The imperative to reimagine the teaching role.

All students deserve access to high-quality instruction that allows them to realize their full potential. To make it happen, teaching must become more collaborative, more sustainable and more consistently excellent. The Coalition to Reimagine the Teaching Role brings together a diverse array of partners to create the conditions for inspired teaching and excellent learning.

What is reimagining the teaching role?

Sometimes called “strategic school staffing,” reimagining the teaching role replaces the rigid and isolated model of teaching and learning to a more collaborative and dynamic approach that creates the time, space and flexibility to effectively implement high-quality instructional materials.

Source: Education First framework for strategic staffing

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How can public policy support reimagining the teaching role?

With flexibility to redesign educator roles and school schedules, support for adopting high-quality curricula, and funding and research to implement strategic models, policymakers can pave the way for a new vision of teaching and learning.

Read our policy agenda

What does the research say about reimagining the teaching role?

Early results from rigorous academic studies of leading-edge strategic staffing models are promising – with more to learn as new models emerge.

What does it cost to reimagine the teaching role?

By making strategic resource tradeoffs, system and school leaders are redesigning the century-old model of teaching with little to no new investment.

Read the financial sustainability form

Resources

Center for Reinventing Public Education
+ How unconventional educator roles pave the way for a more fulfilling and sustainable profession
+ How System Leaders are Scaling Up Strategic School Staffing Models
+ Early Evidence of Improved Student Outcomes in Next Education Workforce Models

Education Resource Strategies
+ A Vision for a Reimagined Teaching Job
+ How State and District Leaders Can Help

National Council on Teacher Quality
+ The Role of State Policy
+ Model Contract Language

Teach Plus
+ If You Listen, We Will Stay: Why Teachers of Color Leave and How to Disrupt Teacher Turnover (with the Center for Black Educator Development
+ Teachers Reimagining the Teaching Profession

Transcend
+ Transforming the Teacher Role

Educators for Excellence
+ The ABCs of CBAs: Designing Contracts for a Modern Classroom

Chad Aldeman
+ How Team-Based Teaching Can Support Student Learning and Reduce Teacher Burnout (The 74, September 24, 2024)

Pete Fishman
+ Why Now Is the Moment to Reimagine Teaching (New Schools blog, August 28, 2024)

Jen Holleran and Jill Norton
+ OPINION: In an era of teacher shortages, we must embrace and develop new ways to unleash educator talent (The Hechinger Report, September 5, 2023)

David Rosenberg and Karen Hawley Miles
+ ”Teachers Shouldn’t Have to be Superheroes to Get the Job Done.” (The 74, May 26, 2022)

Melissa Tooley
+ Showing Appreciation for Teachers by Making Their Jobs Even More Rewarding (New America, May 7, 2024)

Chris Torres and Mary E. Laski
+ Breaking the “Egg-Crate” Model of Schooling (ASCD, September 1, 2024)

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