Sentences with phrase «as turnaround school»

Only one year after being designated as a turnaround school, the Grew exceeded its state growth targets for all students, as well as for black and Hispanic / Latino subgroups.

Through their own practical experiences as turnaround school administrators and using research - based methods found in the No - Nonsense Nurturer approach, our associates have the tools to help you assess current levels of performance and design a comprehensive plan to lead your school toward growth and high levels of achievement.

EdisonLearning, which IDOE intends to appoint as a turnaround school operator in Gary, is a New York - based private education firm.

In 2010, we chartered John Dibert Community School (now Phillis Wheatley Community School) as a turnaround school, to improve academic performance.

As a turnaround school, Leto has a student population of 2,287, with 84 percent economically disadvantaged students, 30 percent English - language learners, and a long history of ranking near last place in state test scores.

Not exact matches

She cites Superintendent Beverly Hall's turnaround program in Atlanta as positive because Hall «established accountability targets for every school, including the percentage of students who meet standards and the percentage who exceed them.»

It was as if everything the school had worked for — a three - year turnaround through a federal grant, a revamping of the facilities and extracurricular activities — was erased by a protest that happened to take place directly across from the school's entrance.

The education department, abiding by legislation passed in 2015, identified 144 schools (which became 145 after one split) as «struggling» or «persistently struggling» — 124 were listed as struggling, which had two years to turnaround, and 21 schools were identified as persistently struggling, which have one year to improve or face being taken over by an independent receiver chosen by local leaders but approved by the state.

Speaking about the federal models for schools identified as Persistently Lowest Achieving, Mulgrew said that the union could not come to an agreement with the DOE on the transformation or turnaround models because the UFT wanted a teacher to be able to discuss an informal observation write - up with an administrator, but the DOE refused to require that.

This year's state exams, which third through eighth graders will begin taking this week, immediately follow a bitter battle between Cuomo and teachers» unions over evaluations as well as tenure, merit pay and turnaround strategies for chronically underperforming schools.

As Buffalo Public school parents kicked off a campaign Monday to demand transferring their children out of failing city schools, one school continues working on its turnaround plan.

Nine out of 10 schools deemed to be struggling are not being taken over by the state as they have another year to implement turnaround strategies.

She is also working on a book about school turnaround driven by her personal experiences through her brother, Maurice, who was functionally illiterate as a result of failures in the public school system and died at a young age.

By using more than three decades of experience as an entrepreneur and turnaround executive, Dr. Joseph Picken of the Naveen Jindal School of Management lays out a road map for the founding entrepreneur who seeks to retain the CEO position as a company gains market traction and begins a period of rapid growth.

School - turnaround experts say a few small things, such as aligning curriculum with state standards and creating focused time for reading and math, can yield short - term results.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

States should maximize the impact of this funding by expanding access to charter schools as part of their turnaround efforts.

As Andy Smarick wrote in these pages a few years ago («The Turnaround Fallacy,» features, Winter 2010), «school turnaround efforts have consistently fallen far short of hopes and expectations.»

The Museum School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teaSchool is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teaschool in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teachers.

But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs.

«We are equally proud that this partnership has helped us on our journey of improvement, which has seen both schools being removed from special measures and rated «good» by Ofsted — an incredible turnaround in such as short space of time.»

Let's suppose that parent advocates run this gauntlet and manage to force a turnaround at a given school, as appears to be happening at Desert Trails.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

It may well be that the schools that Governor Warner wants to help most will solve their dysfunction only with significant and simultaneous infusions of new staff as well as the kinds of turnaround principals that Warner so aptly observes are needed.

As co-author Julie Kowal and I detail in our just - released paper Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds (sponsored by the University of Virginia's Partnership for Leaders in Education), imports are most likely essential to meet our nation's need.

Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently, taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

The Obama administration has used its Race to the Top program and unprecedented, far - reaching conditions for states seeking «waivers» from the No Child Left Behind Act's most destructive requirements as excuses to micromanage what states are doing on teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, and much else.

The right school leader is essential for successful turnarounds, as Public Impact's prior work indicates.

At the same time, they're wrong to imagine that changing policies regarding teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, or school choice will deliver as hoped, absent efforts to help school officials to think differently and then provide the support they need to tackle rules, regulations, and contracts in new ways.

The consequence of education's failure to recognize turnarounds as a means of school improvement is twofold: in education, turnarounds have been tried rarely and studied even less.

The resultant turnaround in results was so swift and marked that a report from independent think - tank The Grattan Institute, named it as one of four schools in Australia that proved rapid transformation was possible.

Related efforts, such as New Leaders for New Schools and the University of Virginia's School Turnaround Specialist Program, are underway to help more turnaround leaders succeed.

As part of that plan, Duncan pushed to expand the city's roster of charter schools — it now stands at 67 — and embraced the turnaround concept, in which a school is temporarily shut down, staff members fired, transferred, or asked to reapply, and a new staff built from the ground up.

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

In what's being pitched as a national model, state officials last week picked the University of Virginia to run a training program that will let an experienced school leader earn a credential as a «turnaround specialist.»

Incremental improvement strategies are not the same as whole - school turnaround.

Today she works as department math chair at John Dibert Community School — a turnaround charter belonging to the FirstLine Schools network — in New Orleans, where she says her education, particularly her participation in a pilot program called Instructional Leadership (IL) at HGSE has significantly influenced and shaped her daily duties.

That's how he frames his role as superintendent of the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, New York, delegating much of the day - to - day work of running a high - poverty turnaround district of 6,800 students to look ahead and concentrate on the big picture.

This matter is particularly important, given that some point to charter management organizations Green Dot and Mastery as turnaround success stories even though each has a very short turnaround résumé, in both numbers of schools and years of experience.

Though alarming, the poor record for school turnarounds in recent years should come as no surprise.

As the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has noted, studies «that look back at factors that may have contributed to [a] school's success» are «particularly weak in determining causal validity for several reasons, including the fact that there is no way to be confident that the features common to successful turnaround schools are not also common to schools that fail.»

As part of the state's Race to the Top grant, Tennessee implemented a number of school turnarounds, all of which involved a change in school leadership and a substantial turnover of teachers.

«We look forward to working with PIER Fellows to analyze the implementation and impact of statewide initiatives such as our curriculum frameworks, educator evaluation framework, and school and district turnaround efforts.

A transformation took place when the school adopted arts integration as the turnaround tool for the school.

Join the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in learning more about the importance of leadership coaching and leadership academies as part of the larger school turnaround effort.

«As a result of the turnaround plan, each school gets to run itself,» says Ms. Constantino, who has worked at Leahy for 36 years.

A school as described in subparagraph (9)(iii) of this subdivision that is placed under registration review in the 2010 - 2011 school year or thereafter, shall implement a plan, in a format and timeline as approved by the commissioner, that shall, at a minimum, meet the requirements of a restructuring plan pursuant to subclause (6)(iv)(c)(2) of this subdivision and include at least one of the actions of a transformation or turnaround model.

implement such strategies as financial incentives, increased opportunities for promotion and career growth, and more flexible work conditions that shall be designed to recruit, place, and retain staff with the skills necessary to meet the needs of students in the turnaround school;

The numbers of young people graduating has shot up thanks to a host of «equity» focused reforms, such as re-engagement programs, the turnaround of chronically struggling districts, and strong regulation of traditional public and charter schools, wrought under a landmark Massachusetts Education Act.

CPS cited Marshall «A turnaround school that has revitalized its curriculum, culture, and climate, and is showing clear gains as a result.