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Strategic Staffing
Strategic staffing reimagines the traditional “one teacher, one classroom” model by creating team-based structures where educators with different expertise collaborate to support shared groups of students. These models aim to expand student access to effective teaching while creating more sustainable, supportive roles for educators, which is especially critical as teacher burnout and attrition reach historic highs. While some early research suggests that strategic staffing can improve student outcomes, the broader evidence base is still emerging. We invest in research to study the impact of strategic staffing investments to better understand if and how this approach can benefit students and educators.
Completed
Evaluating Opportunity Culture: Improving Student Achievement Through Strategic Staffing in West Texas
This four-year mixed-methods evaluation examines the effects of Opportunity Culture in Ector County ISD on student math and reading achievement.
Completed
Early Evidence of Improved Educator Outcomes in Next Education Workforce Models
This is a descriptive study that examined differences in outcomes for teachers in ASU Next Education Workforce strategic staffing models and teachers in non-Next Education Workforce settings that continued business-as-usual instruction.
Completed
Strategic School Staffing Solutions
This is a landscape scan of strategic staffing models, conducted by Education First, which aimed to learn how to better meet the needs of students by redesigning critical adult roles and ensuring that those roles are attractive, sustainable, and professionally rewarding.
Completed
Team-Based Staffing Models Can Make Schools Work Better for Both Learners and Educators
This is a policy paper and literature review on the state of the U.S. education workforce.
Completed
Reaching Further and Learning More? Evaluating Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture Initiative
This study examines the impact of Opportunity Culture staffing models, which extend the reach of effective teachers through team-based leadership structures, on student achievement.
In Progress
Evaluating the Impact of the Next Education Workforce Model on Student and Teacher Outcomes
This study evaluates the impact of a strategic staffing model, ASU Next Education Workforce, on student achievement and educator outcomes, including teacher retention, satisfaction, and instructional quality.
In Progress
Evaluating the Impact and Implementation of the Inspired Teaching, Exceptional Learning Initiative
This study evaluates a multi-site initiative combining high-quality instructional materials, strategic staffing, and professional learning to improve teaching quality and student outcomes.
Open Research Questions
Completed study findings aligned with this question in our repository include:
- Early Evidence of Improved Educator Outcomes in Next Education Workforce Models
- Team-based Staffing Models Can Make Schools Work Better for Both Learners and Educators
- Reaching Further and Learning More? Evaluating Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture Initiative
- Evaluating Opportunity Culture: Improving Student Achievement Through Strategic Staffing in West Texas
In-progress studies that address this question are:
Completed study findings aligned with these questions in our repository include:
- Early Evidence of Improved Educator Outcomes in Next Education Workforce Models
- Team-based Staffing Models Can Make Schools Work Better for Both Learners and Educators
In-progress studies that address these questions are:
Completed study findings aligned with this question in our repository include:
In-progress studies that address this question are:
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