Sentences with phrase «district turnaround efforts»

This descriptive, mixed methods study uses survey data from turnaround leaders in all 50 states and in - depth interviews with eight intentionally selected state leaders to launch a discussion about how states support district turnaround efforts.

District turnaround efforts are showing some serious promise, and stellar charter schools like Denver School of Science and Technology and UPrep continue to improve student performance.

Lawrence provides a rare case of a leadership approach that resulted in notably impressive academic gains for students without generating the kind of negative response that typically accompanies state takeover and district turnaround efforts.

«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.

I'm highly skeptical of most district turnaround efforts, and I believe that chartering is a better way to increase the educational opportunity of children attending failing schools.

Not exact matches

I was alarmed at how much we were spending on SIG and the awful track record of previous turnaround efforts, and I was sure that districts would pick weak interventions and that kids were going to continue languishing in these schools while we went about this misguided adventure.

«Lawrence is a rare example of a district - wide turnaround effort that has led to some positive results,» says Beth Schueler, a Harvard Graduate School of Education...

Whether countervailing forces — federal pressure, political pressure from organized parent groups, or conscientious officials committed to the law's goals — are strong enough to force states and districts to implement meaningful turnaround efforts remains to be seen, but the evidence so far is not encouraging.

Among many influential projects conducted under the auspices of EdLabs, Fryer has developed and implemented programs to test the impact of incentives on student achievement, teacher pay - for - performance concepts, and an effort to apply charter - school practices to a district turnaround school in Houston.

Much of the gap can be filled, however, by allowing states to allocate more of their federal dollars to supporting turnaround efforts in low - performing districts.

The striking turnaround resulted from a remarkable bottom - up effort that eventually brought together the school district, the city government, and more than sixty arts and cultural organizations in a group called Dallas ArtsPartners.

«Lawrence is a rare example of a district - wide turnaround effort that has led to some positive results,» says Beth Schueler, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student who has analyzed the Lawrence takeover in detail.

Donald Fraynd, the sprightly former Jones College Prep principal, has led the district's school turnaround effort since its inception.

IZZI HERNANDEZ - CRUZ is an associate consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative analyses of school and district performance metrics to support strong accountability and turnaround evaluation efforts in both traditional and charter schools.

We need to STRENGTHEN School Governance Council Language (public act 10 - 111) We also have to continually hammer / promote the message of a «TEAMWORK» collaborated effort between the local district boards of education, turnaround committees and the SGC (school governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners Network.

After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst - performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no verdict on its effectiveness.

Many of those schools have been failing for a decade or longer despite numerous turnaround efforts, largely because they have been overseen by districts that are themselves failing.

Week after week, month after month, the outside consultants disrupt the efforts to «turnaround» districts by demanding more and more «data» for some new software program they've purchased.

While the district has improved some of the turnaround efforts with the addition of a Year Zero planning process for some of the lowest - performing schools, the record of improving existing schools is mixed.

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

The Network provides site - based coaches and regional coordinators — recruited, trained, and placed by Education Northwest — to help schools and districts identify evidence - based practices that can support their turnaround efforts.

We plan to introduce a tiered monitoring system that will focus efforts on the lowest performing schools and districts, with an emphasis on both compliance and outcomes and with the turnaround practices as a unifying framework.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

He works on district - level SLO initiatives in California, Nevada, Ohio, and Texas and helps guide school turnaround efforts in Nebraska, Massachusetts, and Virginia.

Previously, he served in hybrid teacher leadership roles developing and operationalizing successful school turnaround, design initiatives, and change - management efforts within the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Overview: In 2012, Match Education was contracted by Lawrence Public Schools to provide its tutoring services for two years to all students in grade 9 and 10 in two of its lowest performing high schools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of Education.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places...

District as it grows its efforts to turnaround the lowest performing schools in the state.

With lawmakers duking it out over whether or not to eliminate a large number of teacher aides in elementary classrooms, it's hard to imagine that the state and local school districts will be able to keep school turnaround efforts going into the future.

