Aldine ISD is excited to offer an opportunity for educators and their teams to extend their reach to more students and for more pay, through Opportunity Culture (OC) Texas, a new and innovative staffing framework. This initiative seeks to retain our best teachers by offering them new opportunities to grow as educational leaders, support & grow team members, & better prepare aspiring teachers who will follow them in the classroom.

Why Opportunity Culture?

What barriers keep teachers and students from experiencing great support and strong learning outcomes? This brief video highlights some of the barriers that Opportunity Culture school models can remove.

Are you a teacher who…

• Believes that all students can achieve their full potential, learn at high levels, and graduate prepared to succeed in school, career, and life?
• Imagines schools where you can improve your teaching, year after year?
• Wishes for schools where teachers are valued professionals?
• Dreams of having the opportunity to earn a higher salary?
• Hopes to achieve excellence, help more students, and develop peers while teaching?
• Aspires to be a teacher-leader who is empowered to make decisions in the best interest of your students and take responsibility for student learning?

Then, Opportunity Culture roles are designed for you!

In Opportunity Culture (OC) Texas in Aldine ISD, administrators & their design team determine how to support Multi-Classroom Leadership and other roles to reach more students with teachers who have demonstrated high-growth student learning.

• Multi-classroom leaders lead a teaching team, providing guidance and frequent on-the-job coaching to team members while continuing to teach, often by leading small-group instruction.
• Accountable for the results of all students in the team, multi-classroom leaders also earn supplements averaging 20 percent (and up to 50 percent) of teacher pay, within the regular school budget.
• The schools redesign schedules to provide additional school-day time for teacher planning, coaching, and collaboration.

2021-2022 Cohort A Schools 

• Odom Elementary
• Dunn Elementary
• Eckert Elementary
• Greenspoint Elementary
• Shotwell MS
• Grantham MS
• Davis 9
• MacArthur 9
• Nimitz 9

2021-2022 Cohort B Schools 

• Harris Elementary
• Johnson Elementary
• Jones Elementary
• Reed Academy
• Smith Elementary

As part of the teacher preparation partnership with Aldine, the University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, & and UHD will be participating in the Opportunity Culture initiative. With yearlong residencies, we hope to provide hands-on training, grow, & retain future teacher leaders in Aldine. 

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