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RESEARCH
Study finds benefits of team teaching
By Elizabeth Foster
Categories: Career pathways, Collaboration, Learning communitiesAugust 2025
Amid many challenges in the education field, it is heartening to see the positive results of a recent study about a new way to structure teacher teams and responsibilities. The study of team-based staffing found that educator collaboration and perceived authority leads to teachers being less likely to leave the teaching profession. THE STUDY Team-based staffing, teacher authority, and teacher turnover. tinyurl.com/2739w6hh The Next Education Workforce (NEW) initiative, a team-based model of organizing teaching staff, was designed at Arizona State University in 2018 and implemented initially with two Arizona school districts. The model has since spread to more than 150 schools in several states. It leverages collaborative teams of educators that depart from the traditional egg crate model in which a single teacher can be
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Elizabeth Foster is the senior vice president of research and strategy at Learning Forward. She leads the organization’s research efforts for partnerships, programs, and fundraising. Elizabeth co-wrote the Standards for Professional Learning (2022) with Tracy Crow and now facilitates learning sessions about the standards and develops resources that support their use and implementation.
Categories: Career pathways, Collaboration, Learning communities
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