By Margaret High, December 20, 2019
Opportunity Culture kept growing in 2019 to bring excellent teaching to students and career opportunities to educators. Our 10 most-read posts in 2019 included educator columns, new districts, the hot topic of the science of reading, teaching residencies, and more. Read more…
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Building Team Cohesion: Opportunity Culture® Fellows Share Strategies
By Margaret High, October 30, 2019
How can multi-classroom leaders (MCLs) build the cohesion of their teaching teams? A panel of five Opportunity Culture Fellows tackled this question—a hot topic among MCLs—with suggestions that focused on the joy of team leadership as well as how to address challenges with team members.
“My two things are genuinely caring about the people as individuals and as teachers. …And then really not being a know-it-all,” one panelist said. “I’m not coming into the classroom to make you into me. I’m coming in here to make you a better version of you.”
To Teach Reading Right, Understand the Science of Reading
By Margaret High, October 17, 2019
As CEO of the Mississippi-based Barksdale Reading Institute, Kelly Butler doesn’t mind saying schools teach literacy all wrong. Condensing the science of reading into a one-hour overview presentation for the Opportunity Culture Fellows Convening, Butler issued a clarion call for educators to to follow the science of reading, focusing on phonics, brain development, the five components of reading, and the simple view of reading. Butler’s efforts to spread the word have helped move Mississippi’s reading growth to the top of state rankings.
What Could You Do in an Opportunity Culture®?
What could you do in an Opportunity Culture® teaching role, and why do educators like them so much? Educators across the country share the support, collaboration, teacher satisfaction, and student learning results they see from implementing these innovative staffing models.
Strategies for Personalization: Learner Variability Tool Can Help
By Margaret High, October 9, 2019
Educators know they can’t design their instructional approach for one “average” student—but finding the right resources to make true personalization possible can be a time-consuming struggle. At their 2019 convening, Opportunity Culture Fellows tested one free tool that can help. Digital Promise, an independent, nonpartisan nonprofit, created its Learner Variability Project to translate the growing body of research on learning for educators and parents. Digital Promise created a whole-child framework that feeds into its free tool, the Learner Variability Navigator, which guides users through the factors they need to address for each student and strategies to match.
What Could You Do in an Opportunity Culture®? (Intro)
What could you do in an Opportunity Culture, and why do educators like it? Hear their thoughts in this brief video.
What Does a Multi-Classroom Leader® Do?
Learn about the unique role of multi-classroom leaders (MCLs)—educators who provide intensive support and development to small teaching teams, for more pay, within regular budgets.
What Does a Multi-Classroom Leader® Do? – Extended Version
Learn about the unique role of multi-classroom leaders (MCLs)—educators who provide intensive support and development to small teaching teams, for more pay, within regular budgets.
Be the Bridge: How Multi-Classroom Leaders Smooth Teacher-Administrator Communication
By Brandon Warren, September 3, 2019
Teachers, how many times has this happened to you?
The classroom door opens, and in comes the principal, maybe with an assistant principal in tow. Your stomach plunges as you think, “Oh my goodness, they’re here, what are they looking for, what do they like, what don’t they like?” Your purpose in teaching that day flies out of your head, and it’s all downhill from there.
Bridging the Gaps Between Teachers and Administrators
Multi-Classroom Leader® Brandon Warren sees his role as advocating for his teaching team with administrators, and helping everyone work together to reach their common goals.