Category: About strategic school staffing

If you’re interested in how schools are redesigning teaching through team-based models, the Strategic School Staffing Summit is the easiest way to see what’s happening across the country without leaving your desk. Learn more about the four content tracks and get a preview of who will be presenting.

Using the “three horizons” framework, Executive Director Brent Maddin reflects on how Next Education Workforce™ models are bridging today’s schools to a more student-driven future.

Susana Córdova, Colorado’s Commissioner of Education, will join Dean Carole Basile of Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation for the Strategic School Staffing Summit keynote conversation.

North Dakota has become the first state to secure approval from the U.S. Department of Labor for a new apprenticeship program for teacher leaders, a project developed with the support of Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce™ initiative.

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.

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. 

From filmstrips to flipped classrooms, the arc of educational technology often tends to reinforce the usual ways of doing school. While tools like AI hold great promise, their effectiveness depends on both the structures of schooling — how we organize time, roles and relationships — and the systems that undergird those structures: the policies, assumptions and routines that determine what school looks like.

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.

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.

“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 Community Educator Learning Hub’s high-impact tutoring nanocourses and a new micro-credential are providing new career advancement and learning opportunities for tutors across the country.

The Strategic School Staffing Summit 2025, hosted by Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce, will take place Feb. 5-6 and feature more than 40 sessions highlighting important topics relating to innovative team-based staffing.

A new report highlights Next Education Workforce models as an example of strategic staffing that’s more attractive to teachers and more effective at meeting student needs.

In a recently published guide from the National Council on Teacher Quality, the Next Education Workforce™ was highlighted as one of four approaches to transforming the teaching role through strategic staffing.

Around the world, educators are breaking from traditional structures used to staff classrooms. A movement is building as schools and systems pursue transformational changes to meet the needs of all students and make the job of teaching more attractive and sustainable.

Special educators face a unique set of job demands that set them apart from their general education colleagues. Key findings from a 2022-23 school year study underscore the effectiveness of teaming as a strategy to integrate and enhance the role of special education teachers, yielding benefits for school leaders, parents, teachers and students alike.

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.