On December 19th, the school board will hear updates on the district's turnaround efforts.

As part of President Barack Obama's efforts to implement school reform, «turnaround» is one of four approaches that school districts can take to improve an underperforming school participating in the School Improvement Grant program.

One such bill is SB 1552 by Altamonte Springs Republican David Simmons which would encourage school turnaround efforts in which districts extend their school days by at least an hour, provide students with wraparound services, or give charter - like autonomy to their principals.

While some of the logistics for school turnaround efforts will be changing in various ways under ESSA, many of the details, insights, and strategies provided by SEAs through these surveys and interviews are still relevant to helping SEAs think about how to provide high - quality support to districts on school turnaround.

In line with the Center on School Turnaround's charge to support states» efforts, we sought to highlight districts engaged in focused turnaround efforts where their respective boards played a key role in catalyzing, shaping, and supporting targeted improvement efforts.

The Texas Organizing Project was heavily involved in the turnaround effort, mobilizing parents and pushing DISD to make Dade the first of 20 community schools in the district.

As the week opens, Georgia Legislators prepare travel to Louisiana to observe school turnaround efforts, and many weigh in on the Opportunity School District Plan.

The CST leadership and evaluators wanted to know more about how SEAs were currently supporting districts in improving their capacity to assist with school turnaround efforts and how that support could be improved.

«The Montezuma - Cortez RE-1 school board is leading a district engaged in whole system improvement efforts as well as targeted turnaround with several elementary schools.

This descriptive, mixed - methods analysis uses survey data from state - level turnaround leaders in all 50 states and interviews with eight intentionally selected state leaders to launch a discussion about how states support districts in school - turnaround efforts.

The portfolio structure is being used as part of a multifaceted school turnaround effort in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city long known as having one of the lowest - performing districts in the nation.

Our goal in developing these case studies was to present information - rich cases that can inform state and district efforts to optimize the board's role in school turnaround.

The turnaround effort — dubbed Apollo 20 — is unique in that it's adopting many principles seen in successful charter schools and applying them to this urban district of over 200,000 students.

A four - year study of turnaround efforts in Sanger Unified School District — named by the state of California as one of its 98 lowest - performing districts in 2004 — stands out as a proof point of effective methods.

The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee reports on the ASD model, including the viability of charter schools within a community - based enrollment system, developing a sustainable teacher and leader pipeline, and collaboration with the Shelby County district - run turnaround effort, calleDistrict: Lessons from Tennessee reports on the ASD model, including the viability of charter schools within a community - based enrollment system, developing a sustainable teacher and leader pipeline, and collaboration with the Shelby County district - run turnaround effort, calledistrict - run turnaround effort, called iZone.

Ms. Williams was placed with the University of Virginia's Darden - Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education in Charlottesville, Va., where she works with school districts around the country to support their school turnaround efforts.

Contrast Grim's statements with the frustrations of the Indianapolis Public Schools leaders, who moved to authorize a lawsuit against the state over its intervention plans Thursday: While the district wants to fight the outright takeover of four other district schools, the much - less - intrusive intervention at Washington means staff can more easily get on board with state - led turnaround efforts.

We specialize in supporting school turnaround efforts at both the district and school levels and can help clients implement school portfolio strategy based on practical experience.

District and school leaders should implement turnaround strategies based on evidence from rigorous studies of turnaround efforts in North Carolina and other states, or well - conceived, innovative strategies with sound theoretical foundations.

The ASD has collaborated with high - performing charter operators to conduct school turnarounds in neighborhood schools; collaborated with philanthropic leaders to build a sustainable educator talent pipeline for the bottom 5 percent of the state's schools; engaged neighborhood communities in the process of matching charter operators to schools selected into the ASD; and influenced district - led turnaround efforts.

After several unsuccessful turnaround efforts and years of chronic low performance at Cameron Middle School, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) decided to try something different to dramatically improve student outcomes: gradually convert operation of the school from the district to a charter management organization.