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...
Opportunity Culture® Advanced Teaching Roles Info Session
This brief webinar presents an overview of Opportunity Culture® school staffing models and explains how North Carolina school districts can include these research-proven models in their Advanced Teach Roles grant applications. To learn more about how Public Impact® can support districts with their ATR applications, see here.
How to Avoid K–12 Scale Fail
In K–12, decades of reforms have produced vanishing outcomes. Instructional methods and materials with eye-popping results in small studies fizzle out when scaled. Then, true believers double down on intensive teacher training and coaching to get their reform “done...
May 2025 Newsletter: Step Up to the Plate with Summer PD!
Hear what educators say about the partial-release Multi-Classroom Leader® role in our new video; hear Bryan Hassel and Kendall King of Public Impact® on the Learning Can’t Wait podcast; learn how we can help North Carolina districts apply for ATR grants; register for district-level and school-level design workshops AND summer professional learning for educators; plus the latest on certification, the portal, and tools you need now—all in the May 2025 Opportunity Culture® newsletter!
Why Educators Like the Partial-Release Team Leader Role
Districts and schools love the Multi-Classroom Leader® role, in which a teacher with a record of student growth leads a small teaching team. But which version of the role should they choose, full-release or partial-release?
#16. Reset for Success: How Midland ISD Revamped Teaching Teams for Results
When Superintendent Stephanie Howard came to Midland ISD in the Permian Basin of Texas, she knew what success with Opportunity Culture® teaching team models should look like, after working with them in neighboring Ector County ISD as a deputy superintendent. Although Midland ISD was using these teams as well, several Opportunity Culture® fundamentals weren’t being followed. Howard and Jessie Garcia, who came to Midland from Ector County as well, took a year to do a complete reset—an effort now paying off in learning growth for students, sustainable higher pay for teacher-leaders that can reach six figures, and stronger teacher support and retention. Hear how they did it in our latest audio piece.
Opportunity Culture® Portal Tour
Bryan Hassel, co-president of Public Impact®, leads a 2-minutes virtual tour of our online design and professional learning portal for educators, with visits to the Design, Learn, Monitor and Tools rooms.