Part 1 of this module focuses on the challenge of
leading school turnaround and leader competencies and actions associated with turnaround success.
The TISS initiative builds an innovative new program on the foundation of three existing core NYCLA programs with proven results: our nationally - recognized and externally validated Aspiring Principals Program (APP), which recruits, prepares, and supports talented educators committed to
leading school turnaround efforts; the Leadership Advancement Program (LAP), which prepares aspiring leaders; and our current coaching program for NYC principals, especially those early in their careers.
Successfully
leading a school turnaround is difficult work that requires leaders to have specific underlying competencies and to take strategic, high - leverage actions.
Although these insights are written for people who often
lead school turnaround efforts — principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders — other stakeholders involved in school improvement may also find them instructive.
Leading school turnarounds is difficult work that requires specific competencies.
During my 12 years as president of the United Federation of Teachers, I worked closely with parents and community allies to improve New York City schools through initiatives like the Community Collaborative to Improve District 9 Schools, a community -
led school turnaround program in the south Bronx.
Not exact matches
In Finland, world renowned for its successful public
school system, I talked to
leading school improvement consultant and teacher, Mikko Salonen (of ENIRDELM, the European education network) about his work to help struggling
schools turnaround and become more successful.
Thanks to Lamar Alexander's work over the past week, it shows a willingness to let states take the
lead on key issues like teacher evaluation and
school turnarounds.
When I
led a
turnaround at the Inner City Education Foundation, their portfolio of
schools was academically successful, but financially struggling.
Teacher chats to Annette Rueggeberg, co-principal of a secondary
school in north west Germany that has experienced a remarkable
turnaround in fortunes following an unusual request from a
leading orchestra.
A sweeping and ambitious
turnaround plan for
schools in the newer neighborhoods around Denver International Airport
led to a failed recall effort against the
school board president this spring.
«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...
But evidence suggests that the traditional principal pool is already stretched thin, and many of these leaders who are successful in
schools that are already good wouldn't fare well in the white - knuckled process of
leading a
turnaround.
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School Turnaround Leaders June 11 - 15, 2018» K - 12 educators and change agents directly responsible for
leading or overseeing
school turnaround ef
school turnaround efforts.
Klein immediately offered White a job on his portfolio planning team, which meant
leading the process of closing bad
schools and creating new ones, one of the bull's - eye issues in the massive system's
turnaround efforts.
«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.
School teams composed of principals, assistant principals, and teacher leaders directly responsible for leading K - 12 school turnaround e
School teams composed of principals, assistant principals, and teacher leaders directly responsible for
leading K - 12
school turnaround e
school turnaround efforts
He consults and
leads project teams on a wide range of education policy and
school management issues, with a particular focus on
school turnarounds and charter
school quality and growth.
Donald Fraynd, the sprightly former Jones College Prep principal, has
led the district's
school turnaround effort since its inception.
In 2011, she
led New York State's first successful public charter
school turnaround as executive director of Harlem Prep, which grew from the third percentile citywide to the 96th percentile in just one academic year.
Academic Gains, Double the # of
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School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to
Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter
School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to
Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround
Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture
Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within
School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to
Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to
Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of
School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia
Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every
School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter
Schools — April 15, 2016
School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
He went on to serve in the New York City Department of Education, where he helped open new, high - quality district and charter
schools, support the
turnaround of struggling
schools, and advocate for admission and enrollment changes that
led to thousands more New York City students being better prepared for college and careers.
This analogy was driven home to me as I returned to the urban
turnaround school where I
lead.
Charters have
led the pack, but lately, new innovation or
turnaround schools have contributed significantly to achievement.
Transformational leaders are agents of change directly responsible for
leading, encouraging, empowering and overseeing the
school -
turnaround efforts regardless of their students» circumstances.
Leaders complete the program armed with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively
lead current, new, and
turnaround Democracy Prep
schools to ensure that all of our scholars work hard, go to college, and change the world.
We recently posted about the story of Lowery Elementary, a
turnaround school led by a visionary principal focused on using positive reinforcement to significantly increase...
