Opportunties by role
Not sure where to begin? Find the resources and support you need to thrive with team-based Next Education Workforce school staffing.
Instead of asking all educators to be all things to all learners at all times, we need to unpack the tasks we ask each professional to do and reallocate those tasks, sustainably, across teams. Discover opportunities by role, whether you’re a school or system leader exploring team-based staffing models, a professional educator on a team in search of professional learning and resources, or a community member seeking rewarding part-time or volunteer work in schools.
School and system leaders
Team-based staffing improves educator working conditions and student outcomes. Learn how.
In Next Education Workforce models, schools leverage team-based staffing to improve both student outcomes and teacher working conditions. Explore how these models can engage learners and empower educators in your school system with one of the following opportunities:
Explore Experience
Learn about the elements of team-based models and consider if this approach is right for your school or system context. With this offering, you will:
- Watch virtual site visits in advance of the 90-minute synchronous session to see team-based models in action
- Hear from educators and leaders implementing team-based staffing models
- Explore how Next Education Workforce team-based models engage learners and empower educators
What: Complete the virtual site visit on your own schedule, then join us for one 90-minute virtual session offered monthly
Who: System-level leaders, school leaders, educators and community members
When: Offered monthly
Join the AASA Explore Cohort
Superintendents who are members of AASA are invited to explore team-based strategic staffing with this annual cohort hosted by the School Superintendents Association and Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. The program includes virtual and in-person sessions on topics including financial modeling, working with unions, space design, schedules and more.
Questions? Contact Jan Vesely, former superintendent and ASU–AASA Partnership Lead: jan.vesely@asu.edu.
Attend a site visit
See teams in action. Join us in Arizona for a two-day site visit to tour Next Education Workforce school sites.
Request information for your school or system
Email edworkforce@asu.edu to start planning with a member of the Next Education Workforce team.
Educator teams
Discover professional learning and resources designed for educator teams.
Access role-specific professional learning and resources designed to help educator teams thrive in Next Education Workforce models.
Learn the Foundations of Next Education Workforce Teams
This introductory course to team-based models is designed for current or aspiring educator team members. It unpacks the team-level Elements of the Next Education Workforce to prepare team members to contribute in each of these areas and be effective team members. Through this fully virtual, asynchronous course, you can expect to:
- Build your understanding of what it means to be a member of a team-based model
- Familiarize yourself with the Elements of the Next Education Workforce
- Use self-awareness and working with fear and discomfort as strategies to grow from where you are with respect to your understanding of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion
- Identify several concrete steps you can take to better prepare yourself to start or continue your work on an educator team.
Explore Experience
Learn about the elements of team-based models and consider if this approach is right for your school or system context. With this offering, you will:
- Watch virtual site visits in advance of the 90-minute synchronous session to see team-based models in action
- Hear from educators and leaders implementing team-based staffing models
- Explore how Next Education Workforce team-based models engage learners and empower educators
What: Complete the virtual site visit on your own schedule, then join us for one 90-minute virtual session offered monthly
Who: System-level leaders, school leaders, educators and community members
When: Offered monthly
Improve your practice in team-based models
Access professional learning for educator teams
When schools and systems participate in Next Education Workforce Launch Services, educators gain access to role-specific resources and professional learning.
Explore resources for educator teams
Uncover strategies, practices and tools to support your educator team.
Team-based practices
Team-based practices are approaches that leverage multiple adults in order to create deeper and personalized learning opportunities for students.
Dynamic student groupings
How do educator teams leverage dynamic student groupings, differentiate roles and responsibilities and facilitate fluid movement across flexible learning spaces? Explore snapshots of learning spaces throughout the day.
View more resources, including tools to help deepen and personalize learning, incorporating community educators into educator teams and more.
Community educators
Leverage community members in learning.
Community educators are families, tutors, mentors, and other caring community members who support student learning. In team-based models, these community educators add capacity to deepen and personalize learning as extended team members, complementing the work of professional educators to help meet the needs of all students.
The Next Education Workforce works with schools and school systems to pilot and scale team-based roles for community educators tailored to the goals and context of each school community.
Learn more about opportunities to leverage community educators as extended team members.
