that I wish every school and every teacher and every student could experience."
—Elementary School educator in Multi-Classroom Leader™ role
"[Using these roles] really helps with teacher recruitment and retention—who wouldn’t want that level of support?"
—Elementary School principal
OUR SERVICES
Professional Learning
Our engaging, research-based, summer and school-year professional learning sessions are tailored for each educator role to help Multi-Classroom Leader™ teaching teams achieve dramatic learning gains with their students. We offer professional learning designed to build district leaders’ capacity to monitor and strengthen implementation.
Design and Implementation
For districts that have not yet scaled up Opportunity Culture® staffing design to all schools, our co-design options can help you achieve that goal. We offer ongoing implementation services such as monitoring, feedback, and surveys, to ensure systems get the results they want. Our online portal makes it easy to analyze and improve implementation.
Questions or feedback? Contact our team today!
How Opportunity Culture® Models Help Address Challenges
Staffing Shortages
Staffing shortages have plagued some schools for decades. Our staffing designs provide a solution that shifts schools out of emergency hiring mode—and boosts learning. Learn how Opportunity they address staffing shortages—with high-paying advanced roles, improved support for new teachers, and staffing models that do not require filling every teacher vacancy to ensure that students have access to excellent instruction.
Small-Group Tutoring
Maximize the research-proven power of tutoring through Multi-Classroom Leader™ teams. These teams, with a proven, accountable team leader—paired with rotational scheduling often used in our models—make it possible for schools to scale up effective small-group tutoring by paraprofessionals and team teachers, helping to reach all students with personalized attention. Our SIMPLE-TC™ professional learning series on creating a tutoring culture can help.
Paid Teacher Residencies
Schools using these models can build teacher pipelines through yearlong, sustainably paid teacher residencies. Residents play critical roles for students and teachers by serving on teaching teams while learning teaching skills from the excellent team leader and team teachers. Paid residencies also address the need for teacher candidates to earn income while obtaining degrees, lowering the barriers to entering the profession
STORIES OF OPPORTUNITY CULTURE® EDUCATORS
Educator Columns
From teacher-of-the-year to teacher resident, we share stories of educators from districts across the country. Whether in their own words or ours, their message rings clear—teachers love these roles!
Voices on Videos
Our team loves visiting schools, gathering voices of educators talking about their roles. Watch our extensive library of videos to see how these models transformed their schools.
Opportunity Culture® Audio
What have educators in Opportunity Culture® roles learned about successfully redesigning schools to reach all students with excellent teaching? Our audio pieces bring their advice to help confront some of the stickiest issues facing education.
RESOURCES JUST FOR YOU
More districts and charter school organizations—large and small, rural and urban—commit to using these models every year. See examples of these sites here!
RESOURCES FOR YOUR EDUCATORS
Instructional Leadership & Excellence Resources
When teachers and principals lead small teams, the whole school can achieve instructional excellence and a welcoming environment for all. We offer curated resources on the critical elements of instructional leadership and excellence for teachers and principals.
Teaching Reading Using the Science of Reading
Schools taking on a shift to instruction based on the science of reading can smooth the way with Multi-Classroom Leader™ teams. Schools can use the team roles to ease the burden for individual teachers while ensuring consistency and follow-through at every grade level.
Opportunity Culture® Newsletter
The newsletter, sent eight times per year, contains news, resources, and tools curated especially for educators in schools using these models. Be sure to subscribe to keep up with what’s happening in the community!