Opportunity Culture Audio
What do great Opportunity Culture® educators and their superintendents do, and what have they learned about successfully redesigning school roles to reach all students with excellent teaching? Opportunity Culture® Audio pieces bring their voices and advice to you, to help confront some of the stickiest issues facing education.
Opportunity Culture Audio
Latest Episodes
PA Needs Teachers—and Needs Them to Stay
When a coalition came together to form PA Needs Teachers in 2022, led by Teach Plus Pennsylvania and the National Center on Education and the Economy, it first advocated for policy wins around bringing teachers into the profession, such as stud...
When Districts Share Staff, Students and Teachers Win
When Rockingham County Schools, a rural North Carolina district, needed a teaching team leader with a record of high-growth learning for high school math, it faced a dilemma many rural areas confront: no candidate with that record of learning g...
In Mississippi, Responding to a Teacher Retention Crisis
In recent months, both Mississippi First and Teach Plus Mississippi have issued reports advocating for bold legislative action that would fund staffing redesign pilots, and they highlighted Opportunity Culture® design.In this audio piece...
“A Lever to Ignite Reading Achievement”: Deputy Superintendent Michael Cormack
At Jackson Public Schools in Mississippi, Deputy Superintendent Michael Cormack brought big changes to student outcomes—no surprise after his leadership of the Barksdale Reading Institute, which sparked the state’s stunning literacy turnaround....
A Rural “Force Multiplier”—Opportunity Culture® Design: Superintendent Anthony Jackson
Chatham County Superintendent Anthony Jackson, named as the 2020 North Carolina Superintendent of the Year while serving as superintendent of Vance County Schools, says districts—especially rural systems—can do far more if they focus investment...
