Tag: New Mexico
‘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.”
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 staffing gets a federal nod
Recent federal guidance, via a new letter from the U.S. Department of Education, creates new opportunities to use Title II funds to support redesigned educator roles and team-based instructional models.