What could you do in an Opportunity Culture®? In a new video, teachers in Opportunity Culture® schools tell how their roles let them: --Reach more students with great teaching --Lead other teachers without leaving teaching—“the best of both worlds” --Give and get...
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Opportunity Culture® Voices on Video
New Video: Using Opportunity Culture® Roles to Support Science of Reading-Based Instruction The science of reading has “come alive” at Lucama Elementary, in North Carolina’s Wilson County Schools, after the principal and her team of Multi-Classroom Leaders led the use...
Project L.I.F.T. Videos Tell Their Opportunity Culture® Story
Do you know teachers eager for a job full of opportunities to reach more students on empowered, teacher-led teams, and to earn more–potentially a lot more? Watch short videos about Project L.I.F.T.’s implementation of Opportunity Culture school models here and here. Project L.I.F.T. is hiring now for the 2014-15 school year.
Charlotte’s Project L.I.F.T. zone of high-need schools was the nation’s first pilot of Opportunity Culture school models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within budget.
Teachers get on-the-job development led by outstanding peers who are responsible for their teams’ improvement and student outcomes. L.I.F.T is also reaching out to Teach for America alumni who want to stay in the classroom and advance their careers while continuing to teach. TFA has been a critical source of teaching staff in these traditionally hard-to-staff schools.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is scaling up its Opportunity Culture schools as part of its Student Success by Design initiative. Nearly half of the district’s schools are expected to adopt these models by 2017–18. Each school has its own design team of teachers and administrators who work within the five Opportunity Culture Principles to select and combine models and determine implementation details that reflect the goals, values, and needs of each school. The overarching goals: 1) reach far more students with excellent teaching, every year, and 2) provide their teachers with outstanding, sustainably funded career advancement and development opportunities.
The district’s schools outside the L.I.F.T. zone will soon be recruiting for similar positions.
How can your district or organization help schools build an Opportunity Culture? Look throughout OpportunityCulture.org for information and free tools.
Don’t forget to check out L.I.F.T.’s videos to see how teachers, administrators, and kids feel about it.
Video Part 1: Paying Teachers More—Within Budget (4:06)
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...
How Small-Group Instruction Improves Teacher Effectiveness
Team Reach Teacher™ Brian Tavenner of Daniel Morgan Middle School in Winchester, Virginia, says pulling four or five kids at a time into small groups allows him to work with more kids and be more effective with his time.
Why Small-Group Instruction is Worth the Effort
Working with kids in small groups takes more time and effort, but it allows you to see what they truly know and don’t know, says Team Reach Teacher™ Brian Tavenner of Daniel Morgan Middle School in Winchester, Virginia.
#15. How Small Groups Led to Big Middle School Math Growth
Math Team Reach Teacher™ Brian Tavenner discusses his wholehearted belief in the power of extensive small-group instruction to improve all students’ outcomes and the difference it makes in how he works with student learning data. He delves into reflections and how small groups work in his middle school classes, with 50 students split in half through Reach Associate™ support.
Get Your Teaching Team Superpower: Cohesive Lesson Planning
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
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.
Opportunity Culture® Staffing Design Explained
Opportunity Culture® Staffing DesignA Before and After ExplanationBefore and After Opportunity Culture® Staffing Design Click the play button below to watch this brief explanation of how Opportunity Culture® staffing design works.