Professional learning
Explore opportunities to launch team-based school staffing models, see innovative schools in action and more.
Prepare to launch team-based school models
Schools and systems work with the Next Education Workforce to design and implement staffing structures that address the root causes of low and inequitable student outcomes, teacher shortages and burnout.
Our multi-year model equips system-level leaders, school-level leaders and educator teams with tailored role-specific professional development. Our coaches support school leaders and educator teams every step of the way, helping you confidently navigate your first two years in a team-based staffing model.
What is the Next Education Workforce?
Explore how the Next Education Workforce Initiative is working to redesign education for educators and learners. Or, explore Elements of the Next Education Workforce found across dozens of schools that have launched successful team-based models.
Explore Experience
Learn about the elements of team-based models and consider if this approach is right for your school or system context.
Who: System-level leaders, school leaders, educators and community members
When: Offered monthly starting fall 2024
Format: On-demand access to virtual site visits and one 90-minute virtual session
System Readiness
Identify your level of system readiness and access tools to plan for and support change.
Who: System-level leaders
When: Offered bi-monthly starting in the fall and spring
Format: Two, 2-hour virtual workshops with work between sessions
Leader Launchpad
Design your school’s first team-based model(s) and plan the systems & structures to support your model.
Who: Primarily school leaders, but may also include system-level leaders, educators and other decision makers
When: January–February 2025 or March–April 2025
Format: Five, 90-minute virtual workshops
See Next Education Workforce models in action
Site Visits
Visit Arizona schools that are implementing team-based models.
These two-day events open with an introduction to the Next Education Workforce and feature site visits to either elementary or secondary settings. At each school, you will have the opportunity to tour the learning space and interact with school leaders, educator team members, and students. After the site visits, you will work with the Next Education Workforce team to consider how you can apply what you’ve learned to your own context.
Additional opportunities for schools and systems
Grant opportunity for California schools
The Next Education Workforce initiative and Thrive have joined to help California schools pilot, design and implement innovative staffing models.
Opportunity Now Colorado Grant Program
Colorado schools interested in launching at least one team can now receive a year of strategic planning and support.
AASA Learning Cohort
How do I learn more?
Join us for a free, monthly Next Education Workforce information session. These 1-hour virtual meetings include question and answer sessions with a member of the Next Education Workforce team.