Reaching Every Student with an Excellent Teacher Presentation to Project L.I.F.T. October 7, 2011

1. Reaching Every Student with an Excellent Teacher Presentation to Project L.I.F.T. October 7, 2011

2. Today’s Excellent Teachers

3. Consistent Excellence Makes the Difference Students who…

4. Impact of “Solid” vs. “Excellent” Teachers In contrast, when children have solid teachers who achieve a year’s worth of growth per year… Overall, U.S. students end up where they started out in life—the antithesis of the American Dream.

5. If only 20-25% of teachers produce gap-closing, bar-raising progress… • …only 20-25 % of students make gap-closing, bar-raising progress. Our Challenge • We can move this number, but probably not past 40%. • We HAVE TO move this number!

6. What If …. You COULD put your already excellent teachers in charge of the learning of every student in your school….. • Not by just cramming all the students into their classrooms, but by: • Redesigning jobs, roles, and schedules • Using technology

7. In-Person Reach Extension Reaching Many More Students We call this “extending the reach” of excellent teachers to more students. • Remote Reach Extension • Boundless Reach Extension • Combinations

8. Reach Extension: In-Person

9. Reach Extension: Remote

10. Reach Extension: Boundless

11. Reach Extension: Combinations

12. The Goal: Excellent Teachers For All • All models have one aim: Putting an excellent teacher—one who produces high-growth learning—in charge of every child’s instruction. • At the same time, most models create new, focused roles for solid teachers in which they can contribute to excellence while developing their own capacity.

13. Opportunity Culture Initiative With funding from Carnegie Corporation of NY, Gates Foundation, and Joyce Foundation: • Create & publish starting “models” of how schools can reach all students with excellent teachers • Create and publish detailed tools for some models (schedules, job descriptions, budgets) • Identify five partner-sites who make a strong commitment to reaching all with excellence

14. Partner Site Commitments • Reach more children successfully with excellent teachers.  • Pay excellent teachers more for reaching more children successfully. • Achieve permanent financial sustainability within budgets from per-pupil funding. • Include roles for other educators that enable them to learn and contribute to excellence. • Clarify the fully accountable adult for each student/subject, and what people, technology and other resources (s)he can choose and manage.

15. Creating the Conditions • Strong leadership from the top of the organization • Committed external funders / supporters • Committed school principals • Ability to clear any policy barriers that keep excellent teachers from reaching students • Dedication of staff and/or consultants to support and coordinate design & implementation

16. Discussion • Clarifying questions? • What models sound promising and helpful in your schools? • What would you need as school leaders to put these concepts into action?

17. Resources Hassel, B. C., & Hassel, E. A. (2011). Seizing opportunity at the top: How the U.S. can give every child an excellent teacher. Chapel Hill, NC: Public Impact. http://opportunityculture.org/seizing-opportunity-at-the-top Hassel, B. C., & Hassel, E. A. (2010). Opportunity at the top: How America’s best teachers could close the gaps, raise the bar, and keep our nation great. Chapel Hill, NC: Public Impact. http://opportunityculture.org/images/stories/opportunity_at_the_top-public_impact.pdf Hassel, E. A., & Hassel, B. C. (2009). 3X for all: Extending the reach of education’s best. Chapel Hill, NC: Public Impact. http://opportunityculture.org/images/stories/3x_for_all-public_impact.pdf Weisberg, D., Sexton, S., Mulhern, J., & Keeling, D. (2009). The widget effect: Our national failure to acknowledge and act on differences in teacher effectiveness. New York: The New Teacher Project. http://widgeteffect.org/ McKinsey & Company (2009). The economic impact of the achievement gap in America’s schools. http://www.mckinsey.com/app_media/images/page_images/offices/socialsector/pdf/achievement_gap_report.pdf See complete references in Seizing Opportunity at the Top, at opportunityculture.org.

18. www.publicimpact.com