Category: Strategic school staffing

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‘No shortage of innovation’: A closer look at the Strategic School Staffing Summit 2025

The Strategic School Staffing Summit 2025, hosted by Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce, will take place Feb. 5-6 and feature more than 40 sessions highlighting important topics relating to innovative team-based staffing.

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School and system leaders on the shift to strategic school staffing

School and system leaders share their experiences launching team-based strategic staffing models in new Next Education Workforce™ Virtual Site Visits videos.

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Teachers want collaborative and dynamic work environments

A new report highlights Next Education Workforce models as an example of strategic staffing that’s more attractive to teachers and more effective at meeting student needs.

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How strategic staffing can attract and retain effective teachers

In a recently published guide from the National Council on Teacher Quality, the Next Education Workforce™ was highlighted as one of four approaches to transforming the teaching role through strategic staffing.

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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.

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Re-designing the role of a special educator through team-based staffing

Special educators face a unique set of job demands that set them apart from their general education colleagues. Key findings from a 2022-23 school year study underscore the effectiveness of teaming as a strategy to integrate and enhance the role of special education teachers, yielding benefits for school leaders, parents, teachers and students alike.

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2024 Strategic School Staffing Summit speakers announced

The 2024 speaker lineup for the 2024 Strategic School Staffing Summit includes nearly 100 researchers, educators, school and system leaders. Cindy Marten, the 11th United States Deputy Secretary of Education, will deliver the keynote.

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How does your work advance strategic school staffing?

The Strategic School Staffing Summit hosted by the Next Education Workforce™ is inviting proposals for live, virtual sessions on Feb. 7–8, 2024.

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 20 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?