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If we want to scale promising staffing models and other student-centered innovations, we can’t keep relying on software tools designed for the past. In a new report published in collaboration with Common Group and Siegel Family Endowment, we explore the need to rethink outdated administrative software.

Jennie Clausen, a parent of three kids at Hermosa Vista Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz., was once strongly opposed to the school’s move to team-based staffing models. Now, she’s a proud self-proclaimed “teaming convert.”

“School Rethink 2.0” gathers insights and advice from nearly a dozen leaders, entrepreneurs and practitioners including Brent Maddin, executive director of ASU’s Next Education Workforce™.

The two-day virtual Strategic School Staffing Summit 2025, hosted by ASU’s Next Education Workforce™ and now in its sixth year, had nearly 500 registrants and featured more than 100 presenters.

Dr. Joseph Sirven, the Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, is Arizona State University’s Strategic School Staffing Summit 2025 keynote speaker.

The Next Education Workforce™ is the strategic school staffing initiative of Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, which, as of Jan. 13, 2025, will be known as the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation.