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For Turnaround Teachers and Teacher-Leaders

School turnarounds happen when teachers adopt new instructional and classroom management approaches that help students learn and develop strong behavioral, social and emotional skills for success—fast. This takes a concerted effort with strong leadership and persistent, achievement-oriented collaboration among teachers.

Here, we include materials for Opportunity Culture schools, which extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets. All teachers can advance in their careers without leaving the classroom. Advancement allows teachers to earn more and reach more students, and development toward excellence becomes possible for all. Teacher-leaders called multi-classroom leaders have been instrumental in producing high-growth learning fast in Opportunity Culture schools.

Tools

Resources to help teachers and teacher-leaders:

 

Thought Leadership

In turnaround schools, teacher-leaders such as multi-classroom leaders are an essential component of an Instructional Team of Leaders (ILT) to improve the instructional practice of all teachers and deploy school-wide initiatives. For more information on Instructional Team of Leaders, click here.

 

Teachers will find more resources and materials on OpportunityCulture.org, where models to extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams are explained in detail.

 

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