Tag: distributed expertise
‘A hallmark of high success’: How Hoover Middle School is embracing interdisciplinary learning and collaborative team planning time through team-based models
Hoover Middle School was one of six schools within Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico to launch team-based strategic school staffing models in 2025. In this story, Hoover’s leaders and four educators on the 6th-grade team — whose experiences span from one year to over two decades — share on their takeaways from their first year teaming and how the model is working to ensure that “no student falls behind.”
When teams and curriculum move together: Early lessons from ITEL AZ
Early lessons from ITEL AZ demonstrate how educator teams and high-quality instructional materials can work together to strengthen grade-level instruction.
A Q&A with the authors of ‘Unlocking the Potential of Team-Based Staffing’
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.