Providing career lattices that give
excellent teachers opportunities to lead in their schools is just one of Educators 4 Excellence's (E4E) recommendations in their new report on teacher compensation.
Not exact matches
For those who graduated before the existence of the Membership Site, this is an
excellent opportunity to see how the content of
teacher training has grown since you attended!
Some of the
excellent new
teachers the nation needs, Vasquez noted at a Washington, D.C., briefing, could be postdocs attracted into the classroom partially by a desire to pass on the excitement of science but also by new programs that could provide incentives such as higher pay and
opportunities for continued participation in research.
Their
teacher Andy McFadden has described the Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an
excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.»
All the schools had to design models that adhered to the five Reach Extension Principles, which call for reaching more students with
excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development
opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great
teachers.
Opportunity Culture models redesign jobs to extend the reach of
excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within budget — typically in collaborative teams on which all
teachers can pursue instructional excellence together and are formally accountable for all of the students they serve.
With these changes in selectivity,
opportunity, and pay, our nation could go from giving no one what's needed to giving everyone what they want: for
teachers, sustainable, well - paid career advancement, rigorous development on the job, and whole careers» worth of engaging work; for students,
excellent teaching for all, consistently, increasing their lifelong prospects; and for the broader community, an improved economy, national security, and social stability.
It's what our
Opportunity Culture work is all about — hope for achieving extraordinary things, with sustainable school models led by proven,
excellent teachers to back it up.
An
Opportunity Culture using new school models that extend
excellent teachers» reach makes achieving this new vision possible, particularly when tailored to allow all
teachers to succeed in teams — increasing the odds of widespread improvement in teaching and learning.
When we launched
Opportunity Culture, our goal was to boost student learning by extending the reach of
excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within schools» regular budgets.
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.
We shared five Reach Extension Principles for the new school models they would craft or tailor to their needs; they call for reaching more students with
excellent teachers in charge of their learning, for more pay, within budget, while boosting development
opportunities for all
teachers and clarifying authority / credit for great
teachers.
In our recent report, Seizing
Opportunity at the Top, we suggest three major ways to generate the significant will needed to put
excellent teachers in charge of every child's learning.
«It was a very complicated process, but it was a tremendous
opportunity to get involved in complex policy issues,» says Wood, who now serves as executive director of the National Academy for
Excellent Teaching at Columbia's
Teachers College.
Excellent teachers from Teach Plus and other experts contributed to the models, alongside the initial
Opportunity Culture Advisory Team, which includes leaders in teaching, technology, and philanthropic organizations.
Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel have written for Ed Next on how schools can extend the reach of
excellent teachers so that more children will have the
opportunity to learn from the best
teachers we have.
This work builds on Public Impact's «
Opportunity Culture» initiative, which aims both to reach every child with high - growth, enriched learning and to provide paid career advancement
opportunities to
excellent teachers, within budget.
Digital learning will also transform career
opportunities for
excellent teachers.
A Digital Citizenship PBL project is an
excellent opportunity to partner with the
teachers of other content areas to teach and assess multiple standards.
Again, this is an
excellent opportunity to listen to the veteran
teacher and use conversation as a way to collaborate and eventually start planning together.
Initiatives such as these not only help to establish
excellent links with other schools in the community, but also create learning
opportunities for pupils and
teachers that will be remembered.
Back to reformers: If these results stand — and possibly improve as more
teachers hold these roles and help one another succeed — can we possibly all work together to change policies and systems to support giving every student access to
excellent teaching, and giving every
teacher outstanding career
opportunities without being forced up and out of the classroom?
In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid,
opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of
excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scale.
From that line of thinking was born
Opportunity Culture, an initiative to try this idea: Let school teams with
teachers on them redesign jobs and use age - appropriate technology to extend the reach of
excellent teachers and their teams to many more students, for more pay, within regular budgets, adding more planning time, and having them take full accountability for the learning of all the students they serve.
Instead, they're an
excellent opportunity for
teachers to show off the amazing work that students are doing in class, and also to have important conversations with parents about supporting students that are struggling.
