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How we support schools

We’ll help you launch strategic school staffing models to improve outcomes and experiences for educators and students.

Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College works with schools to design and implement team-based models that address the root causes of low and inequitable student outcomes, teacher shortages and burnout. Start by exploring team-based strategic school staffing with our virtual Explore Experience. Then, work with members of the Next Education Workforce team to build readiness and create a plant to launch your first team-based model.

As you launch, you’ll have a few options for how to continue working with our team. Explore Launch Services for 1:1 virtual coaching and professional learning. Or, consider Implementation Coaching for on-site support. Whichever option you choose, we’re here to support you every step of the way so that you can launch with confidence.

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EXPLORE

Start here

Explore Next Education Workforce team-based models and consider what strategic staffing could look like in your context.

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PREPARE

Your planning year

Prepare to launch your model by building readiness, creating a plan and catalyzing change.

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LAUNCH

Your first two years

Launch your models with 1:1 support and role-specific resources and professional learning.

Explore team-based models

Register for an Explore Experience to start exploring team-based school staffing.

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

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Prepare to launch your first team

After the Explore Experience, you’ll begin preparing for your launch of team-based models.

System Readiness workshop series

Identify your level of system readiness and access tools to plan for and support change. During these workshops, you will identify and cultivate system readiness by:

  • Mapping current system readiness against a set of criteria
  • Developing a plan to increase system readiness
  • Developing a high-level implementation strategy
  • Developing a plan to engage your community and schools in the move toward implementation

What: Two, 2-hour virtual workshops with work between sessions

Who: System-level leaders leaders working with a broad, local coalition that may include school leaders, educators, parents, community members

When: Offered multiple times each year throughout the fall and winter

Leader Launchpad workshop series

Design your school’s first team-based model(s) and plan the systems and structures to support your model. During these workshops, you will prepare to pilot your model by:

  • Clearly identifying what outcomes team-based staffing will help improve 
  • Identifying in which grades and with which educators you will pilot team-based staffing 
  • Creating a master schedule that prioritizes co-planning and a plan to maximize existing space
  • Drafting a plan for engaging your school community
  • Connecting with other leaders implementing team-based models in their schools

What: Five, 90-minute virtual workshops

Who: Primarily school leaders, but may also include system-level leaders, educators and other decision makers

When: Offered multiple times each year throughout the spring

Launch team-based models

With Next Education Workforce Launch Services, a coach will help you confidently launch and refine your implementation of team-based models.

Launch Services

With Next Education Workforce Launch Services, your entire system — educators, school-level and system-level leaders — gain access to a full year of role-specific virtual professional learning and resources. Explore dates and details. These offerings are designed to accelerate your school’s transition to team-based staffing. You can expect to:

  • Launch team-based models with greater confidence
  • Unlock personalized support and insights via a monthly call with your ASU coach
  • Accelerate a culture of collaboration
  • Connect with other innovative leaders

Launch Services are available via a one-year service agreement for schools that have participated in System Readiness and Leader Launchpad workshops and demonstrate system and school readiness to launch team-based models.

Already a Launch Services partner? Register now for professional learning, communities of practice and other events just for Launch Services participants.

What: One-year service agreements to equip your school's leadership and teams with coaching and professional learning

Who: Educator teams, school leaders and system-level leaders

When: Year-round

Implementation Coaching

Strengthen the launch of your team-based school staffing model with on-site support from an ASU coach. Experienced Next Education Workforce coaches can provide both virtual and on-site coaching that will help you and your school confidently launch team-based models. You can expect:

  • Support at your school site
  • School-specific agendas co-created by your ASU coach and the school leadership team
  • Observation and feedback to identify areas of strength and opportunity
  • Virtual reflection sessions for educator teams

Implementation Coaching is available as an add-on to Launch Services. Travel expenses are paid by ASU.

What: On-site coaching at your school

Who: School leadership and educator teams

When: Year-round

Summer Institute

Lay the groundwork for a successful academic year with your educator team.

Summer Institute for Educator Teams

The three-day virtual Summer Institute provides educator teams and school leadership with tools and strategies to foster a collaborative culture, center your efforts on equity and set a vision for learners in the year ahead. You can expect:

  • A multi-day, interactive event hosted by the Next Education Workforce initiative to bring educator teams and their school leaders together
  • Opportunities to build team culture and enable educators to distribute their expertise to deepen and personalize student learning
  • Opportunities to work with the Next Education Workforce team to consider how you can apply what you’ve learned to your own context

What: Launch Services includes registration for up to 20 participants to this three-day virtual event; additional seats can be purchased at a reduced rate

Who: Educator teams and their school leaders

When: Summer, typically June and/or July

Find more professional learning and events

Browse dates and details for more offerings and events from ASU’s Next Education Workforce.

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What educators and leaders are saying

I never want to go back to single me in a classroom. I am better with my team.

Educator on a grades 7 and 8 team

Teachers again are excited and that is boiling over to our students being excited.

High school vice principal

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