Carlsbad Municipal School District

Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL)

• The Multi-Classroom Leader teaches for part of the day, and leads a small team of teachers, paraprofessionals, and teacher residents in the same grade or subject. The MCL co-plans, leads teacher data analysis, co-teaches, models, coaches, and gives feedback. The MCL shares accountability for all student data with the team teachers they support.

Master Team Reach Teacher (MTRT)

• An MTRT serves on an MCL's team, directly teaching more students than usual, but typically without raising instructional group sizes. MTRTs also help the MCL lead a larger team (e.g., by coaching part of the team) and/or reach significantly more students than other teachers. With guidance from the team’s MCL, MTRTs plan and deliver instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between face-to-face learning with the teacher and digital or offline learning supervised by an advanced paraprofessional known as a reach associate or a teacher resident.

Team Reach Teacher (TRT)

• The TRT directly teaches more students than usual, but typically without raising instructional group sizes. With guidance from the team’s MCL, the TRT plans and delivers instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between face-to-face learning with the teacher and digital or offline learning supervised by an advanced paraprofessional known as a reach associate or a teacher resident. While one class of students is with a reach associate, the TRT teaches another class of students, focusing on delivering personalized and enriched instruction.

Reach Associate (RA)

• The RA, an advanced classroom aide position, provides both instructional and non-instructional support to a team of teachers, as designated by the team’s MCL, with a focus on providing small-group tutoring and supervising students on projects, skills practice and digital learning during classroom rotations. The RA also works closely with the teacher to complete various administrative tasks and non-instructional paperwork and manages procedures and supervises student behavior during transitions, lunch, recess, assemblies, and other unstructured activities, and while teacher(s) deliver instruction. All activities are directed by the multi-classroom leader or team reach teachers.

How will Opportunity Culture positions and stipends be funded?

• Each school is developing its own unique campus design and then evaluating its campus budget (and staffing) to fund the pay supplements for these positions. The district is not giving the schools any additional dollars for Opportunity Culture roles, meaning the design is sustainable for the long-term because it is fully funded at the campus level.

Are Opportunity Culture positions open only to the teachers at Opportunity Culture campuses?

• No. Any teacher at any school can apply for one of these positions at any other school, as can teachers from outside of Carlsbad. District administrators will create the criteria and conduct behavioral event interviews of candidates for the O.C. positions. Principals will do the hiring from the pool of approved candidates.

What does a typical day look like?

• A typical day for an MCL could be teaching their students in the morning. Then working with their team colleagues, on their campus, in the afternoon, by co-teaching, modeling, observing and providing feedback, or meeting with the team to plan or analyze student data, as well as regular meetings with the school's instructional team of leaders. The MCL gets significantly higher compensation for taking on that additional responsibility of co-teaching, coaching, etc. MCLs are responsible for coaching and support, not evaluations of their team members.

Will the MCLs receive training?

• Yes, MCL training will begin this summer and be ongoing to help prepare for the responsibilities of leading a team. The proven success of O.C. comes from the results seen when teachers are part of a team and given daily support.

How would a team be formed?

• Each Opportunity Culture school has its own design team charged with creating an effective design to meet their needs. We have seen teams formed by subject, or grade level or multiple grade levels. It can also be outside of core subject areas. Those are decisions made by the campus team.

Will an Opportunity Culture school still have an Instructional Coach?

• That decision will depend on the campus's individual O.C. design with support from central administration. We are looking for ways to get more coaches for our teachers, not fewer. Additionally, these are different roles. An instructional coach is assigned to assist the teachers at a particular school; an MCL is a teacher who chooses to lead a team while continuing to teach part of the day and take on the extra responsibilities that go with it.