Abstract
With the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in the United States, teachers have been given new responsibilities tied to supporting student scholastic and behavioral needs. The recent implementation of ESSA has left educators with minimal professional development support options to acquire skills to support students under this Act. To meet the diverse professional needs of teachers, it is necessary to look toward new cost-effective methods for professional development that stretch beyond in-person trainings, and that will prepare teachers to support the scholastic and behavioral needs of all learners. The authors propose incorporating the Blue Ocean Shift (BOS) strategy to identify alternative methods for teacher development. BOS comes from the business setting and is a strategy used in market development. The authors apply BOS to education through exposing its applicability as an assessment process. This assessment process can support the identification and development of online teaching tools for supporting multi-tiered systems of supports (MTSS) coaches in their training of teachers for school improvement efforts. The authors analyze the current professional development options provided to teachers and evaluate the use of BOS to determine innovative practices that MTSS coaches can implement to develop teacher skills and promote student learning.
Highlights
Despite increased demand for skill improvement for educators, there are few alternatives to face-to-face professional development to promote teacher growth in the wake of new laws and regulations
Under Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), these schoolwide initiatives, known as multi-tiered systems of supports (MTSS), work to provide robust scholastic and behavioral supports for all learners. These whole school supports offer a three-tiered continuum of interventions for students and can lead to the uniform systematization of school interventions to enhance the outcomes of all learners (ESSA, 2015; Horner et al, 2019; Horner, Sugai, & Fixsen, 2017; Lane, Menzies, Ennis, & Bezdek, 2013; Nagro, Hooks, & Fraser, 2019)
To support teachers and enable them to meet the demands of ESSA, professional development must be offered in a way that will enhance educators’ skills, while remaining cost-effective and accessible
Summary
Despite increased demand for skill improvement for educators, there are few alternatives to face-to-face professional development to promote teacher growth in the wake of new laws and regulations. The authors look towards a new strategy for developing resources for MTSS coaches to support teacher development in the hopes of improving student success within the PreK-12 setting (Nagro, Hooks, & Fraser, 2019). These coaches need efficient and effective resources to support teachers, which subsequently improves schools. The authors examine the current professional development opportunities offered to teachers and evaluate the use of Blue Ocean Shift to distinguish innovative practices that can present MTSS coaches with the tools they need to foster teacher development and student learning
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