The August newsletter includes a new Opportunity Culture audio piece and video; information about the Opportunity Culture Directors Gathering; tools and resources for fall; the latest news about Opportunity Culture sites and educators; and more! Read the August 2022 newsletter here.
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A “Crucial” Opportunity Culture® Role: Reach Associates Provide Small-Group Tutoring
At Bearfield Primary School in Hertford County, North Carolina, paraprofessional reach associates help improve student outcomes by providing instructional support under the direction of multi-classroom leaders.
Education Matters: Advanced Teaching Roles
From Education Matters, July 16, 2022
In this episode of Education Matters, a weekly television show about the state of public education in North Carolina, host Mary Ann Wolf, President and Executive Director of the Public School Forum, interviews Public Impact Co-President Bryan Hassel about the Opportunity Culture initiative and Advanced Teaching Roles. Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR) is a state grant structure designed to help retain and expand the reach of highly effective teachers in North Carolina. Most of the North Carolina districts receiving ATR grants use Opportunity Culture roles.
A Closer Look at Advanced Teaching Roles in North Carolina: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
From BEST NC, July 15, 2022
This video from BEST NC examines how the Advanced Teaching Roles program has created new opportunities for teacher leadership and educator collaboration in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, resulting in increased student growth. CMS was the first and largest school district to receive Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR) grants. Like most of the North Carolina districts receiving ATR grants, CMS uses Opportunity Culture roles as its framework. Principal Phillip Steffes, featured in the video, is a 2018-19 Opportunity Culture Fellow. He led Opportunity Culture implementation at his previous school, Albemarle Road Elementary. Read what he wrote about the experience here.
Sydney Garcia on Being a Multi-Classroom Leader
Sydney Garcia, a multi-classroom leader at Pease Elementary in Ector County ISD, says the MCL role is “the best of both worlds” allowing her to take on a leadership role while still being in the classroom.
Audriana Munoz on Being a Teacher Resident
Audriana Munoz, a teacher resident at Pease Elementary in Ector County ISD, describes how her yearlong paid residency, working under the guidance of a multi-classroom leader, prepared her to enter the teaching profession already feeling like “a second-year teacher.”
Sneak Peek: Opportunity Culture® Educators Speak
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, May 26, 2022
The communications team at Public Impact had the pleasure of visiting several districts this spring, for the first time since Covid hit, to interview Opportunity Culture educators and document their great work! We heard about their challenges and successes—what we learn in these interviews informs the guidance and support Public Impact provides to districts—and their opinions of Opportunity Culture roles and implementation.
Watch for stories and video clips highlighting specifics of their implementation and leadership and instructional practices in future months, but for now, here are a few of their thoughts to send us into summer:
Introduction to Opportunity Culture® Models + Residency
Webinar Date: May 24, 2022 Featuring a panel of Opportunity Culture® leaders, this webinar gives an overview of the Opportunity Culture® initiative and highlights how Opportunity Culture® models help strengthen teacher pipelines and address teacher shortages in Texas,...
Two Keys to Success for Opportunity Culture® Leaders
By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, May 19, 2022
Opportunity Culture planning and implementation success involves a host of factors, such as strong initial school designs and rigorous selection, accountability, and monitoring processes, but over and over, district leaders repeat two themes that can’t be ignored: the importance of building relationships and maintaining fidelity to the model.
Those themes came up again in April, when two Texas Opportunity Culture districts hosted education leaders interested in using Opportunity Culture designs and teacher residencies in their schools—the first in-person site visit since pre-Covid days. The daylong visit to Midland and Ector County Independent School Districts (ISDs) included an overview of Opportunity Culture implementation, visits to multiple schools to see and hear about the educator roles in action, and a panel discussion with the districts’ Opportunity Culture leaders.
Teacher-Assistant Partnership Benefits Students: March OC Newsletter
By Public Impact, March 31, 2022
The March newsletter includes a spotlight focused on the partnership of a Guilford expanded-impact teacher & her teaching assistant, emphasizing the power of the TA doing small-group tutoring; resources; videos; and more. Read the March 2022 newsletter here.