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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.»

The school has added time to the school day (a requirement for all turnaround and transformation schools), including 70 additional minutes for teachers, which allows more time for prep, meetings, and teaching.

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.

Features in the summer 2013 issue include a celebration of Dean Kathleen McCartney's tenure at the Ed School; a discussion on turnaround schools and what many of our alumni are doing to ensure that the progress of their schools continues; and a look at a special school in Maine founded by Edith Aronson, Ed.M.&School; a discussion on turnaround schools and what many of our alumni are doing to ensure that the progress of their schools continues; and a look at a special school in Maine founded by Edith Aronson, Ed.M.&school in Maine founded by Edith Aronson, Ed.M.»

The interviewees are a who's who of edu - authors, and have so far included Daniel Willingham, Richard Whitmire on his Michelle Rhee Bee Eater volume, Rick Kahlenberg on his Al Shanker biography, John Merrow, and Alexander Russo on his colorful look at Green Dot's Locke High School turnaround.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

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.

Case studies of single turnarounds comprise most of this research, including studies of both large, stand - alone entities and small units within larger organizations, closer in size to schools.

Their earlier work on this topic includes School Turnarounds: A Review of Cross-Sector Evidence on Dramatic Organizational Improvement (Center on Innovation and Improvement, 2007), and Julie Kowal and Emily Ayscue Hassel, Turnarounds with New Leaders and Staff (Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005).

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.»

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.

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.

While most school closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closchool closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including cloSchool Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closchool districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closures.

Other leadership actions that nurture school turnarounds include (1) sending a clear signal that dramatic change is urgently needed, (2) maintaining a consistent focus on improving instruction, (3) making visible improvements quickly, and (4) building a staff that is committed to the school's improvement goals.

She currently directs a multi-year evaluation of a comprehensive school turnaround strategy in the Atlanta Public Schools that includes implementation and impact analyses.

Her work addresses a wide range of education issues, including school finance, turnarounds, and charter schools quality and growth.

His portfolio of work included state standards and assessments, school accountability, school turnaround, educator quality, college & career readiness, early childhood / early literacy, and charter schools.

The papers that were presented examined an array of issues, including lessons learned on accountability, standards, school turnarounds, teacher quality, research, state capacity, and more.

The authors examined the student achievement data of each school included in the turnaround initiatives — and in LPS, each traditional public school in the district — to select schools that have made notable academic gains since implementing these practices.

In addition, it facilitates activities including training, discussions and Q&A sessions with experts on school turnaround implementation.

Projects have included: teacher career pathway programs that diversified roles in the teaching force; teacher career pathways that recognize, develop, and reward excellent teachers as they advance through various career stages; incentives for effective teachers who take on instructional leadership roles within their schools; incentives that attract, support, reward, and retain the most effective teachers and administrators at high - need schools; rigorous, ongoing leadership development training for teacher leaders and principals, leadership roles for teachers aimed at school turnaround; and the creation of new salary structures based on effectiveness.

Additional turnaround resources include «Back from the Brink: Lawrence, MA,» an ERS case study of Lawrence Public Schools, and «Turning Around the Nation's Lowest Performing Schools,» a CAP and ERS publication that recommends five steps for districts to improve their chances of success.

To address specific challenges a school might be experiencing with implementation, we provide targeted assistance, including professional development, funding (particularly SIG grants), consultation, access to turnaround partners, and other supports, all aligned to the turnaround practices.

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.

Too often, opponents of turnaround schools (a system of accelerating growth of student achievement partly by changing the adults who serve the students and removing restrictions that impede student success - including any collective bargaining agreements that don't put students» interest in the forefront) remain steadfastly wed to the failing status quo that undermines families» efforts to improve their circumstances through education.

Our work includes supporting turnaround schools, including Opportunity Culture schools, which have achieved far more high growth and less low growth than comparable schools.

Prior to her consultant work, Avni served as an assistant principal in the DC Public Schools, including a turnaround preK - eighth grade school.

