Advanced Teaching Roles in Nash County Public Schools

What is Opportunity Culture?

Our district has partnered with Public Impact's Opportunity Culture to establish structures for instructional leadership and professional development inside of all schools participating in the ATR program.

Opportunity Culture extends the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets. OC helps teachers to continue to make a direct impact on ALL students while also providing teachers with opportunities to increase their responsibilities. For more information visit the Opportunity Culture Website.

Key Principles

Teachers lead the way. Each Opportunity Culture school creates a team of teachers and administrators who decide which aspects of the model fit their school best.
Many more students are reached with excellent teaching. Excellent teachers—those who typically make about 1½ years of progress each year with their students—reach more students directly or by leading teaching teams.
In most cases, large, permanent pay supplements are funded through reallocations of current school budgets, making the higher pay sustainable.
Teachers gain more protected, school-day planning and collaboration time, achieved through careful scheduling, and clarity about how to use that time.
Accountability matches the responsibilities of each person. Teachers can focus on their best subjects and roles, with accountability matching what they take on.

Why Should You Join Opportunity Culture?

Opportunity Culture schools offer innovative team-based roles that allow teachers to lead from the classroom, learn on the job, pursue teaching excellence together, and earn significantly more for reaching more students. All roles are funded sustainably at the school level, rather than with temporary grants.

Nash County Public Schools is committed to providing all students with the best possible educational experience from excellent teachers and teacher teams. We value teachers and commit to paying teachers more who extend their reach and positively impact student learning, and we will provide protected time and clarity for the planning, collaboration, and development of all staff.

Opportunity Culture Roles

Multi-Classroom Leader

The MCL is a teacher with a track record of high-growth student learning who leads lesson planning data analysis, and instructional changes for a small teaching team. They are responsible for organizing the team to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high-progress learning for all. The MCL takes full accountability for the learning and development of all students taught by team members. MCLs provide their team with on-the-job development, support, and feedback, and MCLs receive their own on-the-job development from an assigned school leader.

Reach Associate

Reach Associates support MTRT/TRTs and MCLs and leads by assisting with instruction and facilitating small and large group learning, with and without technology. Additionally, the RA supervises student behavior during transitions, unstructured activities, and during instructional learning.

Team Reach Teacher &
Master Team Reach Teacher

MTRTs and TRTs are led by MCLs to plan and deliver instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between in-person instruction and online learning supervised by the Reach Associate. The MTRT/TRT teaches one class while the RA teaches another to bring a blended format focused on personalized and enhanced instruction. MTRT/TRTs are responsible for planning, preparing, and delivering instruction and targeted approaches for all students.