Sentences with phrase «which turnaround model»

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Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Chicago is considered a national model for its turnaround program, which U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan launched while CEO of the district.

For example, the SIG program was written such that SEA had no power to tell districts which of the four «turnaround» models to use (and of course, most districts then chose the weakest models).

About 20 percent of the SIG schools chose the second option, the «turnaround» model, which required replacing at least half the staff.

On the schools chosen for transformation, a less drastic turnaround model in which teachers keep their jobs: «We made the selection by looking at the schools that were on the upward trajectory.

For example, several studies of School Improvement Grants (SIG) suggest the largest student achievement gains were made in sites adopting the «turnaround» model, which prescribed the most intensive practices with regard to replacing staff (Dee, 2012; Dragoset et al., 2017).

After receiving a $ 2.9 million School Improvement Grant over three years, Oak Hill enforced drastic reforms under the turnaround model, which required the district to replace the principal and at least half of the school's staff.

This was done via the Office of Turnaround, which deliberately encouraged turnaround school committees to look to CMO's as «lead partners» in a school reform model.

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

readers learned of an apparent deal by Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor and his senior staff to turn over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to a major Washington D.C. based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in pursuing.

Beyond that, few details are available about the plan, such as the amount of funding over which states will have more discretion and the turnaround models that failing schools will have to use.

These models include: transformation, which entails replacing the school principal and undertaking three other specific reforms; turnaround, which involves replacing the principal and many of the school staff; restart, which means becoming a charter or privately managed school; and school closure.

They propose to launch a new K - 8 Innovation charter school in Indianapolis, which would be the seventh version of a school turnaround model that has been tested and refined in Detroit and Newark, NJ.