"Turnaround principals" refer to experienced leaders or managers who are brought in to improve and transform struggling or failing organizations, usually with the goal of making them successful and profitable again.
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She began her career as Assistant Attorney General in the Education Division of the Minnesota State Attorney General's Office; served as a Vice President for the Fresh Start Women's Foundation, which helps women transform their lives through personal development and education; and later on was hired as a mid-year
turnaround principal at Teleos Preparatory Academy in Phoenix, Arizona.
Our experiences serving
as turnaround principals in Texas and South Carolina and then working with underperforming schools while at SEDL have revealed insights on the core actions that leaders take in successfully leading school transformations.
We supported the Maricopa County Education Service Agency (MCESA) in its work to develop and deliver a series of principal professional development sessions
for turnaround principals across MCESA school districts, focusing on strengthening the principals» ability to lead change in schools.
It may well be that the schools that Governor Warner wants to help most will solve their dysfunction only with significant and simultaneous infusions of new staff as well as the kinds
of turnaround principals that Warner so aptly observes are needed.
The School Turnaround section of the Doing What Works website, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, features video interviews with Bryan C. Hassel about the leadership strategies that recur in successful turnarounds and the district's role in
supporting turnaround principals.
This paper, produced for the University of Virginia's School Turnaround Specialist Program, describes how using competencies that predict performance can
improve turnaround principal selection, evaluation, and development.
Rashida has worked in school leadership for the past 12 years as
school turnaround principal, district administrator, academic director, and dean of students.
Drawing on her study of
effective turnaround principals as they assumed leadership of a floundering school, Chenoweth highlights in detail the kind of organizational and intellectual obstacles these leaders had to overcome, and how they did so.
The series includes guides and toolkits that help
select turnaround principals and teachers based on the competencies — or patterns of thinking, feeling, speaking, and acting — that enable them to be successful in turnarounds.
To help oversee the turnaround process, Ronan tapped Laura Mitchell, herself a
former turnaround principal, to serve as the deputy superintendent in charge of the initiative.
Examine high - quality adult learning and implications for competency - based development of turnaround principals
She joins the Center to support the Center's coaching and leadership development work, including the LEAD Connecticut coaching program
for turnaround principals.
These turnaround principals should have a proven record of overcoming adversity in schools.
As
a turnaround principal at a Washington D.C. high school, Karen Smith grew weary of losing students to violence.
To provide the support that novice, newly hired, aspiring, and
turnaround principals must have to fully develop their leadership skills through ongoing, consistent, individualized professional development opportunities and expert coaching with highly - qualified mentors.
In this article, the authors (including the school's
turnaround principal) document seven practices that changed the school's culture into one built on relational trust.
In her 24 years of educational leadership, Aaronda Beauford has held an array of positions, from principal supervisor and
turnaround principal to district human resources supervisor and charter school CEO.
She then served in principal roles from 1999 - 2010, most recently serving as
a turnaround principal at Druid Hills Academy in CMS.
Also, the work they have done supporting
our turnaround principals has been invaluable.
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