This edition of our newsletter features our commentary on high-dosage tutoring, a three-part webinar series focused on some of the most important elements to launch the new year for student success, and highlights from our summer professional learning sessions. Click here to read more! Keep Reading
What Makes Strategic Staffing Changes Stick?
This edition of our newsletter features our interviews with district leaders in Vance County, North Carolina about their keys to sustaining Opportunity Culture® roles in their schools. Plus, how do great educators use the results of one school year to plan and launch the next? Watch the first two parts of our webinar series to […]
Preview Our New Strategic Staffing Portal!
In this edition of our newsletter, we unveil the Opportunity Culture® portal—making it even easier for more districts and states to create their own strategic staffing designs. This online platform provides the guidance and tools needed to design sustainable staffing models; learn how to maintain your design’s effectiveness long-term; and monitor, analyze, and improve your […]
In the New Year, It’s All Hands on Deck for Student Results!
Backed by 10 years of data and results, Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture models create school staffing designs that get results and that educators love. To celebrate the Opportunity Culture initiative’s first decade, we have developed a high-impact, sustainable, cost-effective way to give all students access to excellent teaching and all educators access to outstanding career […]
3 of Largest US Districts Form Opportunity Culture Consortium with TSL Grant
Three of the nation’s largest school districts—Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Fort Worth, and Montgomery County (Maryland)—have been awarded a $7.7 million federal grant for widespread implementation of Opportunity Culture innovative staffing models, which Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools pioneered with Public Impact’s support in 2013. Learn more about this exciting news in our newsletter! Keep Reading
At PIE? Let’s Talk State Policy on Innovative Staffing!
Senior Vice President Shonaka Ellison is speaking on Reimagining the Teaching Role at the annual PIE Summit. Ms. Ellison will explain how Public Impact’s innovative Opportunity Culture staffing models can address teacher shortages long-term and get results for students—and the state policies needed to enable these models to flourish. Read our newsletter here to learn […]
Celebrating 10 Years of Student Success, Educator Satisfaction!
We’re celebrating our 10th year of helping schools implement what district leaders call “game-changing” Opportunity Culture innovative staffing models, proven to get results for student learning and educator satisfaction with a redesigned website that makes it easy to learn about the impact these models lead to. We offer multiple cost options for districts and states to […]
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.
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 […]
New Research: Strong Opportunity Culture Results
This edition of our newsletter features a research study from Texas showing that students with Opportunity Culture teachers achieved higher reading and math achievement at all grade levels. Researchers Report Strong Student Learning Results in Texas Opportunity Culture District Researchers from Texas Tech University report that students served by Opportunity Culture multi-classroom leader teaching teams achieved learning growth […]
Gauging Success with the Highest-Need Students
This edition of our newsletter highlights our recent report and an accompanying panel discussion on achieving results with high-need students: Our Highest-Need Students: How Can Schools Deliver for Them Post-Pandemic? Public Impact and FutureEd teamed up last week to host a panel discussion on the new report from Public Impact and Education Analytics, Identifying Schools Achieving Great Results with Highest-Need Students. […]