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With the assistance of an Opportunity Now grant, rural Colorado schools will be able to explore teaching in team-based models with the Next Education Workforce™ initiative at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. Here, Andrea LaRocca, senior program manager for the Next Education Workforce, shares how teams of educators with distributed expertise can be more effective, support equity and improve learning outcomes. Learn more about the model and how rural Colorado schools can access resources to get started. 

For the last four years, the Next Education Workforce™ team at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation has collaborated with more than 20 school systems across a dozen states to help build team-based staffing models in more than 80 schools. When we say, “team-based staffing models,” what do we really mean?