{"id":1073,"date":"2024-07-12T17:28:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-newnexted.ws.asu.edu\/?page_id=1073"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:49:43","slug":"redesigning-education-for-learners-and-educators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/workforce.education.asu.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Redesigning education for learners and educators"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Teams make the job of teaching more sustainable and effective<\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Educators are burned out, unsatisfied and are leaving the profession. Fewer people are choosing to become teachers, leading to staffing shortages in U.S. schools. But, when schools are staffed by educator teams, teachers \u2014 and their students \u2014 thrive.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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With support from ASU, schools across the country are launching successful team-based staffing models<\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Arizona State University\u2019s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation works with schools to design and implement strategic school staffing models that help address root causes of low and inequitable student outcomes, teacher shortages and burnout.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Team-based staffing models are better for students and educators<\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Early research shows promising results: lower turnover rates and more support for educators; and academic growth and greater levels of engagement for students. Learn how these models are improving outcomes and experiences for both students and educators.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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We are all hard-wired as people to work together and yet, we ask our teachers to collaborate outside of the classroom absent of the children they\u2019re serving. The model must change. A remedy exists in the Next Education Workforce, which is changing the design of how teachers work and how they\u2019re supported. It could not have come at a more critical time.<\/p>

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McKinley Elementary and the \u2018Power of Four\u2019: How one Colorado school is embracing a team-teaching model<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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Jamie Davis and Cortney Richardson first explored team teaching at McKinley Elementary School when they were early career educators. Now, close to two decades later, Davis and Richardson are finding success launching and scaling a team teaching model in their school as the district's human resources director and school principal, respectively \u2014 this time, in partnership with Arizona State University\u2019s Next Education Workforce\u2122 initiative. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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A federal investment in strategic school staffing<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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The Teacher and School Leader Incentive program, known as TSL, has long been the federal government's primary vehicle for pushing that work forward. It is a competitive grant designed to help state and local education agencies redesign how they manage their educator workforce and how they compensate educators, and the 2026 competition adds something that hasn't been there before: For the first time, TSL explicitly incentivizes strategic school staffing as a design principle for how those systems are built.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\u2018A hallmark of high success\u2019: How Hoover Middle School is embracing interdisciplinary learning and collaborative team planning time through team-based models<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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Hoover Middle School was one of six schools within Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico to launch team-based strategic school staffing models in 2025. In this story, Hoover\u2019s leaders and four educators on the 6th-grade team \u2014 whose experiences span from one year to over two decades \u2014 share on their takeaways from their first year teaming and how the model is working to ensure that \u201cno student falls behind.\u201d\r\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Elements of the Next Education Workforce<\/h3><\/div>

There is no one-size-fits-all Next Education Workforce model. The diverse contexts, assets and needs of each school inform the design and implementation of each model. However, all Next Education Workforce models share several common elements. This document describes the Elements of the Next Education Workforce found across dozens of schools that have launched successful team-based models.<\/p><\/div>

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Mountain View High School leverages teams to create high-quality, interdisciplinary student experiences.<\/p><\/div>

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Dynamic student groupings<\/h3><\/div>

How do educator teams leverage dynamic student groupings, differentiate roles and responsibilities and facilitate fluid movement across flexible learning spaces? Explore snapshots of learning spaces to learn more.<\/p><\/div>

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