Sentences with phrase «of school turnaround efforts»

Robin Lake offers her key takeaways from CREDO's evaluation of school turnaround efforts in New Orleans, Nashville, and Memphis.

Looking back on the history of school turnaround efforts, the first and most important lesson is the «Law of Incessant Inertia.»

Betsy was the founding principal of STRIVE Prep — Highland (Sunnyside), which was part of a school turnaround effort in North Denver; Highland was the # 1 ranked middle school in Denver Public Schools in 2012.

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Ernest A. Logan, the president of the union that represents NYC's principals and assistant principals, says he and and his members have lost confidence in NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, calling the mayor's school turnaround effort «a political mess» that isn't focused on kids.

But Julie Corbett of Mass Insight Education, a nonprofit that focuses on school - turnaround efforts, says actually turning around a failing school requires comprehensive, sustainable planning and a willingness to look for outside help.

States should maximize the impact of this funding by expanding access to charter schools as part of their turnaround efforts.

As Andy Smarick wrote in these pages a few years ago («The Turnaround Fallacy,» features, Winter 2010), «school turnaround efforts have consistently fallen far short of hopes and expectations.»

Already a teacher at Sanders - Clyde Creative Arts School in Charleston, S.C. — a turnaround school that is a part of the Charleston Promise Neighborhood, an effort modeled after the work of the Harlem Children's Zone — Hobson felt that she could doSchool in Charleston, S.C. — a turnaround school that is a part of the Charleston Promise Neighborhood, an effort modeled after the work of the Harlem Children's Zone — Hobson felt that she could doschool that is a part of the Charleston Promise Neighborhood, an effort modeled after the work of the Harlem Children's Zone — Hobson felt that she could do more.

Mountains of studies had clearly demonstrated over many years that the success rate of school - turnaround efforts was miniscule.

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...

Data released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education on the $ 3.5 billion School Improvement Grant program show that the federal turnaround grants haven't just gone to schools in urban areas, or for less - drastic school improvement efSchool Improvement Grant program show that the federal turnaround grants haven't just gone to schools in urban areas, or for less - drastic school improvement efschool improvement efforts.

Andy Smarick's recent article applies the word «turnaround» to a wide range of efforts to help struggling schools, and while he makes an interesting case, I disagree with his premise that school - turnaround efforts «have consistently fallen far short of hopes and expectations.»

Related efforts, such as New Leaders for New Schools and the University of Virginia's School Turnaround Specialist Program, are underway to help more turnaround leaders succeed.

A Rising Tide Harvard Gazette, 6/12/14 «Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) have studied the first round of academic achievement data to come out of Lawrence since the turnaround effort started.

Instead of mandating a uniform approach to school turnarounds, convert the School Improvement Grants program into a competition and support states that take this effort serischool turnarounds, convert the School Improvement Grants program into a competition and support states that take this effort seriSchool Improvement Grants program into a competition and support states that take this effort seriously.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

All states have been actively engaged in efforts to turnaround failing schools, but the effectiveness of such efforts has varied dramatically across jurisdictions.

«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.

Join the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in learning more about the importance of leadership coaching and leadership academies as part of the larger school turnaround effort.

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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.

After decades of academic decline, and on the heels of a failed attempt to transform the school by bringing in better curricula, the turnaround could well be viewed as a last - ditch effort at reinvention.

Who Should Attend: Principals, assistant principals, department heads, classroom teachers, and coaches, members of school networks, leaders of school improvement and turnaround efforts

Thus, we sought schools where specific practices in the PK — 3 years aligned with and accelerated promising turnaround efforts through the implementation of the SIG models.

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 NeSchool 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 Neschool 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.

Transformational leaders are agents of change directly responsible for leading, encouraging, empowering and overseeing the school - turnaround efforts regardless of their students» circumstances.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 -LSSchool 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 -LSSchool 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 -LSschool's climate turnaround and how efforts -LSB-...]

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.

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 EduSchools 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 Eduschools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Provides high caliber teachers specifically trained to staff urban charters schools and turnaround schools, augmenting the quality of charter school growth and contributing to the success of the critical turnaround efforts taking place within the persistently lowest performing schools, particularly in Greater Boston;

These improvements, known as «wraparound services,» have been successful in other turnaround efforts, notably the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, where families get free access to an array of health and nutrition counseling as well as after - school programs, truancy prevention, literacy programs, financial advice and domestic - crisis resolution.

For instance, Scott conducted a national survey of state leaders that asked how states were implementing new federal school - turnaround principles and what assistance they need to support their efforts.

In a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continue.

Henry said his evaluation of North Carolina's school turnaround efforts (known as TALAS, or Turning Around North Carolina's Lowest - Achieving Schools) finds that most of the 118 low - performing schools that have been targeted saw quick improvements in student proficiency on state exams — 2,156 students were proficient who wouldn't have been otherwise, saidSchools) finds that most of the 118 low - performing schools that have been targeted saw quick improvements in student proficiency on state exams — 2,156 students were proficient who wouldn't have been otherwise, saidschools that have been targeted saw quick improvements in student proficiency on state exams — 2,156 students were proficient who wouldn't have been otherwise, said Henry.

While those AMOs are supposed to «guide support and improvement efforts,» according to the Education Department, they won't determine which schools are turnaround or «focus» schools — the 15 percent of a state's schools that get the most intervention — nor will they drive when schools can get out from under those labels.

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.

Calling North Carolina's school turnaround work «among the most ambitious in the nation,» Vanderbilt University researcher Gary Henry told members of the State Board of Education on Thursday that he's found significant positive effects resulting from the state's federally - funded efforts to boost the performance of some of its lowest performing schools between the 2011 and 2015.

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.

A centerpiece of the administration's plans throughout the state is the creation of seven new «regional achievement centers» that will serve as the hub of turnaround efforts for schools with low student achievement overall or wide gaps in achievement levels.

Following years of various turnaround efforts, the Newark school was closed in 2012 due to a combination of declining enrollment, dilapidated conditions and low academic performance.

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.