Concerns about the state of the teacher workforce are ever-increasing: the proportion of teachers who would recommend teaching continues to fall, as does interest in the profession among current students. Given these stark realities, many school systems are fundamentally redesigning teachers' roles in an attempt to make the job more attractive and sustainable, both to early-career teachers and seasoned veterans. These "strategic school staffing" solutions aim to improve both educator and student outcomes, based on convincing evidence that improved working conditions are critical both for teacher retention and for student success. This brief details early outcomes for educators in one specific strategic school staffing initiative: Next Education Workforce™ (NEW) team-based models. NEW models overhaul the standard "one teacher, one classroom" approach, which requires one teacher to be all things to all of their students. Instead, teachers in NEW models share a roster of students with a team of other educators with complementary skills and expertise. This brief contributes timely early-stage findings on Next Education Workforce team-based models as implemented in Mesa, Arizona. This study identifies several significant differences between teamed and non-teamed teachers in Mesa Public Schools (MPS), suggesting that NEW models are associated with improved educator outcomes.