Opportunity Culture (OC) Initiative
Extending the reach of excellent teachers and their teams.
The Opportunity Culture initiative helps highly skilled, master teachers keep making a direct impact on students while giving them opportunities to increase their responsibilities—and compensation.
MCLThe multi-classroom leader (MCL) leads a small team of teachers, paraprofessionals, and teaching residents in the same grade or subject to meet the MCL’s standards of excellence. MCLs establish each team member’s roles and goals at least annually, determine how students spend time, and organize teaching roles to fit each teacher’s strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. The MCL is fully accountable for learning and development of all students taught by the team members. Each MCL helps choose and evaluate team members and leads their development, and dismisses low performers when necessary (all in cooperation with the principal).
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RAThe reach associate (RA) typically provides both instructional and noninstructional support to a team of teachers, as designated by the team’s multi-classroom leader, with a focus on providing small-group tutoring under the guidance of the multi-classroom leader’s team. (S)he also aids instruction by supervising time on projects, skills practice, and digital learning. (S)he works closely with the teaching team to complete various administrative tasks and noninstructional paperwork. (S)he manages procedures and supervises student behavior during transitions, lunch, recess, assemblies, and other unstructured activities, and while teacher(s) deliver instruction
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TRT
The Team Reach Teacher (TRT) serves on a multi-classroom leader’s (MCL’s) team, directly teaching more students than usual, but typically without raising instructional group sizes. With guidance from the team’s MCL, the TRT plans and delivers instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between face-to-face learning with the teacher and digital or offline learning supervised by a paraprofessional known as a reach associate or a teacher resident. While one class of students is with a reach associate, the TRT teaches another class of students, focusing on delivering personalized and enriched instruction.
The Team Reach Teacher (TRT) serves on a multi-classroom leader’s (MCL’s) team, directly teaching more students than usual, but typically without raising instructional group sizes. With guidance from the team’s MCL, the TRT plans and delivers instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between face-to-face learning with the teacher and digital or offline learning supervised by a paraprofessional known as a reach associate or a teacher resident. While one class of students is with a reach associate, the TRT teaches another class of students, focusing on delivering personalized and enriched instruction.