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Below are some of the most recent news articles featuring Public Impact and our work. To read more, searchable by topic, visit our resource database. For more news about our Opportunity Culture® initiative, visit the Opportunity Culture® website.

Predictable Third Grade Reading Assessment Results Prompt the Question – How Can We Do Better?

September 28, 2018
EdNC, September 28, 2018, by Mandy Ableidinger
The most recent NC end of third grade reading assessment results show scores hardly shifting from last year and continued racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic gaps. What can we do differently? A recent research study on how best to reduce achievement…
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School Scores Show Improvement in Edgecombe County

September 10, 2018
Rocky Mount Telegram, September 10, 2018, by Amelia Harper
Edgecombe County Public Schools registered some improvement on the 2017-18 preliminary school performance scores and exited low-performing status this year, but still has plenty of room for improvement.
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Thought Leadership Forum Brief: Talent Development and Opportunity Culture

July 1, 2018
Center on School Turnaround, July 2018
This brief summarizes the information presented in the March and April 2018 forums, which addressed Opportunity Culture as a strategy to support talent development. The March presentation was by Bryan Hassel, Co-President of Public Impact. The April forum featured Denise Watts,…
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5 Qualities for Teacher Leaders and Those Who Hire Them

June 22, 2018
EdNC, June 22, 2018, by Marquitta Mitchell
House Bill 235 outlines credentials that mentor teachers should possess so that they can provide support for new teachers. Those credentials include being an “excellent, experienced, and qualified” teacher who has at least an “accomplished” rating on their NC Teacher Evaluation.
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To Personalize Learning, Change School Staffing

June 7, 2018
Association of American Educators, June 7, 2018, by Melissa Pratt
Personalized learning is one of the buzziest education buzzwords of the moment. Teachers are urged to individualize instruction, to promote mastery learning, and to help students identify with the material. When it comes down to how a…
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Teachers Shouldn’t Have to Work Alone – and Now They Don’t Have to

May 29, 2018
Forbes, May 29, 2018, by Michael Horn
With the rise of online learning in schools—what educators call “blended learning”—what teachers do daily is changing in big and small ways. A central question is what will teaching look like in the future, as online learning can increasingly help…
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How Team Teaching (and Other Innovations) Can Impact Blended Learning

May 25, 2018
eSchool News, May 25, 2018, by Thomas Arnett
Personalized learning’s rationale has strong intuitive appeal: We can all remember feeling bored, confused, frustrated, or lost in school when our classes didn’t spark our interests or address our learning needs. But an intuitive rationale doesn’t clearly translate to…
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The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model Needs an Upgrade. Here’s What’s Next.

May 24, 2018
EdSurge, May 24, 2018, by Stephen Noonoo
Emerging school models are supposed to ease the transition to personalized and blended instruction—or at least make it possible. But new ways of teaching can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup. According to the authors…
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Teachers Kept Quitting This Indianapolis School. Here’s How the Principal Got Them to Stay

May 9, 2018
Chalkbeat, May 9, 2018, by Dylan Peers McCoy
When Jeremy Baugh took the helm as principal of School 107 three years ago, staff turnover was so high that about half the teachers were also new to the struggling elementary campus, he said. For his first two years,…
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Does Opportunity Culture Bring Students More Opportunities to Learn?

April 30, 2018
National Council on Teacher Quality, April 2018, by Kency Nittler
About 20 school districts have adopted new staffing models known collectively as Opportunity Culture, each designed to maximize the impact of great teachers. In these districts, excellent teachers are given opportunities to reach to more students through leading…
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