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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.

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 a team of teachers …
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Guilford School Board Wants Flexibility to Help 9 Low-Performing Schools

April 11, 2018
News & Record, April 11, 2018, by Jessie Pounds Guilford County school board members are asking the state to give nine schools the kind of flexibility normally reserved for charter schools. They voted to send the state an application for “restart” status at Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting.
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Providing Good Teachers for All Students Proves to be a Challenge for States

April 10, 2018
Education Dive, April 10, 2018, by Amelia Harper Though the “highly qualified teacher” mandates have been scrapped under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states are now tasked with defining an “effective teacher” and making sure that these teachers are being equitably distributed to all demographic groups, Education Week reports.
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ESSA Pressures States to Assure All Students Have Good Teachers

April 3, 2018
EdWeek, April 3, 2018, by Madeline Will Every student, no matter their race or family income level, should be taught by an effective teacher, the Every Student Succeeds Act declares. Exactly how to define what makes an effective teacher and how to implement this ambitious goal has been left up to the …
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Central Arkansas Teacher Surprised with $25,000 Award

January 26, 2018
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 26, 2018, by Cynthia Howell Dawn McLain said she didn’t have an inkling that she was going to be named Arkansas’ winner of the unrestricted $25,000 Milken Educator Award on Thursday until state Education Commissioner Johnny Key announced her name at a sixth-grade student assembly.
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New Teaching Model Yields Learning Improvement for Students in Math

January 25, 2018
Brookings, January 25, 2018, by Michael Hansen and Ben Backes Since President Trump took office, it seems that most education news has moved away from a key pillar of the Obama-era education platform: teacher quality. Increasing teacher quality, particularly for disadvantaged students, was a principle that surfaced time and again from …
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Rockets, Robots and ‘Rithmetic earn Dawn McLain a $25,000 Milken Educator Award

January 25, 2018
Milken Educator Awards, January 25, 2018 Arkansas teacher Dawn McLain engages her 6th grade science and math students any way she can, whether it be with robotics, design modeling or rocketry. And while big science may be helping lift her students’ test scores into the stratosphere, her classes are invariably down-to-earth and …
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Smart List: 50+ Advocacy Organizations Making a Difference

January 17, 2018
Getting Smart, January 17, 2018 It is important for us all to be making our voices heard in conversations about education policy and funding. Now more than ever, it is our responsibility to be spreading the word about what makes a high-quality learning experience that can prepare students for a future …
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When Good Teachers Oversee Multiple Classrooms, Does Learning Improve?

January 12, 2018
EdWeek, January 12, 2018, by Madeline Will When highly effective teachers are given a hybrid role to lead other teachers, the students on their team perform better in math and, to a lesser extent, reading, according to a new study.
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IPS Teacher, Student Mentoring Program Aims to Retain Educators

April 17, 2017
RTV 6 ABC, April 17, 2017, by Katie Heinz and Victoria T. Davis Amid the proposal to close three of the district’s seven high schools, IPS is offering a new program to teachers interested in mentoring other educators and students. IPS administrators said the goal of Opportunity Culture is to improve …
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