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Who’s in your neighborhood? Leveraging your community to empower educators and learners
How can school systems leverage their communities to create deeper and more personalized learning for all students? One answer is to empower families, tutors, mentors and other community members with teaching and learning strategies that are easy to access and immediately put into practice with children.
Team teaching model is associated with higher job satisfaction for educators
Compared to other teachers in the same district, teachers that participate in Next Education Workforce™ team-based staffing models are more likely to say they would recommend teaching as a profession and plan to still be teaching in five years. These teachers on teams also received higher teacher evaluation ratings than non-teamed teachers.
Introducing the Community Educator Learning Hub
Community educators, the professionals and volunteers who assist with instruction, can now turn to this award-winning catalog of short, interactive nanocourses to access training designed to help them more effectively engage learners.
Crossing the chasm: How one district is moving its innovative staffing model from pilot to mainstream
To transition pilot programs into core school system operation, leaders need the support of staff members who may not jump at the chance to innovate.
Momentum builds around new school staffing models
Around the world, educators are breaking from traditional structures used to staff classrooms. A movement is building as schools and systems pursue transformational changes to meet the needs of all students and make the job of teaching more attractive and sustainable.
Re-designing the role of a special educator through team-based staffing
Special educators face a unique set of job demands that set them apart from their general education colleagues. Key findings from a 2022-23 school year study underscore the effectiveness of teaming as a strategy to integrate and enhance the role of special education teachers, yielding benefits for school leaders, parents, teachers and students alike.
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September 30, 2024
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