Sentences with phrase «of turnaround success»

And Wat was seen as a big part of the turnaround success.

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Still, the success of the company's turnaround hinges on its Canadian bricks - and - mortar stores.

The first comprehensive look at the success of its turnaround plan will likely emerge when it reports quarterly results on Friday.

Chip Bergh, Levi Strauss & Company CEO talks about the success of the company's turnaround strategy.

Douglas Conant led the Campbell's Soup Co. through a widely recognized turnaround; in a Financial Times interview around the time of his retirement in 2011, he credited his success to what he called an «obsession» with employee motivation.

He later said it was «awful tasting medicine, but the patient needed it» to grow up and achieve future success with Pixar, not to mention Apple's remarkable turnaround and string of iconic products.

His turnaround plus the astounding success of MVP - hopeful Mike Trout (league - leading.338 BA, 7 HR, 21 SB) have turned the Angels into one of baseball's hottest teams.

Their turnaround on offense has gotten a lot of the attention and credit for their success this season, but Donald's performance has had a lot to do with it too.

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Mesquite Elementary School, in Tucson, Arizona, attributes much of its turnaround in student performance — and their ongoing success — to their Reteach and Enrich program.

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

Successful turnaround leaders know that change of any kind is hard and that people resist it for many reasons unrelated to success.

These turnarounds are classic: rapid U-turns from the brink of doom to stellar success.

Using a very specific turnaround model, my organization, the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), has had success in transforming some of Chicago's poorest - performing schools.

It exemplifies a successful school turnaround, one of the toughest feats in U.S. education, it exemplifies success in an urban high school attended mainly by poor and minority kids — the other toughest challenge in U.S. education.

The limited success of turnarounds is a common theme in other fields.

This matter is particularly important, given that some point to charter management organizations Green Dot and Mastery as turnaround success stories even though each has a very short turnaround résumé, in both numbers of schools and years of experience.

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.»

One of the underlying themes of those successful turnarounds is enhancement of the publics perception of their success.

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The success or failure of the turnaround has national as well as local implications, since U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made the strategy a centerpiece of federal reform efforts.

That's normal — as in other sectors, where turnarounds and start - ups are successful only 25 - 30 % of the time, we would expect low success rates the first time.

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.

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.

Traditional charters, boutique, selective schools, regardless of their success, are NOT analogous to leading a turnaround model.

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.

But none of the approaches to state - initiated turnaround provide a surefire way to marshal the needed ingredients, and each strategy includes liabilities that, left unaddressed, will compromise the success of the effort.

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;

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District officials tapped some of Springfield's most successful principals to take on these tough turnaround assignments, but also realized that much of the principals» past success stemmed from the strong leadership teams each had built over the years.

How largely African American Oak Park schools near Detroit, Michigan, became a Michigan success story and why Governor John Engler touts them as an example of how a low - achieving school can experience a dramatic turnaround.

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.

All in the absence of any proof charter chains will produce turnaround success.

While not all have been outstanding success, steady progress shows Denver with the potential to break the cycle of turnaround.

Based on the low levels of success in school turnarounds, it is probably better to just shut down the schools and districts and start over.

The term success could not be used because the suggested turnaround charter schools do not have a record of success — at scale — anywhere.

Third, the very few and limited national turnaround charter operators or networks with a track record of success are not interested in «turnaround» work as defined in HB 5105 because their model relies on years of slowly establishing schools one grade level at a time.

«Turnaround» schools (SPI Lowest 5 %, Graduation Rates Lower than 60 %, or Schools currently receiving School Improvement Grants) would be subject to «aggressive turnaround interventions» and inclusion in a «Commissioner's Network»; then could face takeover by the State, and / or State - mandated operation of public schools by universities, the State Education Resource Center (SERC), Regional Education Service Centers (RESC's) non-profit organizations, charter management organizations, CommPACT, or «other providers or partners with a track record of success.»

States would be able to choose one of six intensive interventions for improving performance in these schools, ranging from a strategic staffing strategy that allows principals to staff schools with a turnaround team of their choosing, to a whole - school reform strategy that requires schools to partner with an organization that has a research - based success record.

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 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.

That's why we invest in leadership development, coaching, and school turnaround programs that help our state's public school leaders become stronger educators, and help develop the future of Texas by giving all kids a fair shot at success in school and in life.

If we assume a 30 % success rate of «bad - to - great» turnaround efforts regardless of industry, the cards are stacked heavily against even the most adept and inspired leadership teams.

So let's get this right... Friendship Charter Schools turned down «invitations» to open schools in Pennsylvania, Arkansas and North Carolina because those states didn't have «conditions for reform» that made «it conducive to turnaround success,» and at yet the Malloy administration, out of the blue, wants to give them a school in Connecticut?

The goal of school turnaround strategies are to put schools on a trajectory to long - term success, but current metrics effectively eliminate the viability of early learning as a potential long - term improvement strategy.

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 a superintendent who was intent on improving relations with the teachers union.

Moreover, we appreciate the many ways the regulations highlight priority actions and conditions necessary for school leaders to be most effective — such as elevating the importance of hiring turnaround leaders who are trained for or have a record of success in low - performing schools and providing principals with balanced autonomy to transform underperforming schools.

The blood, sweat and tears that this pack of fed - up Desert Trails moms has put into an immediate turnaround for their slipping children, delving deep into pedagogy research and statistics for success at other schools, is unrivaled by any counter-effort we've observed thus far.

Whether principals work in a turnaround environment, or are seeking to make a good school great, Breakthrough Principals lays out a set of concrete practices that have been proven to work, unveiling the details behind our nation's educational success stories and providing a roadmap for transformative improvement.

North High School adopted restorative practices in 2006 as part of the pilot initiative in Denver Public Schools.Throughout its ten years of implementation, North has moved from a school on turnaround status to the coveted Green School rating, transforming student attendance, student achievement, and other indicators of success.