Example projects: Ms. Losoponkul has worked extensively with the Syracuse City School District to create Opportunity Culture schools and provide professional development
for turnaround school leaders and their leadership teams.
We also supported BPS in the design and delivery of their Aspiring Turnaround School Leaders Institute, a one - year program for aspiring principals and assistant
principals for turnaround schools.
Once among Massachusetts» lowest - achieving public schools, Bentley Elementary has achieved significant gains to become a role
model for turnaround schools.
Steps include: making a commitment to dramatic change, choosing turnarounds for the right schools, developing a pipeline of turnaround leaders, providing leaders extra flexibility, holding schools accountable, prioritizing teacher
hiring for turnaround schools, and proactively engaging the community.
We have partnered with Boston - based nonprofit Teachers21 to launch a Race To The Top - funded initiative to recruit, prepare and support leaders
for turnaround schools statewide.
NYCLA also offers a comprehensive, year - long professional development
program for turnaround school leaders, which incorporates coaching with a five - day summer institute and ongoing professional learning sessions for principals and their leadership teams.
By that early date, Florida had already made more than a dozen changes in promised deadlines, including a multiyear delay in teacher evaluation and a one - year delay in training
principals for turnaround schools.
For turnaround school leaders, NYCLA's coaching focuses on helping them hone their skill in these critical areas that are essential to the development of a positive school climate and culture, which is in turn key to turnaround success.
Reyes - Guerra, D, Pisapia, J & Mick, A 2016, «The preparation of cognitively agile principals
for turnaround schools: a leadership preparation programme study», School leadership and management, vol.36, no. 4.
These step - by - step guides provide selection steps and tools for hiring principals, teachers AND teacher - leaders
for turnaround schools.