Next Education Workforce: Team-Based Strategic Staffing to Improve Outcomes for Teachers & Students
To deliver meaningful and equitable learning outcomes, we need to redesign the profession, the workplace and how we prepare people for both.
The default one-teacher, one-classroom model of schooling is unsustainable for most educators. As a result, our education system does not reliably deliver learning outcomes and experiences for nearly enough people. With the disruptions caused by COVID, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity – and obligation – to fundamentally redesign how we staff schools.
Teams of Educators with Distributed Expertise
We believe that teams of educators who share a common, larger roster of students can work together to deliver better outcomes for learners and make the job of teaching more rewarding and sustainable. Teams of educators capitalize on their distributed expertise. Team-based models allows teachers to lean into their strengths. Furthermore, if an educator is absent, the team can dynamically adjust to minimize disruptions to learning.
Learning Cohort
- Hear from superintendents and principals who have designed team-based staffing models
- Hear from educators about their experiences working in team-based staffing models
- Learn about the core elements of team-based models and see multiple examples of these models in action
- Receive concrete resources for creating instructional, staff, budget, and communication plans
- Determine in which schools your school system might launch team-based models
- Receive free registration to the February 2024 Next Education Workforce National Summit and invitations to site visits hosted by ASU and Arizona school systems
At the culmination of this cohort experience, participants will take a differentiated pathway based on their readiness to pilot team-based staffing models in the 25-26 school year.
This is a virtual experience and registration is accepted on a rolling basis! As part of this cohort, you'll have an explore session, a system readiness workshop, and complimentary access to the Strategic School Staffing Summit.
1. Start with an Explore Experience: You'll learn about the elements of team-based models and consider if this approach is right for your school or system context.
Registration is accepted on a rolling basis. You can begin on one of the following dates:
- October 21, 2024
- November 18, 2024
- December 9, 2024
- January 13, 2025
- February 18, 2025
- March 18, 2025
- May 19, 2025
2. Move into a Next Education Workforce™ System Readiness Workshop: In this workshop, you'll identify your level of system readiness for team-based strategic school staffing models and access tools to plan for and support change.
- November 7 + December 4, 2024
- January 28 + February 5, 2025
- March 5 + April 1, 2025
Partners
Details
October 1, 2024 to May 1, 2025
$2,000
Member Price
$2,000
Non-Member Price
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Register TodayContacts
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Debbie Magee
Director, Leadership Network
AASA, The School Superintendents Association
703-875-0716
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Jan Vesely
AASA Liaison with the Next Education Workforce
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School Spotlights
See Next Education Workforce models in action. These spotlights show how different schools are applying Next Education Workforce principles to better support learners and educators.
