Last summer, I wrote about a series of briefs released by Public Impact, an education policy and management-consulting firm, that detailed some ways schools could potentiallyalter their staffing models to boost teachers' pay without increasing existing school budgets. Now, through a contract with Project L.I.F.T., a public-private school improvement partnership, the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based organization helping to bring some of those staffing models to life in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools.
As part of a pilot program called the Opportunity Culture Initiative, Project L.I.F.T. is creating a variety of new job roles for pre-K-8 teachers at four schools in that district based on the Public Impact model. Those roles include:
