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In this Q&A, co-authors Brent W. Maddin, Lennon Audrain, Lisa Maresso Wyatt and Kaycee Salmacia share the experiences that helped shape the book and their work with the Next Education Workforce; what they hope school and system leaders will take away from the book; and why this book is important, especially now. 

Every year, the Strategic School Staffing Summit brings together hundreds of educators, leaders, policymakers and advocates who are rethinking how schools are staffed. The Call for Proposals to present at the Summit is now open.

In a short video, educators and leaders at the Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences share how they’re redesigning roles, collaborating in new ways and building stronger support systems for students and teachers alike through Next Education Workforce™ team-based models.

New research from the Center for Reinventing Public Education highlights the promise of team-based staffing models in tackling one of education’s most persistent challenges: teacher retention.

Pilot teams at schools in Concord, Michigan, and the Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences are part of a broader initiative supporting schools as they explore, design and implement team-based staffing models, through a partnership between Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce™ and the Michigan Education Workforce Initiative, launched in spring 2024. 

The Community Educator Learning Hub, an award-winning online learning platform developed by Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce™, received an investment from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation to provide scholarships for organizations training student success coaches. With a goal of supporting up to 2,500 student success coaches by December 2026, the grant provides open access to the Hub, including the 12-nanocourse Student Success Coach collection.