Center on Great Teachers and Leaders at American Institutes for Research, May 2023 In its May 2023 newsletter, the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders at the American Institutes for Research highlighted Public Impact’s recent brief, How Innovative Staffing Can Address Teacher Shortages, Permanently—and Boost Learning, as a resource for promoting teacher retention. The brief […]
How Innovative Staffing Can Address Teacher Shortages, Permanently—and Boost Learning
Staffing shortages have plagued some schools for decades. How can innovative staffing designs help—and boost learning?
Addressing the Teacher Shortage: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers—Q&A with WestEd’s Gretchen Weber
WestEd, September 27, 2022 Recruiting and retaining teachers is fundamental to supporting learning recovery. In this Q&A, Gretchen Weber, Senior Managing Director at WestEd, responds to questions many communities are asking about how to address the teacher shortage crisis. … Opportunity Culture model is another example of differentiated staffing, where the roles of teachers are restructured to extend […]
We can rethink training, recruiting, deploying teachers
Indianapolis Business Journal, August 12, 2022 by Claire Fiddian-Green Indiana, like the rest of the nation, is grappling with a shortage of teachers. Although shortages are more acute today due to the impact of COVID-19 on labor markets, this challenge has existed for decades. Addressing teacher shortages for the long term will require us to rethink […]
It’s Time to Rethink the ‘One Teacher, One Classroom’ Model
Education Week, July 20, 2022, by Irene Chen and Stephanie Banchero The last few years have taken a toll on our teachers. The COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing cultural divisions, and the Uvalde, Texas, massacre all weigh heavily. Morale is at an all-time low. Now is the time to rethink the teaching profession. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some districts […]
Arkansas, Texas, Virginia, and North Carolina School Systems Join National Opportunity Culture Initiative
Eleven school districts and a charter management organization in Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Arkansas are the latest to join the national Opportunity Culture initiative, led by Public Impact, which extends the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets. Some sites also include yearlong, paid residencies […]
Annual Opportunity Culture Dashboard 2021-22 Update: Opportunity Culture Growth—By the Numbers
As districts seek innovations to bolster student academics and bring support and joy to students and teachers, the Opportunity Culture model continues to spread and produce results, even in another challenging pandemic year. Each year, Public Impact analyzes Opportunity Culture data to improve its materials and its work with schools and districts. With the overarching […]
Opportunity Culture Growth—By the Numbers
This edition of our newsletter features a look at the 2021–22 Opportunity Culture Data Dashboard; the announcement of eleven new Opportunity Culture sites in Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia; and more. Click here to read more.
Uplift Education Joins National Initiative, Opportunity Culture, to Reach Students with Excellent Teaching
Accesswire, Thursday, April 14, 2022 DALLAS, Texas—Uplift Education is thrilled to announce that they have joined the growing, national Opportunity Culture movement to reach all students with excellent teaching, to help students meet their academic goals and leap ahead. Uplift has partnered with Tarleton State University, Public Impact, and US PREP to design and implement […]
Equitable access to effective educators emerges as priority for North Carolina
EdNC, March 16, 2022, by Mebane Rash. “Students in high-poverty schools are about half as likely to have access to highly effective teachers, compared to students in low-poverty schools,” said Johanna Anderson, executive director of The Belk Foundation, at a recent convening of their board of directors and education stakeholders. This is not a new data […]
A smart tool for helping to address Idaho’s school facilities challenge
Idaho Ed News, March 7, 2022, by Terry Ryan “Idaho had the largest percentage population growth in 2021, followed by Utah, Montana and Arizona” read the December 27th, 2021 headline. It is well known to those of us living here that our state is growing. As a result of this growth in new residents we need […]
Mitigating Teacher Resignations; Scaling Up Small-Group Tutoring
This edition of our newsletter includes the following features stories, and more: Resetting Teaching: Mitigating the Great Resignation Making sense of the conflicting reports about teacher shortages and resignations may take many more months, but CNET took a solid look in The Great Resignation Hasn’t Hit School Teachers Yet. Here’s Why It Still Might. It highlights […]