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How Opportunity Culture® Redesigns Help Address Teacher Shortages

By Public Impact, April 7, 2022

What if you could improve student outcomes even in a time of rising teacher shortages?

Many schools and districts report feeling stuck on the hamster wheel of trying to fill all their open positions. This struggle has been worsening for years. According to one report, the share of schools that tried to fill a vacancy but couldn’t tripled from 2011 to 2016, from 3.1 percent to 9.4 percent, and the share of schools that reported that it was “very difficult” to fill a vacancy nearly doubled, from 19.7 percent to 36.2 percent. Those vacancies directly harm students’ learning.

What could take weary principals out of chronic emergency hiring mode? A chance to rethink staffing to give students excellent instruction using the number of adults a school has. Read More…

Additional Opportunity Culture® Professional Learning

Additional Opportunity Culture® Professional LearningBoth prospective and experienced teacher-leaders can benefit from our additional professional learning offerings 2025–26 Course Offerings We offer professional learning supports to build the capacity of prospective...

“Everybody is Traumatized”: Opportunity Culture® Fellows on Keeping On

By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, January 25, 2022

With ongoing Covid-related stresses this year, many Opportunity Culture educators have wondered how much their challenges match those of other Opportunity Culture schools. Before the winter break, educators from multiple cohorts of Opportunity Culture Fellows gathered online to share their experiences and support one another—and found their stresses mirrored much of what has been in the news for months.

In Memoriam: Dr. Eric Ward, Principal and Opportunity Culture® Fellow

By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, September 29, 2021

Dr. Eric Ward, principal of Harding University High School, an Opportunity Culture school in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, died on September 22 at the age of 46. Ward, a 2019–20 Opportunity Culture Fellow, had been an educator in Charlotte for nearly 25 years, including as principal of four schools.

Quick Take: Why One Texas Teacher Loved Her Opportunity Culture® Residency

By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, March 29, 2021

Coming into her final semester of college as a student at the University of Texas Permian Basin in fall 2020, Chelsea McMahan decided to forgo a traditional student teaching post, applying instead for a full-time, paid, Opportunity Culture teacher residency in a fourth-grade class in the Midland, Texas, independent school district (ISD).

Six months later, McMahan found herself—as a newly minted, full-time sixth-grade teacher at another Midland school—standing before the district’s school board extolling the benefits of her residency. Read more…

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...

Home Page Test

Excellent Student Results. Excellent Educator Careers.Redesign schools with research-proven staffing changes to roles, schedules, teacher residencies, instruction, and tutoring to reach all students with excellent teaching and all educators with excellent team-based...

366 Schools in 8 States Receive Certified Status

We are excited to announce that 366 schools in 28 districts in eight states have been awarded the new "Certified Opportunity Culture School™, Provisional Level, 2023–24" designation! Showing their commitment to reaching all students with excellent teaching,...

Dashboard: Teachers (2024)

Opportunity Culture® DashboardDASHBOARD HOME   >>   schools     |     sites     |     teachers     |     survey     |     students     |     growth     |     extra pay As of 2023–24, 6,600+ teachers are in advanced, higher-paid Opportunity Culture® roles or are...