Download or read book A Single Case Study Exploring Teacher and Administrator Experience in a Turnaround Elementary School written by Justin Chad Good and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Turnaround Leadership written by Michael Fullan and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real reform agenda -- Turning schools around -- Change -- Turning a whole system around.

Download or read book Sustaining Success in a Turnaround School written by Rebecca Jamme Savage and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The school turnaround initiative and school reform have been focal points of the national education conversation since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was enacted by Congress under the Johnson Administration. No Child Left Behind (NCLB, 2001) built upon the concept of equal access to a high-quality education for all children with a heavy emphasis on academic standards and high-stakes assessment. This focus on student achievement-backed accountability put pressure on states and districts to ensure that all schools performed at high levels. When significant resources are allocated to schools in need of improvement, the importance of sustaining successful turnaround is paramount. This case study focuses on a single elementary school that achieved sustained success after a turnaround under the Florida School Grade accountability model. This case study provides insight into the perceptions of key members of the school leadership team, including the principal, assistant principal, teacher leader, and others, in regard to what systems and practices were established and utilized during and after the school turnaround period. The findings of this study offer additional research on sustained school turnaround efforts.

Download or read book A Turnaround Network written by Marie Morse and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this qualitative, case study was to examine and better understand the impact a multischool turnaround network had on school turnaround and improvement efforts in a large, urban, school district. This study specifically focused on the roles of both principals and central office administrators, the impact of adopted practices and the experience of members of the turnaround network. The study investigated both, what factors, structures, strategies and practices were perceived to have positively influenced the network and additionally what challenges and disadvantages existed within the network. The Burke-Litwin performance and change model (Burke & Litwin, 1992) served as the theoretical framework and guided the design and analysis of this study. A literature review that included the historical impact, successful strategies, essential elements and the use of networks in school turnaround efforts informed this study. The central questions of the study include: 1. How did the network support central office leaders and principals in their turnaround work? 2. What were the various conditions, practices, and factors that contributed to the success of the network? 3. What were the perceptions of both principal and central office members about the advantages, disadvantages or challenges of network membership and participation? A case study approach was used to explore and describe the perceptions of experiences of principals and administrators. It was evident the move to a networked learning model provided the leadership, direction, and guidance that assisted multiple schools navigate the chaotic landscape of school turnaround"--Author's abstract.

Download or read book Where Teachers Thrive written by Susan Moore Johnson and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 PROSE Award Winner, Education Theory Category 2019 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In Where Teachers Thrive, Susan Moore Johnson outlines a powerful argument about the importance of the school as an organization in nurturing high‐quality teaching. Based on case studies conducted in fourteen high-poverty, urban schools, the book examines why some schools failed to make progress, while others achieved remarkable results. It explores the challenges that administrators and teachers faced and describes what worked, what didn’t work, and why. Johnson draws on vivid portraits of schools to highlight an array of school‐based systems and practices that support teachers’ professional growth and effectiveness. These include a rich and interactive hiring process; team‐based curriculum planning and assessment; and informative feedback and ongoing professional learning. Critical to all of these is the role of the principal as an essential agent in a school’s success. Although these elements may vary from school to school, Johnson argues that together these systems provide a comprehensive, mutually reinforcing set of well-orchestrated strategies that can help schools deliver results that exceed the sum of teachers’ individual efforts. Since 2000, policy makers and education officials have diligently sought to improve schools by improving the quality of individual teachers. However, even if those teachers are skilled and committed, the schools where they work are all too often disjointed, dysfunctional organizations that serve no one well. Where Teachers Thrive explains clearly how educators within a school can join together to adopt systems of practice that ensure growth and success by all teachers and their students.

