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Welcome to our blog, offering news and views from the Public Impact team. Questions or concerns? Contact editor Sharon Kebschull Barrett.

Our most recent blog posts are below. For more, searchable by topic, visit our resource database. To read more posts about our Opportunity Culture initiative, go here.

Scaling up the best parts of learning pod staffing

June 30, 2022
New from Public Impact and the Center on Reinventing Public Education:How could the best aspects of learning pod staffing be scaled up? “Pandemic pods” created new opportunities for adults interested in supporting children’s education. In these pods—established by families, school districts, and microschools—teachers had the chance to work with much smaller groups of students than usual, specialize in specific aspects of the broader teaching role, work a part-time schedule, and play a lead role in deciding …
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Arkansas, Texas, Virginia, and North Carolina School Systems Join National Opportunity Culture Initiative

May 12, 2022
Eleven school districts and a charter management organization in Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Arkansas are the latest to join the national Opportunity Culture initiative, led by Public Impact, which extends the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets. Some sites also include yearlong, paid residencies for aspiring teachers, allowing them to learn on the job in a teaching team led by an excellent teacher. Fifty-five …
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Annual Opportunity Culture Dashboard 2021-22 Update: Opportunity Culture Growth—By the Numbers

May 12, 2022
As districts seek innovations to bolster student academics and bring support and joy to students and teachers, the Opportunity Culture model continues to spread and produce results, even in another challenging pandemic year. Each year, Public Impact analyzes Opportunity Culture data to improve its materials and its work with schools and districts. With the overarching goal of reaching all students with high-growth learning, Public Impact has expanded the Opportunity Culture initiative’s participating schools (including those committed …
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Research Maps Supports Needed to Sustain Learning Pods

April 13, 2022
When Covid forced students to learn from home in spring 2020, families were left largely on their own to figure out how to fill the gaps in school structure and supports, leading to the emergence of learning pods. Some of these small learning communities continued into fall 2021, either because of continued pandemic uncertainty or because of their potential value as part of a new structure for public education. What supports could make it possible for learning …
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New on the Opportunity Culture Blog: Keeping Kentucky’s Teachers; Hear & Read Principals Reflect

February 28, 2022
Don’t miss the latest posts on the Opportunity Culture website! Keeping Kentucky’s Teachers: How Opportunity Culture Roles Could Help When the Northern Kentucky Tribune took a look at why schools struggle to retain teachers, Data Editor Jan Hillard noted several “best-practice solutions,” including Opportunity Culture models. Hillard highlighted Opportunity Culture roles, such as Multi-Classroom Leadership, as a way to improve career advancement and development. Redesigning a school using Opportunity Culture models can address all of the solutions Hillard noted—improving support for new teachers; improving …
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January Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Connect with Your OC Community & Share Strategies!

February 3, 2022
The January Opportunity Culture newsletter includes opportunities for community, a reflection from educators on continued pandemic challenges, tools and videos for educators, Opportunity Culture news, and more. Featured stories include: “Everybody is Traumatized”: Opportunity Culture Fellows on Keeping On By Sharon Kebschull Barrett, January 25, 2022 With ongoing Covid-related stresses this year, many Opportunity Culture educators have wondered how much their challenges match those of other Opportunity Culture schools. Before the winter break, educators from multiple cohorts of Opportunity Culture …
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Upcoming Events with Public Impact Leadership

January 31, 2022
The Opportunity Culture Model: Public Impact Co-President Bryan Hassel will be a featured expert at the Next Education Workforce Summit, February 2–3, hosted by Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Read his Q&A where he discusses the Opportunity Culture initiative. Trends in the Teacher Workforce: Tune in to an online panel February 23 moderated by Public Impact Senior Vice President Alison Harris Welcher, focused on “headwinds and opportunities to ensure equitable access to effective teachers in North Carolina.” Panelists include Meghan …
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New Report: The Impact and Outcomes of Full-Day Kindergarten

