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Op-Eds & Articles

Below are some of the most recent op-eds and articles written by Public Impact. To read more, searchable by topic, visit our resource database.

With pioneering collaboration, districts share excellent educators

March 18, 2025

From EdNC, March 18, 2025 by Bryan Hassel and Sharon Contreras Are school districts that face a shortage of qualified teacher-leaders simply stuck? For districts using Opportunity Culture strategic staffing models, not anymore. Leaders in Edgecombe and Rockingham county districts, supported by our organizations, are collaborating and expanding the reach of excellent…

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For collaborating districts, cohorts have power to address teacher shortages, student outcomes

March 18, 2025

From EdNC, March 18, 2025 by Sharon Contreras and Bryan Hassel No school wants to gamble with their students’ futures. But when teacher shortages loom — with educators leaving the profession and fewer graduates opting to make the classroom their career — schools confront tough odds. Too often, schools are trying to find…

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Perspective | Creating a ‘tutoring culture’ — for all, by all

July 8, 2024

By Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan C. Hassel; published by EdNC, July 8, 2024 Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars will evaporate from the U.S. economy due to permanent learning shortfalls post-COVID, by McKinsey’s calculation. Research has shown high-dosage tutoring is crucial to addressing these shortfalls. In effective high-dosage tutoring,…

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Engagement, Demographics, Academic, Economics—School Needs Index a New Way to Gauge Success in Serving Students With the Greatest Challenges

June 14, 2021

By Bryan Hassel and Greg Lippman; published in The 74. A version of this essay originally appeared on the FutureEd blog. We have heard a great deal over the course of the pandemic about learning loss. But while the negative impact of COVID-19 on students of all kinds is becoming increasingly…

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Cost-Effective Ways to Rethink School Staffing

October 1, 2020

By Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel; first published in Education Week. Even before COVID-19 sent students and educators home, teachers’ jobs had grown increasingly complex. Rightful demands for standards matching those of other nations—and for equitable opportunities allowing students to meet or exceed those standards—swelled over recent decades. With…

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Will Learning Pods Be Only for the Rich?

August 25, 2020

By Bryan Hassel and Sharon Kebschull Barrett; first published in Education Week. To exhausted or worried parents deciding whether to send their children into school buildings this fall, “pandemic pods” may look like an appealing way out. Keeping their boys and girls at home learning alone may be better for…

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States: It’s not too late to guide districts on teaching and learning

August 4, 2020

By Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel; first published by CRPE, August 4, 2020 One striking finding of the CRPE and Public Impact review of state reopening plans is what’s not there: the primary purpose of schools, teaching and learning. During COVID-19, states are giving districts only minimal guidance and…

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North Carolina district responses to COVID-19: An updated database from EdNC and Public Impact

June 29, 2020

By Molly Osborne, Jessica Struhs, Troy Smith and Beth Clifford; first published on EdNC. In March 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) released “District Responses to COVID-19,” an online database tracking how some of the nation’s largest public school districts have shifted instruction, student support, and organizational operations in response to COVID-19 school closures….

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Putting Data In Its Place How Strong Teaching Teams Use Data To Achieve Student Growth

March 18, 2020

By Sharon Kebschull Barrett; first published in EducationNC. Can deep dives into large flows of student learning data actually lower teacher stress? Successful multi-classroom leaders, who lead small teaching teams in data analysis, say yes. When schools focus on small teams led by highly successful teachers, they help address the concerns…

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The Killer App for Digital Learning at Scale: Human Connection

November 19, 2019

By Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel; first published in Education NC. Digital learning has gotten a bad rap, in some cases reasonably so, especially for the lack of results with disadvantaged learners. Meanwhile, alarms are sounding about the rise of online screen time co-timed with surges in anxiety, depression, suicide and insomnia among…

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