CCSD Launches NEW Teacher Career Pathway

The Clarke County School District is excited to launch Opportunity Culture, a new teacher career pathway, to positively impact our students and community. LEARN MORE! Sign up for an informational webinar.

To provide all students with excellent teaching and to help students close achievement gaps and leap ahead, our schools are using Opportunity Culture models for their teachers and students. Opportunity Culture models enable schools to reach every student with excellent teachers and their teams —consistently — while paying teachers more for their extra responsibilities and helping all educators improve on the job and work collaboratively. All pay supplements are funded through reallocations of existing budgets – no temporary grants.

Opportunity Culture models create new roles for teachers — through a foundation of the Multi-Classroom Leader role — and support staff, and they carefully integrate technology to save teachers time and help individualize instruction, often through small groups. The most effective teachers are responsible not only for helping more students, but also for helping their peers achieve teaching excellence. Research has shown large student learning gains for students on Multi-Classroom Leader teams.

In each Opportunity Culture school, a team of teachers and administrators adopts new roles to reach more students with teachers who have produced high-growth student learning. The team decides what reallocations to make to fund higher-paid roles, how to design school schedules for collaboration at school, how fast to reach all students with excellent teaching, and other design elements. Four schools will pilot the new career pathway in the 2024-2025 school year: Clarke Central High School, Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School, Timothy Road Elementary, and Winterville Elementary.

Click on the dropdown tabs below to learn more about the different Opportunity Culture roles, qualifications, and pay supplement information.

Opportunity Culture Roles

Multi-Classroom Leader 2
Pay

Teacher scale pay + $12,000 yearly supplement + 5 Days

Responsibilities

The Multi-Classroom Leader 2 (MCL 2) is expected to intensively coach 5-8 teachers on their caseload and teach students through various models. The MCL 2 is also responsible for leading a team of teachers and other support staff responsible for multiple classrooms as well as teaching students within the team to meet the principal’s standards of excellence. The MCL 2 co-plans, co-teaches, models, coaches and gives feedback, and leads and supports the team. The MCL 2 also teaches students part of the time.

Under the school administration's supervision, the MCL 2 establishes each team member’s roles and goals, determines how students spend time, and organizes teaching roles to fit each teacher’s strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. The MCL 2 organizes the team to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high-progress learning for every child. The MCL 2 works collaboratively with the team, using the team’s new ideas and innovations that the MCL 2 agrees may improve learning.

The MCL 2 is accountable for the learning and development of all the teachers and students on their caseload and team. The MCL 2 also provides feedback to the school administration regarding the progress of the students and teachers within their caseload.

Qualifications
- 5 years of teaching experience
- Professional teacher certification
- 2 years of high-progress student outcomes
- Evidence of initiative
- Evidence of effective leadership/coaching of adults
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Learn More: Sign up for an upcoming informational webinar!
Multi-Classroom Leader 1
Pay

Teacher pay scale + $9,000 yearly supplement + 5 Days

Responsibilities

The Multi-Classroom Leader 1 (MCL 1) is expected to intensively coach 2-4 teachers on their caseload and teach students through various models. The MCL 1 is also responsible for leading a team of teachers and other support staff responsible for multiple classrooms as well as teaching students within the team to meet the principal’s standards of excellence. The MCL co-plans, co-teaches, models, coaches and gives feedback, and leads and supports the team. The MCL 1 also teaches students part of the time.

Under the school administration's supervision, the MCL 1 establishes each team member’s roles and goals, determines how students spend time, and organizes teaching roles to fit each teacher’s strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. The MCL 1 organizes the team to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high-progress learning for every child. The MCL 1 works collaboratively with the team, using the team’s new ideas and innovations that the MCL 1 agrees may improve learning.

The MCL 1 is accountable for the learning and development of all the teachers and students on their caseload and team. The MCL 1 also provides feedback to the school administration regarding the progress of the students and teachers within their caseload.

Qualifications
- 5 years of teaching experience
- Professional teacher certification
- 1 year of high-progress student outcomes
- Evidence of initiative
- Evidence of effective leadership/coaching of adults
Apply Now: Click HERE!

Learn More: Sign up for an upcoming informational webinar!
Reach Teacher 2
Pay

Teacher scale pay + $6,000 yearly supplement

Responsibilities

Under the supervision and support of school leadership or a Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL), the Reach Teacher 2 (RT 2) expands their reach to impact more students by directly teaching more students and taking on formal instructional leadership responsibilities, above that of a typical teacher position.

The RT 2 is responsible for planning, preparing, and delivering instruction and monitoring student progress to determine instructional needs. The RT 2 works closely and collaboratively with a team of teachers and other staff members to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high progress and enriched learning for every child. *Note: This position can coach 1 other teacher if reasonable release time is provided.*

Minimum Qualifications
- 3 years of teaching experience
- Professional teacher certification
- 1 year of high-progress student outcomes
- Evidence of initiative and leadership of adults
Apply Now: Click HERE!

Learn More: Sign up for an upcoming informational webinar!
Reach Teacher 1
Pay

Teacher scale pay + $4,000 yearly supplement

Responsibilities

Under the supervision and support of school leadership or a Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL), the Reach Teacher 1 (RT 1) expands their reach to impact more students by directly teaching more students and taking on formal instructional leadership responsibilities, above that of a typical teacher position.

The RT 1 is responsible for planning, preparing, and delivering instruction and monitoring student progress to determine instructional needs. The RT 1 works closely and collaboratively with a team of teachers and other staff members to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high progress and enriched learning for every child. *Note: Coaching other teachers is not an option in this role.*

Minimum Qualifications
- 3 years of teaching experience
- Professional teacher certification
- 1 year of high-progress student outcomes
- Evidence of initiative and leadership of adults
Apply Now: Click HERE!

Learn More: Sign up for an upcoming informational webinar!

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