More than 100 schools in six states (and growing) are already designing and implementing
Opportunity Culture roles to reach every student with excellent teaching.
After recruiting for the first year of
Opportunity Culture roles, Harris had no vacancies in math — a first since she arrived at Ranson.
The Indianapolis school board and teachers union recently became the first in the country to include
Opportunity Culture roles in their new contract, offering pay supplements of up to $ 18,300 — 35 percent of the district's average salary.
IPS is the second collective bargaining district in which the local teachers union has supported
Opportunity Culture roles, but the first to include the roles in its contract for all teachers.
The Indianapolis Education Association voted to include multiple
Opportunity Culture roles in the contract, with the highest pay for multi-classroom leaders, who continue to teach while leading a team.
That was Charlotte Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL) Kristin Cubbage, who kicked off the Opportunity Culture series on Real Clear Education a year ago and wrapped it up this month, extolling what made her advanced role so valuable, and calling for more
Opportunity Culture roles.
Opportunity Culture roles have attracted great teachers across the country, producing strong recruiting results for schools of all kinds.
Ask the Teacher - Leaders — October 1, 2015 Indy Teachers Union Votes for High - Paid
Opportunity Culture Roles — September 9, 2015 Charter School Lessons in New Orleans, Nashville — September 1, 2015 Teacher Evaluation for Teacher - Led, Team - Based Schools: Free Guide & Policy Brief — August 27, 2015 Early Lessons from Newark's Charter School Sector — August 20, 2015 New, Free Training Materials for Teaching - Team Leaders — August 4, 2015 Higher Growth, Pay at Early Opportunity Culture Schools: Results and Lessons — July 21, 2015 Syracuse Schools Build on First Opportunity Culture Year — June 16, 2015 How to Build an Opportunity Culture: New, Free Toolkit — June 9, 2015 Hire Great Teacher - Leaders, Blended - Learning and Team Teachers: Free Toolkits — June 2, 2015 Texas First to Launch Statewide Opportunity Culture Initiative — May 19, 2015 RealClearEducation.com Launches Opportunity Culture Series — May 15, 2015 Indianapolis Public Schools Begin Opportunity Culture Initiative — May 07, 2015 What Could YOU Do in an Opportunity Culture?
For ease of use and downloading, this toolkit walks users through the steps of selecting candidates for
Opportunity Culture roles.
The Teacher and Staff Selection Toolkit suggests behavioral competencies for
Opportunity Culture roles, largely derived from Competence at Work by Lyle and Signe Spencer, the vanguard publication of research applied widely across sectors for hiring outstanding professionals and leaders (including Singapore's teachers and leaders).
The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in
Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.
The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in
Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms.
Not exact matches
There is also substantial non-literary evidence which shows that Jewish women often took initiative for their lives and activities in spite of the male orientation and domination prevalent in the
culture.8 These positive
roles and
opportunities constitute Jewish evidence for the significance of women in ancient Judaism.
«Certainly, the
culture of the «warrior mentality» plays a
role in not reporting these events,» she observed, «but some of it is also an awareness issue, and we have a great
opportunity, with so much attention around concussion, to increase knowledge in this area.»
«Current women engineers become a flight risk when they experience a career plateau with few advancement
opportunities, poor treatment by managers and co-workers and a
culture that stresses taking work home or working on weekends with no support for managing multiple life
roles,» Fouad said.
At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the
role, what it was like having the
opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share in common, what she looks for in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate between big movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French
culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
With eight world leaders gathering on Sea Island, Ga., early next month for the G - 8 economic summit — along with the many journalists and demonstrators who will accompany them — educators in the coastal counties of the state have had a once - in - a-lifetime
opportunity to teach about different
cultures and the United States»
role in international affairs.
In her synthesis of research on effective teacher professional development that has demonstrated a positive impact on student outcomes, Timperley (2008) identified 10 key principles, including: providing teachers with
opportunities to drive their own professional development, allowing teachers to work collaboratively to learn and apply evidence based practices, establishing a professional learning
culture that provides a safe and authentic environment for professional enquiry and ensuring school leaders take an active
role in developing professional learning, and maintaining momentum within schools.
Public Impact's latest
Opportunity Culture case study, Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T.: New Teaching
Roles Create
Culture of Excellence in High - Need Schools, explains the «truly different» things that L.I.F.T. did to redesign four schools using
Opportunity Culture models and principles.
Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an
Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable
roles, for more pay — but within budget.
In each
Opportunity Culture school, a team of teachers and administrators adopts new
roles and plans implementation.
The
Opportunity Culture models are full of career paths and variations that solve so many of the problems caused by isolated, inflexible, uniform teaching
roles in most schools today.
However, until schools develop an appropriate digital school ecosystem, adopt a
culture that empowers the teachers, students and parents, and support all that take a lead
role in the use of the digital in teaching, they won't be able to take advantage of those
opportunities and continually enhance their productivity.
