When Rockingham County Schools, a rural North Carolina district, needed a teaching team leader with a record of high-growth learning for high school math, it faced a dilemma many rural areas confront: no candidate with that record of learning growth who was also ready to lead adults. 

The Remotely Located Multi-Classroom Leader® role came to the rescue. Public Impact® designed this MCL™ role to allow a team leader in another school down the street or across the state or country to remotely lead a teaching team. So the Rockingham and Edgecombe County districts joined forces, with a proven Edgecombe County team leader taking on a two-person math team in Rockingham as well, providing coaching and guidance to quickly improve instruction for a first-year teacher and a veteran teacher who had not previously taught high school.

Get a quick overview of how the districts worked together and the results for Rockingham’s teachers and students in this podcast with Moriah Dollarhite, Rockingham’s human resources director.

“It was something that was definitely a nontraditional approach. But I think what helped was being transparent about the challenges we were facing and staying focused on the why. We weren't trying something new just to innovate. We were trying to ensure that our teachers and students had access to that high-quality support. And once people understood that, they began to see that there was going to be some great results in it, and that encouraged the buy-in.”

—Moriah Dollarhite, director of human resources, Rockingham County Schools 

Opportunity Culture®, Public Impact®, and Multi-Classroom Leader® are terms used in this podcast for which Public Impact® holds a registered trademark, and MCL™ is a trademarked term.

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