Category: How we support schools

An upcoming webinar hosted by the leaders of the Community Educator Learning Hub, an award-winning online learning platform developed by the Next Education Workforce, will highlight resources relevant to CTE education professions pathways.

Pilot teams at schools in Concord, Michigan, and the Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences are part of a broader initiative supporting schools as they explore, design and implement team-based staffing models, through a partnership between Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce™ and the Michigan Education Workforce Initiative, launched in spring 2024. 

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. 

In this Q&A, Nick Carson, the assistant director of regional implementation support for the Next Education Workforce™, answers questions about the initiative’s Leader Launchpad workshop, including why it was created, what changes have been made to the offering and what he’s most excited about.

Nearly 70 educators and school and system leaders attended the Next Education Workforce™ initiative’s November Site Visit, joining a growing number of out-of-state, and even out-of-country, educational innovators coming to Arizona to see team-based strategic school staffing models in action. And the reason they can come see these models in action can be attributed largely to the Mesa Public Schools district that decided to take a big step forward in transforming how it supports its students and educators.

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.

Next Education Workforce’s Virtual Site Visits allow participants to watch three innovative, team-based school staffing models in action.

How can school systems leverage their communities to create deeper and more personalized learning for all students? One answer is to empower families, tutors, mentors and other community members with teaching and learning strategies that are easy to access and immediately put into practice with children.

Community educators, the professionals and volunteers who assist with instruction, can now turn to this award-winning catalog of short, interactive nanocourses to access training designed to help them more effectively engage learners.

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.

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.