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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.

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Opportunity Culture Spreads in Arkansas, North Carolina with State Support

January 28, 2021

By Public Impact After the continued promising results in Opportunity Culture schools in their states and around the country, Arkansas and North Carolina have awarded grants to seven districts to design their Opportunity Culture plans for implementation in 2021–22. Opportunity Culture schools use new roles—based on the cornerstone role of Multi-Classroom Leadership—to reach many more students with excellent, personalized instruction. These roles, which have produced outstanding student growth, provide intensive support to all teachers, paid…

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Opportunity Culture: Teaching, Leading, Learning

November 18, 2020

By Public Impact Why and how should you use Opportunity Culture? Watch our two-part video to get the scoop! What barriers keep teachers and students from experiencing great support and strong learning outcomes? Part 1 highlights barriers that an Opportunity Culture can remove. Part 2 details how an Opportunity Culture provides on-the-job, consistent support for all teachers to reach many more students with excellence, learn more, and earn more https://vimeo.com/479896629 Watch Part 1 https://vimeo.com/479899151 Watch…

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Explore Eight Years of Data in Interactive Restart Dashboard, Progress Report

October 13, 2020

By Paola Gilliam and Sharon Kebschull Barrett When a school struggles to support student learning year after year, schools need dramatic changes, but for too long the choice seemed to be to close the school or attempt an internal turnaround. How has the third option—restarting a school with the same students but with a new operator and flexibilities—made a difference to student success? Read our new study analyzing the progress of restarts that began between…

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New Report Highlights Charter Successes During Covid Shutdowns

August 25, 2020

By Paola Gilliam A sudden shift in the spring to effective online learning challenged all schools—but we quickly began to see anecdotal evidence of some charter schools reacting quickly and serving students well. In a new report we wrote with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, we offer evidence that some charter schools—smaller networks and schools that make up the majority of charters—were able to respond quickly to students’ and families’ needs, taking advantage of…

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Database of State Reopening Plans Shows Alarming Lack of Clear Expectations for Student Learning

July 29, 2020

Without decisive state expectations and action on remote learning, student learning will suffer: That’s the message from a new analysis of state reopening plans by CRPE (the Center for Reinventing Public Education) and Public Impact. Our just-released database of state reopening plans and accompanying blog post highlight the need for state action now, before it’s too late. As CRPE’s Ashley Jochim and Public Impact’s Bryan C. Hassel and Beth Clifford detail, state recommendations focus more on the logistics of…

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Pinpointing Problems in COVID Response Plans

June 22, 2020

“Student learning is an afterthought in many state reopening plans; that’s a huge mistake” We’ve been working with the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) to create a database of all states’ reopening plans, accompanied by a series of briefs and analyses. The database will be published soon. Meanwhile, a new blog by CRPE’s Ashley Jochim and Georgia Heyward and Public Impact’s Beth Clifford provides a peek at the early findings. “CRPE and Public Impact…

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Committing to Anti-Racism: Public Impact’s Statement

June 2, 2020

The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor are the tip of a mammoth iceberg of racial injustice in our nation. Behind these three injustices are millions of others, large and small, that, when unaddressed, leave those in power unchecked and emboldened to perpetuate more. As loud as the shouting of protestors may be right now, the sound of silence at the routine, everyday wrongs is the most deafening. When a Black man…

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3 Model Options Give Schools Budget-Neutral Plans, Schedules, Roles for Partial School Closures

May 15, 2020

Districts and schools are confronting the learning loss caused by missed school time so far. Opportunity Culture schools—90 percent of which are Title I—have a special responsibility and opportunity to reverse that learning loss with the same method they’ve used for years: highly connective, high-standards instruction that helps more students achieve high-growth learning. Multi-Classroom Leadership by teachers with a high-growth track record is the foundation. What can that look like if some students and teachers need to…

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How NC Districts Handle Closures, and Next Steps—New Database From Public Impact and EdNC

April 24, 2020

By Paola Gilliam To understand how North Carolina’s 115 school districts are dealing with school closures, Public Impact and EducationNC joined forces to develop the NC District Response to COVID-19 School Closures Database. Read more about the database below, as well as an opinion piece on what the data tell us so far from Public Impact’s co-presidents. Why a Database? We decided to do this after seeing the informative database that the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) developed last…

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More Stories and Tips from Top Educators

April 20, 2020

By Paola Gilliam Opportunity Culture Fellows are educators with a track record of high-growth student learning who lead more students, fellow teachers, and, as principals or assistant principals, whole schools. This week, we added to the collection of stories and tips from these field leaders focused on helping students learn—and supporting their social-emotional health—no matter what challenges they or their students face. See links below to each educator’s story. They all shared their thoughts on what schools…

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On the Ground: Reflections from Opportunity Culture Educators on At-Home Teaching and Leading

April 3, 2020

By Paola Gilliam Over the past week and a half, Public Impact’s Sharon Kebschull Barrett has interviewed many current and past Opportunity Culture Fellows about their shifts to at-home learning—what’s going well, what worries them, and what tips they have for other Opportunity Culture educators and districts. Use this link to find these stories of how great teachers adapted in the early weeks after school closures—four columns so far, with more to come next week, including some from Opportunity…

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