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Search and download resources developed by Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. These PDFs, videos, slides and more support teams, schools, districts and educators seeking to learn about or help build the Next Education Workforce.
Benefits of teaming: Educator retention, educator leadership opportunities, & student learning
Justin Wing, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources at Mesa Public Schools, shares three benefits of Next Education Workforce models — educator retention, educator leadership opportunities, and student learning.
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What is the Next Education Workforce?
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Costs and shifts calculator
Ready to consider the costs and shifts for your own Next Education Workforce model? In this Google Sheet, you’ll be able to describe your strategy, input the costs, make intentional […]
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Budget
Roles & Staffing
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Do now, build toward
District and school leaders across the country have the opportunity to fundamentally change existing structures by leveraging federal stimulus funds. Leaders designing and supporting Next Education Workforce team-based models can […]
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Budget
Roles & Staffing
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Financially sustainable staffing models
Leaders developing Next Education Workforce models are making decisions to create new educator roles, compensate educators for expertise, dynamically group students, and create additional planning time for educators. These decisions […]
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Budget
Roles & Staffing
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Lead teacher role description
Lead Teachers are educators who guide the educator team in sharing responsibility for all elements of student support, instructional planning, and delivery (e.g., lesson planning, instruction, data analysis); lead the […]
Mentoring residents in team-based staffing models
Residencies are backed by a strong evidence base across a range of outcomes (Azar, Grossman, Lozier & Scheib, 2021). This resource proposes new opportunities to better support teacher residents through […]
One lead teacher’s approach to scheduling co-planning time
Mountain View School kindergarten lead teacher Danielle Ashenbrener shares how her team, which includes MLFTC teacher candidates, built common planning times into their schedule and describes how they use this […]
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Teacher candidates
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Teacher candidate team profile: Copper Trails second grade team
The second-grade team at Copper Trails School in Goodyear, Arizona, comprises one lead teacher, one certified teacher, and three teacher candidates. Together, they support 75 students total across two learning […]
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Teacher candidates
Grade:
Elementary
Teacher candidate team schedule: Copper Trails second grade team
The second-grade team at Copper Trails School in Goodyear, Arizona, comprises one lead teacher, one certified teacher, and three teacher candidates. Together, they support 75 students total across two learning […]
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Grade:
Elementary
The impact of teaming on the role of the school leader
Krista Adams talks about how her role as principal of Stevenson Elementary School has shifted as her school has adopted a Next Education Workforce model.
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Educational leadership
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
The impact of the teaming model on teams with teacher candidates
Here, Kelly Owen, Clinical Assistant Professor and Senior Program Strategist, describes the impact of Next Education Workforce models on Lead Teachers, Teacher Candidates and students.
Topics:
Teacher candidates
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary