Tag: Colorado

A car is parked behind a sign for McKinley Elementary School.

McKinley Elementary and the ‘Power of Four’: How one Colorado school is embracing a team-teaching model

Jamie Davis and Cortney Richardson first explored team teaching at McKinley Elementary School when they were early career educators. Now, close to two decades later, Davis and Richardson are finding success launching and scaling a team teaching model in their school as the district’s human resources director and school principal, respectively — this time, in partnership with Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce™ initiative.

Susana Cordova and Carole Basile talk via Zoom.

How the 2026 Strategic School Staffing Summit reflects a turning point in the field

The seventh annual Strategic School Staffing Summit, hosted by Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce™ initiative, took place Feb. 4–5, 2026, and featured more than 30 virtual sessions on how schools, systems and states are building and sustaining team-based staffing models, reflecting a field gaining traction and moving toward scale.

Strategic School Staffing Summit graphic

Susana Córdova to keynote the Strategic School Staffing Summit 2026

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.