Examples of
successful school turnaround efforts without effective leadership are rare (Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004).
Kafele is known nationally for
his successful school turnaround efforts and his deep understanding of what it takes to motivate low - performing students of color.
Not exact matches
Clearly, many
school turnaround efforts have not been
successful.
Previously, he served in hybrid teacher leadership roles developing and operationalizing
successful school turnaround, design initiatives, and change - management efforts within the Los Angeles Unified School Dis
school turnaround, design initiatives, and change - management
efforts within the Los Angeles Unified
School Dis
School District.
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.
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.
In her past and present roles she has been
successful at developing strategic
school - wide plans related to
school improvement, assessment transformation, expansion of curriculum and
turnaround school efforts.
The
turnaround effort — dubbed Apollo 20 — is unique in that it's adopting many principles seen in
successful charter
schools and applying them to this urban district of over 200,000 students.
Some districts are more rigorous in their charter applications and other districts like Denver are very open, so the growth in Denver, especially in looking at the
turnaround and transformation are strongly suggested that they turn into charter
schools rather than in other districts that we looked at in Pueblo and in Center and in Sheridan where they're really putting all their
efforts into making the traditional
school successful rather than turning it into another model..
CAP and ERS outline sustainable
turnaround practices for state policymakers and recommend the appropriate roles for the federal government, states, districts, and
schools to play in supporting
successful turnaround efforts.