Redesigning education for learners and educators
To deliver meaningful and equitable learning outcomes, we need to redesign the profession, the workplace and how we prepare people for both.
Why build the Next Education Workforce™?
The challenge
Nationally, teacher preparation programs have long seen declining enrollment. Teachers switch careers or retire early. They receive less pay and enjoy less social status than many other professionals. We ask teachers to be all things to all people at all times. The job is hard in specific ways that inhibit success. As a result, our education system does not reliably deliver quality learning outcomes and experiences for nearly enough people and communities.
Meeting the challenge
To build the Next Education Workforce, Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College works with schools and other partners to 1) provide all students with deeper and personalized learning by building teams of educators with distributed expertise and 2) empower educators by developing better ways to enter the profession, specialize and advance.
Join the movement
Fall 2023 Learning Cohort Accelerator
Explore launching team-based models in Fall 2024 and beyond
Join system and school leaders from across the country on Nov. 16 for this one-day virtual session on team-based school staffing models. Participants typically include: superintendents, heads of human resources, heads of curriculum and instruction, or innovative building-level leaders and teacher leaders who were not able to attend our fall 2023 Learning Cohort series.
Resources
From the blog
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 twenty 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?
Featured events
Next Education Workforce site visits: Models in action
What do Next Education Workforce models look like in action? Join us to visit schools that are implementing team-based models.
- Who is it for? Educator teams; school and school system leaders
- What is the time commitment? 2 days
- What is the format?In-person
- What is the cost? $400 including transportation between schools, breakfast and lunch
Next Education Workforce Summit 2024
Help transform education with innovative, team-based school staffing.
Join educators and leaders from across the country at the Next Education Workforce Summit 2024. When you participate in this one-and-a-half-day virtual Summit, you'll hear from leaders in the field, researchers, educators, school and system leaders, and so much more.