Audience: Elementary educators

Dynamic student groupings at Stevenson Elementary (Kindergarten)

Explore some of the ways an educator team grouped and regrouped 100 students over the course of a single day.

Extended cut: A perspective on strategic school staffing from national union leadership

How can collective bargaining promote strategic school staffing? In this extended cut, Rob Weil of the American Federation of Teachers joins Brent Maddin of the Next Education Workforce™ to discuss this and other issues educators face in the one teacher, one classroom model.

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Driving Academic Progress

Learn more about how one school system leveraged bus drivers as literacy tutors between driving shifts.

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An examination of teacher engagement in Next Education Workforce models

This study leverages longitudinal administrative data on teacher leave within a single district. We use a two-way fixed effect design to examine the relationship between Next Education Workforce model participation and teacher engagement.

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Results from a follow-up survey of Next Education Workforce teachers

This survey explores how Next Education Workforce team teachers compare to their district colleagues not on a Next Education Workforce team regarding teacher self-efficacy, job satisfaction, teacher-student interaction, and career plans.

Creating shared and flexible learning spaces: A continuum for rethinking space

Space matters, but not having the money to invest in learning space design shouldn’t stop you from launching team-based models. This continuum is a tool to support decision-making for a phased approach for transforming learning spaces. We believe there is a continuum on which each team-based learning environment sits. Where it sits is usually a function of the level of investment the school or school system can make in shifting learning spaces in ways that have a positive impact on educators and students.

Curated external resources

We’ve proposed lists of resources on deeper learning, personalized learning, and deeper and personalized learning in a virtual setting. These lists, while not comprehensive, have been curated to help educators target their searches.

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Gaining a deeper understanding of your team members

These two activities invite team members to gain a deeper understanding of one another, including backgrounds and context for teamwork.

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Relationships come first

Learn how MLFTC works with schools and other partners to 1) provide all students with deeper and personalized learning by building teams of educators with distributed expertise and 2) empower educators by developing new opportunities for role-based specialization and advancement.

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Community Circles

When a child enrolls at Jefferson Elementary, they are assigned to a community circle composed of at least one child from each grade level. Explore this resource to learn more about the program and its impact on learning for students and for staff.

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Literacy Accelerators

Two to four times per week, Skyline High School teacher academy students assume the role of community educator at their feeder school, Stevenson Elementary.

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Medical Innovations

To gain an understanding of a variety of medical conditions and how they affect the people who face them, the 4–6 grade teaching team assembled ten community educators to participate in interviews with their students.

Dynamic student groupings at Kyrene de las Manitas

At Kyrene de las Manitas, teams of educators incorporate dynamic student groupings into a shared roster of students.

Dynamic student groupings at Stevenson Elementary (5-6th)

Explore some of the ways an educator team grouped and regrouped 100 students over the course of a single day.

5 tips for community educators preparing to enter the classroom and other learning spaces

These five tips will help community educators prepare and feel ready to enter any learning space, have a successful experience and make lasting, meaningful connections with learners. This resource expands on helpful tips around translating industry expertise, managing the learning space, working with students during the visit and more.

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Results from the Year One Survey of Next Education Workforce Teachers

Educators in Next Education Workforce models are more satisfied, collaborate more and believe they have better teacher-student interactions than educators in traditional staffing models.

Using collaborative tools to implement data-driven flexible grouping

Explore how educator teams use cloud-based spreadsheets to fluidly and transparently group students by interest and skill.

Video: What is the Next Education Workforce?

How the Next Education Workforce initiative at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College works with schools and other partners.

Kyrene de las Manitas Innovation Academy: Spotlight on the schedule

Kyrene de las Manitas Innovation Academy in Tempe, Arizona serves about 400 students in Grades K–7. In this resource, explore the schedule and the school’s implementation of a Next Education Workforce model.

Kyrene de las Manitas Innovation Academy: School spotlight

Kyrene de las Manitas Innovation Academy is committed to engaging students in a dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence and prepares them to be innovators and leaders of tomorrow. In this resource, you’ll learn how they’re implementing a Next Education Workforce model.

Kyrene de las Manitas Innovation Academy: Learning space layout

At Kyrene de las Manitas Innovation Academy, about 400 students in Grades K–7 in multi-aged grade bands work with core teams of up to six educators: one teacher executive designer, two team teachers and one to three teacher candidates. Read on to learn about key elements of their learning space.