January 14, 2022
In a state where only 42 percent of kindergartners scored at or above grade level on the state’s Reading Indicator in fall 2020, the need for more and better early education is clear. Research shows that attending full-day kindergarten boosts students’ academic outcomes, self-confidence, and ability to work and play with other children.  Yet Idaho is one of 8 U.S. states that does not provide funds for all districts to offer some form of full-day …
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Tuesday Webinar to Address Innovations in Curricula and Professional Learning Post-Covid

November 1, 2021
Public Impact Co-President Bryan Hassel will join a panel on Tuesday, November 2, on “Learning at Home and in the Classroom: Innovation in Curricula & Professional Learning,” hosted by the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. Hassel will share how Opportunity Culture roles can help with teacher shortages, what professional development looks like on Opportunity Culture multi-classroom leader teams, and more. Register for the webinar here. From the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading: Learning at Home and …
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Multiple Groups Recommend Opportunity Culture Models as a Covid Recovery Strategy

October 28, 2021
As districts continue to cope with a drawn-out end to the pandemic and worsening staff shortages, education research groups, advocacy organizations, and state and federal offices have publicized strategies for Covid recovery—with many suggesting Opportunity Culture models as one strategy to consider. U.S. Department of Education, Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time (page 16)The U.S. Department of Education suggests schools and districts take a creative approach to staffing to …
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Researchers Report Strong Student Learning Results in Texas Opportunity Culture District

September 29, 2021
Researchers from Texas Tech University report that students served by Opportunity Culture multi-classroom leader teaching teams achieved learning growth in the top quartile teamwide, on average, according to their study of the Ector County Independent School District’s first Opportunity Culture year. The district asked the researchers to conduct an independent review of its first eight Opportunity Culture schools, which began using Opportunity Culture roles in 2020–21 with 27 multi-classroom leaders. In those first schools, 72% of students—7,121 out …
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Growing Opportunity Culture Residencies in Texas

July 22, 2021
Bringing a fresh approach to teacher training, five more Texas school districts will be providing yearlong, paid teacher residencies on teaching teams led by excellent teachers in the 2021–22 school year, by implementing Opportunity Culture roles in partnership with local universities and US PREP National Center (University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation). The national Opportunity Culture initiative, led by Public Impact, is now in more than 45 districts and charter school organizations in 10 states. Opportunity Culture teaching roles …
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The 2021 National Cohort of Opportunity Culture Fellows

June 17, 2021
By Public Impact Public Impact announces with pleasure the seventh cohort of Opportunity Culture Fellows, made up of eight principals who have achieved strong results in their schools and districts. Fellows provide support to their cohort, take one another’s ideas back to their schools, write columns or lead webinars about their experiences, and speak locally and nationally about their Opportunity Culture roles. Their feedback and leadership are invaluable in helping to improve the Opportunity Culture initiative, and …
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Annual Opportunity Culture Dashboard Update Highlights Growth, Educator Support in 2020–21

May 13, 2021
By Public Impact 510+ schools committed to Opportunity Culture3,400+ teachers with advanced roles or on-the-job development83,000+ students reached by excellent teachers extending their reach$9.2 million in extra pay for teachers in 2020–21; $29.9 million since Opportunity Culture began49 Opportunity Culture sites in 10 states—and growingStrong educator support: 98% of surveyed multi-classroom leaders & 90% of all staff on multi-classroom leader teams want Opportunity Culture to continue in their schools In 2020–21, Opportunity Culture roles continued to provide …
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Federal Policy for Opportunity Anew

March 11, 2021
By Public Impact In the wake of Covid-19, the U.S. pre-K–12 education system needs more than a refresh. We need to think anew. In a new Public Impact brief, we recommend the means through federal policy to bring critical, effective instructional and emotional supports to millions of teachers and their students—for a price tag the country can not only afford, but sustain long-term. Read Opportunity Anew: How Excellent Educators Can Lift Up Their Colleagues, Students, and the Nation in the Wake …
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