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Teacher Workforce Innovation

At CRPE, we study how the teacher workforce can evolve to meet students’ changing needs and create more sustainable roles for educators. Our research explores new staffing models, including ASU’s Next Education Workforce™, that reimagine how adults collaborate in schools—shifting away from the one-teacher, one-classroom model toward team-based approaches that expand instructional capacity and support. We examine how these innovations can improve teacher retention, elevate the profession, and ensure that students have access to diverse expertise. By analyzing emerging models and their impact, we aim to understand how the education workforce can be redesigned to better serve both students and educators.

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Teachers Alone Can’t Address the Literacy Crisis

Ashley Jochim

This commentary was originally published by EdSource.  Improving literacy instruction is once again in fashion among America’s policy circles. Between 2019 and 2022, state legislatures passed more than 200 bills that sought to push and pull public schools to embrace the “science of reading.” But one year into closely following a big city school district’s effort to remake literacy instruction as part of a project with the Center on Reinventing Public Education, I can’t help but think these well-intended legislative efforts ignore the larger problem: teachers working alone in their classrooms are ill-positioned on their own to provide the support children most need to learn to read.

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Crossing the Chasm: Moving Innovative Staffing Models from Pilot to Mainstream

Steven Weiner, Lydia Rainey, Lisa Chu

This blog is part of our series profiling three school systems several years into implementing workforce innovations or strategic staffing solutions.

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Leader-to-Leader Collaboration: Real Talk, Real Results

Lakisha Young

This past November was a dream come true for The Oakland REACH—and for me as a leader. For two days, leaders from Rochester, Birmingham, New Orleans, Greenville, Jacksonville, Providence, Boston, and San Francisco, Richmond, and Oakland, CA, gathered together for our first-ever REACH Way Institute (RWI).

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Breaking the Teaching Mold—with Help from the Teachers’ Union

Lisa Chu, Lydia Rainey, Steven Weiner

This blog is part of a three-part series profiling school systems that have been implementing workforce innovations or strategic school staffing models for several years.

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The Rise of Unconventional Teaching Roles: How Do Educators Feel?

Steven Weiner, Robin Lake

Many are talking about ways to rethink the role of teaching these days, whether by reorganizing teachers into teams, leveraging community educators, or allowing teachers to teach in unconventional school models like micro-schools.

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Teachers and Tutors Together: Reimagining Literacy Instruction in Oakland

Ashley Jochim, Eupha Jeanne Daramola, Morgan Polikoff

High-quality tutoring has become a critical tool for addressing pandemic learning gaps and accelerating student learning, but access to tutoring programs remains an issue.

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Communities in the Driver’s Seat: Intensive Training, Deep Investment Power Oakland Parent-Led Literacy Programs

Travis Pillow

Across the country, school systems are struggling to implement effective, research-based literacy instruction and to help students recover from lost learning time during the pandemic.

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Teaching, Reinvented: How Unconventional Educator Roles Pave the Way for a More Fulfilling and Sustainable Profession

Steven Weiner

As school systems struggle to recover from years of disruption, new programs, policies, and nontraditional organizations that support innovation in the teaching role will need to grow to support all students’ learning.

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Don’t Just Engage Families: Liberate Them

Lakisha Young

I set out to reflect on parent engagement as we settled into another school year in the U.S. where 84% of Black eighth-graders lack proficiency in reading.

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Unconventional Private Schools Attract Parents with Tailored Offerings—Public Schools Can, Too

Chelsea Waite

Small learning environments that operate outside public schools—such as microschools, hybrid homeschools, and learning pods—exploded into broad public consciousness during the pandemic.

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