Positive
School Climate: What It Looks Like and How It Happens: Nurturing Positive School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LS
School Climate: What It Looks Like and How It Happens: Nurturing Positive
School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LS
School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City
Schools to develop an understanding of how principals
led their
school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LS
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How Principals Use Multi-Classroom Leadership in
School Turnarounds: Vignettes profile four
turnaround principals
leading instructional team of teacher - leaders http://opportunityculture.org/How-principals-use-multi-classroom-leadership-in-
school-
turnarounds
To create the
Leading the Change toolkit, CPE customized the Data First process to address
school turnaround specifically.
With just a few weeks before the state budget is due, and key proposals in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda being considered, these parents made it clear that action is desperately needed to
turnaround New York's failing
schools and ensure every classroom is
led by an effective teacher.
Traditional charters, boutique, selective
schools, regardless of their success, are NOT analogous to
leading a
turnaround model.
Teach Plus T3 and C2 http://www.teachplus.org The Teach Plus teacher - designed T3 (
Turnaround Teacher Teams) Initiative recruits, develops, and supports highly effective, experienced teachers to
lead teams in
turnaround efforts in low - performing
schools with which Teach Plus forms partnerships.
Leading Charlotte foundations formed a funding collaborative to support a five - year district
turnaround initiative to dramatically improve educational outcomes for students in the West Charlotte High
School corridor, one of the city's lowest - performing feeder zones.
Scott is also currently
leading research and evaluation of
school -
turnaround projects in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and believes that her knowledge of what's happening at the national level informs these regional projects.
CRPE researchers examine eight SEAs on the
leading edge of the
school turnaround movement: Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Tennessee.
Mr. Field is
leading Public Impact's work to support state education departments as they implement
school turnaround strategies funded by the Race to the Top competition.
As two
schools»
turnaround plans may
lead to the return of «forced placement,» E4E - New York Executive Director Jonathan Schleifer argues that principals need...
Tapped in 2012 to
lead a
turnaround of the failing 652 - student
school, Brengard and an almost completely new staff launched a new project - based learning environment and set about changing from the top down the culture of the
school, which he said was «in a rut» because teaching had become so hyper - focused on standardized testing outcomes.
In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City
Schools to develop an understanding of how principals
led their
school's climate
turnaround and how efforts were received by students and staff.
Carrie Hillyard, who
leads the
turnaround team Evansville Vanderburgh
School Corporation leaders created to assist five struggling district
schools, speaks to State Board of Education members at a public hearing on the future of Glenwood Leadership Academy.
State and District leaders can help more
turnaround - attempt
schools succeed by selecting the right principals, training them, helping them transition to
school models supported by teacher - leadership, tracking
leading indicators of performance, and coaching principals to make needed changes fast.
When faced with the option to set up a «
lead partnership» intervention at an Indianapolis high
school last year, board members declined after district officials hired an outside
school turnaround team.
On the eve of a potentially catastrophic Board of Education vote to
turnaround ten more Chicago
schools, the
school reform research group Designs for Change has released a report showing that
school turnarounds are not worth the extra expense, and that the unheralded reforms brought about under the authority of parent -
led, democratically - elected local
school councils have been far more effective.
Demond Means, a Milwaukee Public
Schools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing school systems, has been tapped to lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Th
Schools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing
school systems, has been tapped to
lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee
turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing
schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Th
schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Thursday.
There is no evidence that scaling charter
schools as
turnaround options will
lead to greater academic success for lower performing students.
«There is no evidence that scaling charter
schools as
turnaround options will
lead to greater academic success for lower performing students,» Vitti wrote to lawmakers on April 17.
Jon Terry, who
leads the Coalition, held a follow - up meeting with Jason Snyder (Director of the OST), in which he advocated that
schools working with the OST be encouraged to report data on
school climate in their
turnaround efforts.
After moving to Tennessee, Solar was dean of instruction at Cameron College Prep, a
turnaround middle
school in Nashville run by
LEAD Public
Schools.
The district needs to rethink the supports it provides these leaders, and needs to ensure it has high quality candidates to
lead the
school across the
turnaround process.