Sentences with phrase «other turnaround schools»

08, a consultant with the Office of District and School Turnaround under the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, has been seeing in other turnaround schools.

Not exact matches

Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown is in Albany today along with staff members trying to finalize the turnaround applications for East and Lafayette and two other sSchools Superintendent Pamela Brown is in Albany today along with staff members trying to finalize the turnaround applications for East and Lafayette and two other schoolsschools.

I've obviously made up my mind about School Improvement Grants (SIG) and other school turnaround efSchool Improvement Grants (SIG) and other school turnaround efschool turnaround efforts.

While one is called the «turnaround model» and the other is called the «transformation model,» they amount to the same thing: using the same types of interventions applied over the last number of decades to try to improve struggling schools — replacing some staff, improving professional development, changing the curriculum, etc..

Charter and replacement schools have fared better than other turnaround strategies.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

Among other things, he's brought in Monica Higgins, an associate professor at the Ed School, to organize a series of 90 - minute roundtables every three to four weeks in which outside policy experts and practitioners meet with Duncan and his top deputies for an open discussion on a particular topic — teacher performance, turnaround in 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.

Chicago Public Schools and the federal government have invested millions in Marshall and four other turnaround high schools: Fenger, Orr, Phillips, and Schools and the federal government have invested millions in Marshall and four other turnaround high schools: Fenger, Orr, Phillips, and schools: Fenger, Orr, Phillips, and Harper.

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.

• Denver Public Schools, by comparison, spent 13 percent of its turnaround grant money so far on consulting and other help from private companies.

In Colorado, as in many other states, the state education department held a consultant fair, where it was apparent «there were vendors coming out of the woodwork» without experience in school turnaround but who knew «there was a lot of money to be made,» said Patrick Chapman, director of federal programs for the state education department.

And turnaround schools, both in Chicago and in other urban districts like Philadelphia, are experiencing significant enrollment loss — driven largely by the rapid expansion of charter high schools — that in some ways hinders improvement.

The failure of the federal School Improvement Grant program and countless other «turnaround» initiatives is convincing policymakers that nondistrict alternatives are essential.

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.

With behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school district.

The administration's models for school turnarounds have been criticized because they often require the replacement of the principal and other school staff members, and questions have been raised about whether the approach is based in research.

In addition to initiating turnarounds in these schools, the Commissioner's Network is designed to serve as a vehicle for innovative initiatives, a platform for sharing effective practices, and a model for other schools and districts throughout the state.

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.

Instead of choosing among four contentious turnaround models (turnaround, restart, school closure, and transformation), schools have two new additional options: One option allows state agencies to establish any whole school improvement strategy for use by local education agencies with approval from the U.S. Secretary of Education, and the other option permits schools to partner with outside organizations who have successful records in school turnarounds.

In other words, New Jersey did not use the «turnaround» methods of reform favored by today's school reformers.

In this report, written by Julie Kowal, Jacob L. Rosch, Emily Ayscue Hassel, and Bryan C. Hassel, for the Center on Innovation and Improvement, we examine the research base on performance - based dismissals in other sectors to offer strategies for leaders in turnaround schools.

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.

Staff members from states in the Southeast Region met with their counterparts in the area of school turnaround and learned from experts in the field from the U.S. Department of Education and other organizations.

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Workschools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What WorkSchools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Workschools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What WorkSchools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

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.

And for charter school operators and other school turnaround players, it means putting parents at the head of education decisionmaking and governance.

The three companies started last school year flush with cash, but flagging enrollment has already lowered the amount of money EdPower and other turnaround operators have to run the state takeover schools.

But those turnaround schools and others flagged for state intervention remain on her plate now, regardless of her feelings towards takeover.

Labor leaders, community activists, and others will also present an oral history of CPS school closings, consolidations and turnarounds and illustrate its impact on impoverished communities and conduct workshops on how to save troubled schools.

Numerous provisions contained in S. 1177 represent a huge step forward from current legislation: the elimination of adequate yearly progress and the 100 percent proficiency requirements, tempering the test - and - punish provisions of No Child Left Behind; the continued requirement of disaggregated subgroup data; removal of the unworkable school turnaround models required under the School Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool turnaround models required under the School Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeSchool Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeSchool Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effective.

