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.
At West Charlotte High, Opportunity Culture Making a Difference for Students and Teachers
EdNC, March 8, 2017, by Erin Burns
When I showed North Carolina’s new state superintendent Mark Johnson around West Charlotte High recently, he saw a vastly different school than when he taught there. Both Johnson and I started our careers in education at West Charlotte in the D…
Indianapolis is Experimenting with a New Kind of Teacher — and It’s Transforming This School
Chalkbeat, February 16, 2017, by Dylan Peers McCoy
Teachers at School 107 are up against a steep tower of challenges: test scores are chronically low, student turnover is high and more than a third of kids are still learning English.
Teacher Leadership Roles Come to Edgecombe County
EdNC, February 14, 2017, by Liz Bell
When teachers get really good, they often stop teaching. After years in the classroom, the desire to move onto something with higher pay, more responsibility, and greater challenge is understandable. When that time comes, Public Impact is hoping to give teachers a meaningful alternative to transitioning…