Sentences with phrase «school turnaround attempts»
School turnaround attempts have rarely proven durable, too often connected with the charisma of a particular teacher.
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After decades of academic decline, and on the heels of a failed attempt to transform the school by bringing in better curricula, the turnaround could well be viewed as a last - ditch effort at reinvention.
KIPP's one attempt to turnaround an existing public school, in Denver, was a failure.
When it comes to attempting a turnaround, standalone schools are again at a disadvantage relative to the CMOs.
And when the Obama administration attempted to jump - start stalled interventions under NCLB with redesigned School Improvement Grants, we learned yet again that even a convoluted «rule of nine» can't «make» districts choose the turnaround options that they find most challenging (even if those are the options with the strongest odds of doing well by kids).
Even if most individual turnaround attempts fail, you can achieve a cumulative success rate of 70 or 80 % by retrying rapidly: bringing a new, more capable leader; closing the school and starting fresh with a new operator; or closing the school altogether and dispersing the students to other, better schools.
Implementation support for schools, districts, and charter organizations attempting turnarounds
«What's happening in this school district is really causing us to rethink if the school turnaround process is really helping sustain schools or attempts to change schools in order to change our communities.»
State and District leaders can help more turnaround - attempt schools succeed by selecting the right principals, training them, helping them transition to school models supported by teacher - leadership, tracking leading indicators of performance, and coaching principals to make needed changes fast.
As political interest in education intensified in the past decade, districts repeatedly re-organized and attempted — and then scrapped — school turnaround strategies.
This toolkit attempts to support such coming together by combining a powerful framework for school turnaround with a focus on the human side of change.
The Empowerment Parents Want: A Real, Effective Voice in our Children's Education As corporate efforts to privatize and capitalize on public education are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowerment.»
As corporate efforts to privatize and capitalize on public education are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowerment.»
Sara Neufeld, a contributing writer for The Hechinger Report was awarded a special citation for her collaboration with the NJ Spotlight and WNYC for «A Promise To Renew in Newark,» a series examining a the turnaround attempts of a low - performing school in New Jersey.