TURNAROUND MODEL: Replace the principal, screen existing school staff, and rehire no more than half the teachers; adopt a new governance structure; and improve the school through curriculum reform, professional development, extending learning time, and other strategies.

«School closings, consolidations, turnarounds and other similar experiments do not work and do little to improve student achievement,» said Lewis.

Engagement should inform the district's strategic plan, school turnaround plans, transportation, before and after - school programming, and other community concerns.

And yet, last month, Chicago Schools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard announced 18 more closures, turnarounds and other interventions, and, this week, a plan to open 12 new charter schools, giving contracts to charter networks that already run some of the system's worst sSchools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard announced 18 more closures, turnarounds and other interventions, and, this week, a plan to open 12 new charter schools, giving contracts to charter networks that already run some of the system's worst sschools, giving contracts to charter networks that already run some of the system's worst schoolsschools.

«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.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.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.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.»

As part of the U.S. Department of Education's third annual back - to - school bus tour, on Thursday, Sept. 20, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and other senior Department officials will visit schools in Charleston and McDowell County, W.Va., where they will meet with educators and stakeholders for discussions on early learning, school turnaround efforts, and community - building partnerships.

The steps taken in Shanghai to successfully turn around schools will be clearly recognizable to anyone familiar with the school - turnaround process in the United States and other countries.

Ofsted has dropped a commitment to send letters to headteachers doing an «exceptional turnaround job» at other schools after just one year and only five letters sent.

Since then, he's further made his mark on the legislation through successful amendments that would allow states to develop their own turnaround models for the lowest - performing schools and permit students in each state's bottom 5 percent of schools to transfer to other schools.

The board is excited to be participating in the Center on School Turnaround Board Training and to have access to case studies and exemplars from other successful turnaround districts and boards.»

In 2011, SEDL and the other partners (ICF, AIR, Education Northwest, and McREL) assisted with Communities of Practice addressing stakeholder engagement, school turnaround, and teacher and leader effectiveness.

The State Policy Brief Series highlights state policies, regulations, practices, laws, or other tools intended to create the necessary conditions for school and / or district turnaround.

Still, word of the dramatic turnaround has spread: principals and administrators from other failing high schools as far away as Chicago have been touring New Dorp.

Legislators are currently considering four other CTU - supported bills that directly impact conditions in public schools: HB 5481, requiring school districts to report class size data to ISBE and sets targets for K - 12 class sizes beginning in 2020; HB5721, which mandates improved public input and transparency in CPS capital spending and provides supports for schools and students hit with school actions like closings and turnarounds; HB 3786, which requires fully empowered local school councils in publicly funded schools, including charters, that must vote by a super-majority to approve school closures and reorganizations; and HB 4800, which would move surplus TIF funds to public education needs.

And $ 25 million over the next two years to «transform» 25 district schools by setting up a «Commissioner's Network where low performing schools would voluntarily participate and allow the state to take over their schools or help them partner with universities or other regional education centers to implement turnaround interventions.»

These results were mostly found in schools that implemented the SIG turnaround model, which, among other things, compels more dramatic staff turnover.

Contrast Grim's statements with the frustrations of the Indianapolis Public Schools leaders, who moved to authorize a lawsuit against the state over its intervention plans Thursday: While the district wants to fight the outright takeover of four other district schools, the much - less - intrusive intervention at Washington means staff can more easily get on board with state - led turnaround eSchools leaders, who moved to authorize a lawsuit against the state over its intervention plans Thursday: While the district wants to fight the outright takeover of four other district schools, the much - less - intrusive intervention at Washington means staff can more easily get on board with state - led turnaround eschools, the much - less - intrusive intervention at Washington means staff can more easily get on board with state - led turnaround efforts.

Restarts represent a more dramatic intervention compared with internal school turnaround initiatives, and a preferable alternative to closing schools when students do not have access to other quality options.

In November 2013, without informing Stamford, charter school chain founder and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor directed former charter school principal and State Department of Education «turnaround» director Morgan Barth to solicit charter applications targeting Stamford and select other cities.