Download or read book The Turnaround Challenge written by Efrain Olivo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 8, 2002, the U.S. Congress passed Public Law 107-110, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001: Improving the Academic Achievement Of the Disadvantaged. The purpose of NCLB is "to close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind" (P.L. 107-110, 20 USC 6301, p. 1, Jan. 8, 2002). Over the next 10 years, schools nationwide faced daily challenges of educating children to meet the rigorous standards of NCLB (Le Floch, Martinez, O'Day, Stecher, Taylor & Cook, 2007; Thim, Hassel, & Redding, 2008). Unfortunately, many states had many schools labeled as low-performing and mired in chronic failure as identified in 5000 United States failing schools (National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices, 2011; U.S. Department of Education, 2011). In an effort to address this achievement shortfall, the Obama Administration made "turnaround" a major priority by issuing the School Turnaround Learning Community (STLC) program in July 2011, including school improvement grants, alignment of existing federal resources, and ESEA flexibility (Manwaring, 2010; STLC, 2012). There are many studies on school improvement and the effectiveness of school reform (Dana Center, 2002; Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, 2012; Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2006; Taylor, 2002); however, there are few studies that have examined the long-term successful turnaround scale up efforts of struggling schools in high poverty, high-minority communities (Calkins, A., Guenther, W.H., Hess, F.M., Kendrick, R.H., 2008). There are some case studies on the turnaround successes of elementary schools, but no major studies on turnaround successes in the secondary schools focusing on the role of the principal as a school turnaround leader. While education has created some academic progress for the low-income, the greatest challenge to literacy in the U.S. is how to educate poor and minority children while closing the achievement gap between high-poverty, high-minority students and majority students (Calkins, A., Guenther, W., Belfiore, G., & Lash, D., 2010; Elmore, 2004; Hill, 2006; Reyes & Rodriguez, 2009). A recent study (Branch, Hanushek, & Rivkin, 2012) on the outcome-based estimates of principal value-added to student achievement revealed a significant variation in principal qualities that appear to be larger for high-poverty schools. The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the role of accountability on school turnarounds in two major suburban Texas public school districts. It explored the relations between Texas accountability status and race, and economic status for the sample schools using 2010-2011 Texas Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS). The relations were explored between state and federal (NCLB) accountability ratings, and economic status and race for the sample schools for 2010-2011. Finally, the study explored relations between principal characteristics and student achievement in two major suburban Texas public school districts. This study addressed correlational research between: 1. Accountability and student characteristics; 2. Accountability and school characteristics; and, 3. Accountability and student achievement. This quantitative study used correlational research to determine the relation between school accountability, the independent variable, and dependent variables of race, and economic status, and student achievement. This study sought to understand which variables relate to turnaround accountability status using Texas Education Agency (TEA) accountability data and the state NCLB Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) data (TEA, 2011). A survey method was used to gather school and principal data which were analyzed using simple statistics and frequencies (Babbie, 1990; Fink & Koseoff, 1998; Mellenbergh, 2008; Scheaffer, Mendenhall, & Ott, 1990). The survey was used to collect information on principal and school background characteristics. Archival data for Texas accountability and federal accountability were retrieved from the TEA Accountability Rating System (AEIS). Correlational analyses were conducted between two major suburban Texas public school districts. Correlational relations were analyzed for state and federal accountability ratings, and economic status and race for the sample schools for 2010-2011. For this study, the three most significant relations found to the p

Download or read book Exploring Organizational Transformation Through Takeover written by Aida Tatiossian and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this retrospective qualitative case study is to examine a charter school, in a takeover situation, and the factors of an organizational takeover associated with a change in school culture and student outcomes from May 2012 through October 2013, under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), to the present day. The study follows the historical course of the takeover of the school to present day and examines how changes initiated, during the period of the acquisition, have shaped school culture and student outcomes. School turnaround is still at the forefront of education; however, there is limited research on school turnaround and the factors that shaped school culture and student outcomes and even less research on, turnaround schools that have experienced takeover. For this study, the research site was a charter school in Los Angeles, with a population of approximately 900 students that experienced a takeover due to low student performance levels and financial concerns. Interviews utilized a stratified purposeful sample, and individuals directly involved in the acquisition or during the aftermath of the takeover were invited to participate. Document review was limited to those documents, having to do with the acquisition, which were provided by the school's leadership and governing board. Current documents were also be analyzed to disclose recent events related to school culture and student achievement data. The research traditions included a single case study and grounded theory design, primarily associated with the research of Strauss and Corbin (1998), who co-authored a book that described the use of grounded theory. I utilized a purposeful sample and interviewed seed teachers, new teachers, rehired teachers, and the current director and executive director. Seed teachers were key employees who were transferred from the takeover organization (Cypress Charter) to Crepe Myrtle Elementary Charter School. New teachers were new to Crepe Myrtle during the time of the takeover, but not necessarily new to the teaching profession. Rehired teachers are those educators who were initially employed at Crepe Myrtle Elementary Charter School and then hired back by the takeover organization, Cypress Charter. Furthermore, not rehired teachers and one of the former directors also participated, since Crepe Myrtle Elementary Charter School prior, to the takeover, had a co-directorship model. Finally, I interviewed current board members who were involved during the takeover. These individuals appropriately informed this research along with relevant document review.

Download or read book Leading School Turnaround written by Denise Arla Snowden and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This phenomenological case study explored the experiences of 5 transformation coaches who led the implementation of a federal school improvement grant at four urban high schools in a public school district in the southern United States. The knowledge generated from this inquiry provided new insight into the role of the transformation coach. The research question driving this study was: What is the lived experience of the transformation coach during the first year of implementation of the transformation intervention model? Naturalistic inquiry was used to collect qualitative data through semi-structured interviews and document analysis including researcher field notes and learning community agendas. The data were explicated using open codes and memoing, then categorically coded leading to the identification of 5 themes represented as tensions: formal vs. informal authority; ambiguity vs. clarity of expectations; closed vs. open relationships; vision vs. reality; and turnaround vs. instructional leadership. The interpretation of these themes revealed 5 assertions that captured the experiences of the transformation coaches: (1) Holding a position of formal authority yet protected from conducting teacher evaluations is necessary for transformation coaches to provide receptive support and feedback to teachers; (2) Clear expectations and ongoing professional learning experiences are necessary for the preparation, support and alignment of transformation coaches; (3) Establishing strong, open, trusting relationships with teachers and students is essential for transformation coaches to overcome resistance to change and move the turnaround initiative forward; (4) A high degree of administrative and managerial skills including prioritization, documentation, and multi-tasking are required of transformation coaches to effectively and efficiently meet the demands of the school improvement grant; and (5) Instructional and turnaround leadership responsibilities are shared by transformation coaches and school principals. Actionable recommendations are presented to education professionals including school principals, local education agencies (district human resource personnel and district school turnaround personnel), policy makers, university personnel and researchers. Investing in the preparation and ongoing support of transformation coaches as well as establishing a partnership relationship between transformation coaches and school principals were critical recommendations emerging from this research. School turnaround leadership preparation needs to be addressed on a broader scale including the establishment of turnaround leadership preparation programs, job-embedded support for leaders of school turnaround, and partnerships between K-12 organizations and universities.

