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Search and download resources developed by Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. These PDFs, videos, slides and more support teams, schools, districts and educators seeking to learn about or help build the Next Education Workforce.
An examination of teacher engagement in Next Education Workforce models
The Next Education Workforce™ model represents an innovative reimagining of the traditional classroom and seeks to support increased student learning and teacher capacity. This study leverages longitudinal administrative data on […]
Topics:
Budget
Roles & Staffing
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Community Circles
When a child enrolls at Jefferson Elementary, they are assigned to a community circle composed of at least one child from each grade level. Explore this resource to learn more about the program and its impact on learning for students and for staff.
Costs and shifts calculator
Ready to consider the costs and shifts for your own Next Education Workforce model? In this Google Sheet, you’ll be able to describe your strategy, input the costs, make intentional […]
Topics:
Budget
Roles & Staffing
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Do now, build toward
District and school leaders across the country have the opportunity to fundamentally change existing structures by leveraging federal stimulus funds. Leaders designing and supporting Next Education Workforce team-based models can […]
Topics:
Budget
Roles & Staffing
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Financially sustainable staffing models
Leaders developing Next Education Workforce models are making decisions to create new educator roles, compensate educators for expertise, dynamically group students, and create additional planning time for educators. These decisions […]
Topics:
Budget
Roles & Staffing
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Kyrene de las Manitas Innovation Academy: School spotlight
Kyrene de las Manitas Innovation Academy is committed to engaging students in a dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence and prepares them to be innovators and leaders of tomorrow. […]
Lead teacher role description
Lead Teachers are educators who guide the educator team in sharing responsibility for all elements of student support, instructional planning, and delivery (e.g., lesson planning, instruction, data analysis); lead the […]
New support roles for educator teams in online & hybrid settings
Teaching in online and hybrid settings presents both new challenges and new opportunities for distributing expertise across educator teams. Community educators, teacher candidates, paraprofessionals, and existing non-instructional staff may be […]
Results from a follow-up survey of Next Education Workforce teachers
This survey explores how Next Education Workforce team teachers compare to their district colleagues not on a Next Education Workforce team regarding teacher self-efficacy, job satisfaction, teacher-student interaction, and career […]
Results from the Year One Survey of Next Education Workforce Teachers
Educators in Next Education Workforce models are more satisfied, collaborate more and believe they have better teacher-student interactions than educators in traditional staffing models.
The budget and the Next Education Workforce
Justin Wing, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources at Mesa Public Schools, shares two pieces of budgetary advice for districts considering moving to Next Education Workforce models.
Topics:
Budget
Roles & Staffing
Teacher candidates
Grade:
Elementary & Secondary
Westwood’s AVID Success Team: Teacher candidate roles
Westwood High School addressed unmet needs by partnering with MLFTC to deploy teacher candidates in new ways. In this document, you’ll get an overview of MLFTC’s approach to teacher candidate […]
Topics:
Roles & Staffing
Teacher candidates
Grade:
Secondary