Introducing the Community Educator Learning Hub
Strong connections between schools, school systems and communities enhance student experiences. But how do we create and strengthen those connections? Community educators can help. Community educators are the professionals and volunteers who assist with instruction,...Momentum builds around new school staffing models
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....Re-designing the role of a special educator through team-based staffing
At a glance This study, conducted in the 2022–23 school year, aimed to examine the impact of team-based staffing models on the working conditions of special educators and their job performance. Key findings underscore the effectiveness of teaming as a strategy to...The Next Education Workforce podcast is back
What are experts from across the education landscape saying about strategic school staffing? We invited three experts to join us on the Next Education Workforce™ podcast for a miniseries on strategic school staffing as we prepare for the virtual 2024 Strategic School...
Providing equitable instruction through team-based models
Carole Basile, Dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, 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.
Q&A: The multi-year life-changing work of building a Next Education Workforce school
Tom Fletcher serves as the principal of Ronald Reagan Elementary School in Yuma, Arizona. 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.
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 Teachers College has collaborated with more than twenty 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?