Here is a list of common mistakes that many prospective
teachers make and miss
excellent opportunities to work in their preferred schools or colleges.
-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting
Excellent Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student
Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support
Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014
Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM
Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid
Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with
Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on
Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on
Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»:
Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide
Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of
Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on
Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best
teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join
Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do
teachers say about an Opportunity
teachers say about an
Opportunity Culture?
Pay
Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great -
Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay
Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of
Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New
Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial
Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012
Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top
Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report:
Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top
Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making
Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring
Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for
Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New
Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010
Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
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 — N
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 — N
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 — N
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 —
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 — N
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 —
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 — N
Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013
Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share
Opportunity Culture with Your
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Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect
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Teachers Are — Now What?
TFA gives what the program considers potentially
excellent teachers - those with both solid knowledge of content and strong leadership skills - a low - cost
opportunity to earn a teaching credential while discovering whether they have found a calling.
Blended learning is just one way
Opportunity Culture schools can extend the reach of their
excellent teachers to more students, for higher pay, within recurring budgets.
Public Impact defines «
opportunity culture» as «extending the reach of
excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within budget.
By extending the reach of
excellent teachers and their teams to many more students — for much higher pay, within available budgets, and adding time to plan, collaborate, and improve — the schools saw a way to address their dilemmas using the
Opportunity Culture formula.
Opportunity Culture models extend the reach of
excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within budget.
That leadership is critical in an
Opportunity Culture, which extends the reach of their
excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets — but applicable to any principals leading turnarounds and those interested in strengthening
teacher leadership and enabling a collaborative approach to improving student achievement.
Multi-Classroom Leadership has been the most popular — and highest paid — model that
Opportunity Culture schools have used to extend the reach of their
excellent teachers to more students within recurring budgets.
Releasing its «
Excellent Educators for Each and Every Child: A Policy Roadmap for Transforming the Teaching and Principal Professions,» the group urges measures to strengthen the recruitment pipeline for
teachers and principals; build robust preparation programs that ensure that future educators are profession - ready; and cultivate
opportunities for continuous growth and leadership.
As an independent nonprofit, we engage, inform, and mobilize the business community and community - at - large to provide every student in Wake County Public Schools with
excellent educational
opportunities, highly effective
teachers, and strong leaders.
Most recently, Emily helped launch the
Opportunity Culture Initiative, Public Impact's effort to develop and refine school and staffing models for reaching more students with
excellent teachers.
In
Opportunity Culture schools, Multi-Classroom Leadership creates the potential for aspiring
teachers to experience paid, full - time, yearlong residencies led by
excellent teachers who lead instructional teams.
The Harlandale Independent School District, in south - central San Antonio, Texas, has joined the national
Opportunity Culture initiative to extend the reach of
excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets.
And the report takes a close look at how an
Opportunity Culture uses the benefits blended learning can offer to let
excellent teachers:
Policymakers, hear directly from
teachers and administrators about why an
Opportunity Culture appeals to
excellent teachers and those aspiring to excellence — then see how you can make an
Opportunity Culture possible.
Opportunity Culture models, which extend the reach of
excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for higher pay within budget, change both the content and process of
teacher evaluation — for the better.
Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals,
teachers need feedback and
opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases,
excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of
opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30
Ms. Hassel is co-leading Public Impact's
Opportunity Culture initiative, an effort to reach more students with
excellent teachers and principals and provide more educators with paid residencies, on - the - job support, and paid career advancement.
That's when we realized that as much as we must communicate the students» urgent need for more
excellent teachers, we must also communicate the huge sense of urgency we feel to change the
teachers» profession — because
opportunities for
teachers mean
opportunities for students.
We must ensure our students of color, immigrant students, students speaking languages other than English and female students, in particular, have consistent access to
excellent STEM
teachers and
opportunities.
At scale, Touchstone's schools will meet the five Reach Extension Principles of an
Opportunity Culture, which call for reaching more students with excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for grea
Opportunity Culture, which call for reaching more students with
excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development
opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for grea
opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great
teachers.
We will also analyze how well the programs stack up to the five Reach Extension Principles, which call for reaching more students with
excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development
opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great
teachers.