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Download or read book School Family and Community Partnerships written by Joyce L. Epstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Download or read book Learning to Lead Together written by Janet Chrispeels and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to Lead examines the dilemmas principals face in engaging teachers in shared leadership. The text makes a contribution to the field of educational leadership, administration, and leader preparation through cases and the description of professional development initiatives to prepare pre-service principals and administrators for shared leadership. Authors from the United States, England, and Australia present a broad brushstroke of principals sharing leadership through original field-based research, set within a theoretical framework of democratic schooling. to explore the importance of principals sharing and distributing leadership. Until recently, most of the focus has been on teachers and collaborative leadership building. through real-life single and multiple case studies, the text addresses how principals and their staff's struggle with the challenge of shared leadership, and how they attain some of the promise leading to teacher growth and development, as well as to higher levels of student learning. the cases in the text provide pre-service principals and administrators with excellent examples of the real-life applications of various theoretical concepts. a variety of models and approaches of shared and distributed leadership are presented in school, district, and regional contexts, allowing students to see the commonalties that these settings share, as well as the differences between them. impact that those strategies have on teachers, school culture, and learning opportunities for students. Examples of preparation programs and the support that teachers want, if shared leadership is to be effectively implemented to meet student needs, provide future principals with the tools and insight that they need to be successful.

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Download or read book The TurnAround ToolKit written by Lynn Winters and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynn Winters's and Joan Herman's The Turnaround Toolkit is written for school leaders who are focused on transforming instruction, and who may be working under significant time constraints to reverse declining student achievement or public perceptions of school failure. Based on the evidence that simply implementing “continuous improvement” is not enough to close the achievement gap, The Turnaround Toolkit provides a nine-step formative evaluation program designed to achieve an immediate and consistent focus on improving instruction in order to bolster student achievement. In a straightforward and accessible fashion, Herman and Winters explain three overarching “Turnaround Tasks” that frame these steps and the necessary-and sometimes drastic-actions that must be taken by school leaders as they use data to strategically choose, implement, monitor, and revise school interventions. A dedicated, online “toolkit” offers numerous worksheets and templates that support each stage of the process and help school leaders scaffold the work of educators to put an aggressive turnaround plan into action while a leadership guide at the end of the book provides guidance to turnaround teams and facilitators.

Download or read book The Effects of Standardized Testing written by T. Kelleghan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish schools. While the primary purpose of the experimental study reported in this book was not to investigate the Pygmalion effect, it is inconceivable that a study of the effects of standardized testing, conceived in the 1960s and planned and executed in the 1970s, would not have been influenced by thinking about teachers' expectations and the influence of test information on the formation of those expectations. While our study did pay special attention to teacher expectations, its scope was much wider. It was planned and carried out in a much broader framework, one in which we set out to examine the impact of a standardized testing program, not just on teachers, but also on school practices, students, and students' parents.

Download or read book Global Leadership Perspectives on Industry Society and Government in an Era of Uncertainty written by Samad, Ataus and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A person in a leadership position frequently navigates through challenging environments and crisis situations. COVID-19’s fast global expansion has quickly surpassed the scale and breadth of other recent epidemics, and people are naturally inclined to look to leaders for direction while seeking authority and certainty. The importance of competent, calm, and trustworthy leadership is greater than ever during unpredictable and turbulent times as leadership effectiveness can be best judged in crisis environments. Global Leadership Perspectives on Industry, Society, and Government in an Era of Uncertainty examines how leaders from industry, society, and government respond to and manage crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic in a variety of cultural and national contexts. This book is poised to address contemporary leadership issues as well as the fundamental issues such as its definition, evolution of leadership theories, its distinction from management, and implications for gender, culture, and different fields of knowledge. Covering topics such as employee retention, leadership skills, and women entrepreneurs, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for leaders, managers, executives, investors, economic analysts, policymakers, human resource managers, entrepreneurs, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Download or read book The Science of Learning and Development written by Pamela Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life. Expanding key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes and how to address them. It points toward possible solutions through an understanding of and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the bases and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.

Download or read book Principal Succession written by Ann Weaver Hart and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines major issues in theory and research related to leader succession. It looks at the persistent problems confronted by people assigned to lead established social and professional groups like those found in schools. The author demonstrates how interaction between new leaders and established school organizations shape succession events (with illustrations drawn from educational administration) and provides a framework for understanding succession as a dynamic and interactive process.