The series includes a guide to help district and state leaders choose the best restructuring option for each school, updated in a 2nd edition released in 2009, and white papers identifying what we know from research about when the first four restructuring options under NCLB work: reopening as a charter school, contracting with external providers, turnarounds with new leaders and staff, and state takeovers.

The CST offers a variety of technical assistance services to state education agencies and local education agencies, including direct and targeted support in any or all of the four domains for rapid school improvement: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.

Florida's school grading system has become so complex and has frustrated so many, Governor Rick Scott signed last year a one year reprieve from the grades» consequences, which typically include the requirement that if a school receives an F for two years in a row, the school must implement a turnaround strategy or a plan to convert to a charter school.

As a district, we have implemented strategies for school turnaround rooted in collective impact including:

The contract also includes separate agreements for the lowest performing schools, so - called «turnaround schools,» to have a number of their own innovations, including a longer school day for extra stipends of as much as $ 3,000 per staff.

The funds are conditioned on the agreement that districts agree to undertake one of one of four aggressive turnaround models for the target schools that include replacing most of the staff or reopening as a charter.

The good news is that there are examples of successful turnaround efforts, where key ingredients include great leaders and school systems ready to respond with best practices at the center of their work.

Maryland's plan includes a strong focus on personalized professional learning for new and veteran teachers as well as a strong school system - focused approach to supporting all low performing and high poverty schools, with specific emphasis on turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shifts.

As we wrote at the time, most stakeholders in Marion High School's turnaround say duplicating the success of the state's intervention would require replicating an extraordinary confluence of circumstances — including the arrival of Edwards, who was intent on improving relations with the teachers union.

The contract also includes provisions for additional pay of up to $ 1,500 for hard - to - fill positions or for teachers working in designated «turnaround schools» that are the district's lowest performing.

Outside California, only four laws — in Louisiana, Texas, Michigan and a pilot process in Columbus, Ohio — have met Parent Revolution's minimum standards, which include requiring the petition support of a simple majority of parents, serving the same students once the school gets transformed and offering at least one turnaround option that would bring on entirely new management.

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.

In this article, the authors (including the school's turnaround principal) document seven practices that changed the school's culture into one built on relational trust.

As a school turnaround specialist, Mr. Ankrum has consistently helped schools to make sizable gains in hopes of bridging the achievement gap for students in the hardest to move subgroups, which include but are not limited to Black and Latino students.

The draft contains a number of elements we can support, including the removal of one - size - fits - all accountability, the elimination of the «school turnaround» models, the addition of extended - year graduation rates, and the maintained requirement for data disaggregation.

These events have included a teachers - only panel in school turnaround and dinners with national education leaders.

Subject areas are relevant to the differentiated accountability school improvement model, including the use of data to drive instruction, the implementation of school and district monitoring systems, and the use of a district turnaround office.

The report's authors ask for six very significant steps including asking the U.S. Department of Education to replace its four required punitive school turnaround models (that feature firing teachers, closing schools and privatizing schools) with a «Sustainable School Success» model that would support and improve struggling scschool turnaround models (that feature firing teachers, closing schools and privatizing schools) with a «Sustainable School Success» model that would support and improve struggling scSchool Success» model that would support and improve struggling schools.

Lowering class size is one of only four strategies proven by the federal education department's research arm to improve student achievement, a list that does NOT include school closings, wholesale staff firings, turnarounds, or conversion to charter schools.

A successful school turnaround requires a systems approach with coherent guidance and support from the state and district to complement the actions of the school; and A successful school turnaround is more than the initial jolt of bold changes in structure, authority, and personnel; it includes phases in which effective practices and processes are routinized and sustained.

ADI's work focuses on district and school improvement, including school turnaround; state recognition systems, accountability, and support; family and community engagement; and change leadership and innovation.

$ 20 million on the 10 turnarounds, including the 6 contracted to Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL), announced earlier in the week.

Our support takes a number of forms — including direct targeted assistance, grant opportunities, and identification of priority partners for school and district turnaround — all focused on building district capacity to support schools to implement the Turnaround Practices.