Opportunity Culture Audio
What do great Opportunity Culture® educators and their superintendents do, and what have they learned about successfully redesigning school roles to reach all students with excellent teaching? Opportunity Culture® Audio pieces bring their voices and advice to you, to help confront some of the stickiest issues facing education.
Opportunity Culture Audio
Next-Level TAs: How a Coveted Role Helps Students Succeed
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It’s a winning formula: school paraprofessional + tutoring culture focus + support and training + pay supplement = a highly coveted role.
How do schools and students both win when districts begin using the Opportunity Culture® Reach Associate™ role? This audio version of our short publication “Next-Level TAs” explains, with input from district leaders and those who have taken the RA™ role.
From the district perspective: “It really helps to build our pipeline when there aren’t a lot of people out there just begging to become teachers,” and the RA™ perspective: “I’m more hands-on….It’s helping the children get to the next level and succeed.”
Related Links:
Publication | Next-Level TAs: How a Coveted Role Helps Students Succeed
Spotlight | Madison Parish School District
Video | From Reach Associate™ to Classroom Teacher (Edgecombe County Public Schools)
Video | Using Opportunity Culture® Roles to Support Science of Reading-Based Instruction (Wilson County Schools)
Video | Janie Martin on Being a Reach Associate™ (Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools)
Video | A “Crucial” Opportunity Culture® Role: Reach Associates Provide Small-Group Tutoring (Hertford County Schools)
Spotlight | Carlsbad Municipal Schools