Sentences with phrase «individual turnaround schools»

More specifically, looking at the data from state school report cards has taught us to question every dramatic claim that Mr. Duncan makes about individual turnaround schools.

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In the world of schooling, the majority of highly successful turnaround cases seem to be those where an individual educator had not only the right idea about instruction, but also the tenacity to bend or break those rules that would have prevented meaningful changes at the school level.

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.

In general, most turnaround efforts have focused on improving individual schools, with less attention paid to changing the school - system level conditions that contributed to the chronic underperformance in the first place.

Equally astonishing is their decision to put a non-certified individual in charge of Connecticut's school turnaround program.

Individual school turnarounds are hard to do because principals usually don't control budgets (which usually means teachers) or personnel decisions (also teachers)-- those are governed by the central office, by state laws influenced by lobbying by affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and collective bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers regardless of their performance.

It's been three years since Tennessee implemented the Achievement School District (ASD), a statewide district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state control.

When Louisiana and Tennessee wanted to focus on their lowest - performing schools, they created statewide turnaround districts, which pull individual schools under state control.

After years of working in schools beset by turnaround programs that turned a blind eye to our individual experiences and communities, I now work in a school with a high capacity for responding to new demands and improving instruction.