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Classified staff — including paraprofessionals, custodians and bus drivers — are crucial members of school communities. Arizona State University’s Community Educator Lab is helping school leaders best leverage them to support students and educators.

Carole Basile, Dean of the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, joined the Remaking Tomorrow podcast to discuss the future of the educator workforce and the importance of recognizing the structural challenges that educators face within the current one-teacher, one-classroom model. 

Tom Fletcher serves as the principal of Ronald Reagan Elementary School in Yuma, Ariz. Reagan Elementary has begun to implement Next Education Workforce team-based staffing models, which has required buy-in from educators, students and parents, as well as some creative problem solving.

The 2024 speaker lineup for the 2024 Strategic School Staffing Summit includes nearly 100 researchers, educators, school and system leaders. Cindy Marten, the 11th United States Deputy Secretary of Education, will deliver the keynote.

Leaders from Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation presented at the Aurora Institute Symposium 2023, sharing how equitable learning outcomes require systemic innovation across three levels: the science of learning, instructional practice and organizational design.

Next Education Workforce™ site visits give leaders across the educational landscape who are interested in exploring and implementing team-based staffing models an opportunity to see them in action. Attendees are also able to speak directly with principals and educators who have designed team-based models for their specific context and attend educator and student panels.