What's most heartening: In Charlotte - Mecklenburg's Project L.I.F.T., the candidates were so eager to work in this new type of school that many who were not selected for
Opportunity Culture advanced
roles were willing to take regular teaching jobs in those schools, just to get a foot in the door for future openings.
In the 34 schools that implemented an
Opportunity Culture last year, teacher - leaders earned an average of $ 10,000 — and as much as $ 23,000 — more for these advanced
roles, giving them a clear stake in successfully developing other teachers.
Schools across the United States are adjusting their professional
cultures and workplace practices in response, creating formal
opportunities for teachers to learn from one another and work together through shared planning periods, teacher leadership
roles, and professional learning communities.
Guilford County
Opportunity Culture schools offer innovative team - based
roles that allow teachers and paras to lead from the classroom!
Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision:
Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned
Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013
Opportunity Culture district creates paid
role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations»
roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking
Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013
Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share
Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?
Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools:
Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018
Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in
Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017
Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017
Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017
Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching
Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National
Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining
Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support:
Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use
Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C.
Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins
Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of
Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel have written for Education Next about a new way to address this issue, something they call
Opportunity Culture, which allows teachers to take on leadership
roles while remaining in the classroom.
Project L.I.F.T. in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg School District started by offering a complete
Opportunity Culture package of career advancement
roles that let great teachers stay in the classroom, help more students, and collaborate with and lead peers.
«
Opportunity Culture» initiative coming to Vance County schools: Vance County Schools has become the fourth North Carolina district to participate in the national
Opportunity Culture Initiative, reported The Daily Dispatch, with three elementary schools being the district's first to implement their new teaching
roles and school plans in the 2017 - 18 school year.
These teacher - leaders took on
roles in some of the first
Opportunity Culture schools as multi-classroom leaders (MCLs).
And so, in its second year of
Opportunity Culture implementation in four schools, Project L.I.F.T. saw a strong uptick in both the quantity — more than 800 applications for 27 spots — and quality of applicants for teaching
roles at schools that previously saw many positions go unfilled.
But districts and states must deliberately change evaluation to match the team, team leader, and extended - reach
roles that are common in schools using
Opportunity Culture models.
This guide and brief join the many free
Opportunity Culture materials for schools, districts, and human resources personnel to use in creating an
Opportunity Culture, recruiting, selecting, training, and evaluating and developing teachers and teacher - leaders in these new
roles.
In the career paths available in an
Opportunity Culture, teachers have the possibility for fluid career advancement and transitions among
roles, as we explained here.
What hiring a Director of School Operations will do is to clarify
roles and responsibilities for students, staff, and parents; increase
opportunities for direct coaching and management to support staff; allow Principals and Assistant Principals to focus on teaching and learning, all of which create a healthy school
culture, and ultimately drive student achievement.
In that, her
role resembles the
Opportunity Culture initiative's Multi-Classroom Leadership model.
That led to his
role on the school design team at Ranson, tasked with redesigning the school to implement an
Opportunity Culture in the 2013 - 14 year.
Lavely's
role misses crucial pieces of the
Opportunity Culture Multi-Classroom Leadership model: formal accountability for the results of all the students in her «pod,» and higher pay, within existing budgets, to match the greater number of students she reaches with excellence.
Opportunity Culture is one such research - based, comprehensive model aimed at boosting student learning by transforming teacher
roles throughout a school.
Their
Opportunity Culture initiative helps districts and schools create highly paid, high impact teacher leader
roles that extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students.
It includes an overview of key
Opportunity Culture concepts, graphics and explanations detailing new school models and
roles, and assistance for evaluating the impact of different compensation design choices.
Educators can move from passively allowing students to lead school
culture to actively encouraging them for taking responsibility for it through learning
opportunities focused on their
roles.
Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify
opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school
culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in
roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.
UNWTO launches World Tourism Day 2011 which will be held on 27 September 2011, and will be celebrated under the theme Tourism — Linking
Cultures, an opportunity to highlight tourism's role in bringing the cultures of the world together and promoting global understanding through
Cultures, an
opportunity to highlight tourism's
role in bringing the
cultures of the world together and promoting global understanding through
cultures of the world together and promoting global understanding through travel.
Jim Rossignol over at Offworld recently had the
opportunity to sit down with writer / designer / spokesman Chet Faliszek to discuss his changing
role within Valve, the company's
culture, its fans and a few interesting things about the worlds of Left 4 Dead and Half - Life.
The Arts Council advertises job
opportunities within the art and
culture sector, and is perfect for those seeking a
role within a theatre or gallery environment.
Nor can firms afford to continue wasting and losing women — the other half of the talent pool - who could fill those
roles if the firm's
culture, work environment and leadership
opportunities supported their ambitions.