Next Education Workforce™

Stevenson Elementary is one of a growing number of schools deciding that teachers can’t—and shouldn’t—do their jobs alone, and reorganizing how teachers work to reflect that reali...

While most school and system leaders were trying to make sense of a vastly changed landscape in 2020, Andi Fourlis, the then-relatively new Superintendent of Mesa Public Schools, ...

The leadership team at Westwood abandoned the one-teacher, one-classroom model of staffing ninth grade and, instead, built educator teams that would each share a common roster. T...

The Future of Education with Michael B. Horn - Andi Fourlis, Superintendent of Mesa Public Schools in Arizona, joined me to share how her district is reimagining the teaching prof...

Mesa Public Schools’ diverse team teaching practices raise teachers’ job satisfaction while boosting academic support of students. Read full article

Giving teachers more control over their collaboration with peers may boost the effectiveness of teacher teams and encourage educators to stay in the classroom. Read full article...

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Dean Carole Basile and a team of faculty and staff developed the model in collaboration with Arizona school districts, like Mesa Public Schools, t...

The model, known as team teaching, isn’t new. It dates back to the 1960s. But Arizona State University resurrected the approach, in which teachers share large groups of students, ...

Breaking away from the one-teacher, one-classroom model enabled teachers at an Arizona elementary school to lean into their strengths and find greater professional satisfaction. ...

This study, conducted in the 2022–23 school year, aimed to examine the impact of team-based staffing models on the working conditions of special educators and their job performanc...

The teachers share large groups of students — sometimes 100 or more — and rotate between group instruction, one-on-one interventions, small study groups or whatever the teachers a...

One hundred thirty-five students, four teachers, one giant classroom: This is what ninth grade looks like at Westwood High School, in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school system. There,...

The Next Education Workforce initiative is an attempt to change that status quo. Westwood is one of 50 schools across 10 school systems that have put into practice the team-teachi...

Next Education Workforce staffing models 1) provide all students with deeper and personalized learning by building teams of educators with distributed expertise and 2) empower edu...

MESA, AZ — A new teaching model is being set up to help students and teachers across school districts in the state. Instead of using one teacher for one class, the Next Education...