Designing the Next Education Workforce

Stevenson Elementary in Mesa Public Schools in the Phoenix metropolitan area has successfully transitioned to team-based staffing models school-wide under the leadership of Principal Krista Adams. Mesa Public Schools – the largest school district in Arizona – has made a bold commitment to begin moving 50% of their schools to Next Education Workforce models in the next five years. Dr. Brent Maddin, Executive Director of the Next Education Workforce, at Arizona State University joins us in this episode. 

The default one-teacher-one-classroom model of schooling is unsustainable for most educators. By providing team-based staffing in every classroom, The Next Education Workforce models 1) provide all students with deeper and personalized learning by building teams of educators with distributed expertise and 2) empower educators by developing new opportunities to collaborate, grow, and advance in the profession.

This innovation of team-based teaching began as a pilot in 2019 in one school, and by Fall 2021 the work has expanded to nearly 30 schools across 5 school districts impacting over 260 educators and 6600 students. It plans to expand its model to California and other states with the goal of launching models with at least 50 district partners in the next five years.

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