Perspective Perspective | Consistency and care: Confronting COVID-19 in a rural school community by Sharon Barrett | April 22, 2020 During the coronavirus crisis — and any future periods of at-home teaching and learning — rural school districts face special...
Perspective Perspective | Keep doing what worked: Advice for at-home learning by Sharon Barrett | April 6, 2020 Keep doing what works: For Erin Burns Mehigan, that message has been central to her school’s shift to at-home teaching...
Perspective Perspective | Putting data in its place: How strong teaching teams use data to achieve student growth by Sharon Barrett | March 18, 2020 Can deep dives into large flows of student learning data actually lower teacher stress? Successful multi-classroom leaders, who lead small...
Perspective Perspective | Can I really keep at this? What kept one great teacher in the classroom by Steven Kennedy | February 24, 2020 Opportunity Culture kept me from leaving the classroom. When our first child was born, my wife and I discussed our...
Perspective Perspective | Suspending student suspensions: How teaching teams created calm classrooms by Philip Steffes | December 4, 2019 How can kids learn when they’re not in the classroom? That’s the issue I confronted when I arrived at Albemarle...
Perspective Perspective | The killer app for digital learning at scale: Human connection by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan C. Hassel | November 19, 2019 Digital learning has gotten a bad rap, in some cases reasonably so, especially for the lack of results with disadvantaged...
Perspective First look: Remotely located teacher leadership by Sharon Barrett | May 8, 2019 This semester, the College Board and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) joined with Public Impact’s Opportunity...
Opportunity Culture dashboard updates data on nationwide initiative: High-growth student learning, strong teacher support, 56K students reached by Staff | March 6, 2019 The following is a press release from Public Impact. Public Impact, which created and leads the national Opportunity Culture initiative,...
Perspective Closing achievement gaps in diverse and low-poverty schools by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan C. Hassel | September 4, 2018 Education leaders in North Carolina and across the U.S. have spent decades highlighting and attempting to close achievement gaps, focused...
Perspective Keep your yardsticks off teachers’ careers, unless . . . by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan C. Hassel | August 28, 2015 Numerous commentators, experts, and teachers themselves have offered critiques of teacher evaluation. Critiques aren’t limited to 1.0 evaluation systems. New...
Perspective Digital providers: Let great teachers drive technology use, get results by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan C. Hassel | August 24, 2015 What should we take away from News Corp.’s recent announcement that it is writing off losses stemming from its digital...
