Blog posts by: Brent Maddin
Beyond the roster: Rethinking how we dynamically group students and assign educators
What might seem like a scheduling tweak is actually a structural foundation for transformation. When the same educators share the same students during the same blocks of time, they can move beyond coverage to connection, beyond sorting to support. Dynamic student grouping is an instructional move grounded in the belief that students deserve not just one educator, but a team of educators who know them, coordinate around them and respond to their needs.
How legacy software holds schools back — and how smarter systems could move them forward
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a new report published in collaboration with Common Group and Siegel Family Endowment, we explore the need to rethink outdated administrative software.
Three lessons learned from building hundreds of team-based school staffing models
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?