School Turnaround In Secondary Schools

Author : Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin
Publisher : IAP
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641138758

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School Turnaround in Secondary Schools by Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin Pdf

In the continuing quest to turnaround the lowest performing schools, rapid and sustainable reform, or school turnaround, seems most elusive for secondary schools. Secondary schools are rife with challenges due to their wide-ranging mission and organizational complexity. With the continued emphasis on college and career readiness and the vast learning possibilities enhanced by technology, our third book in this series, Contemporary Perspectives on School Turnaround and Reform, focuses on rapid school turnaround and reform in secondary schools. In this edited volume, researchers and scholars consider the doubly perplexing challenge of school turnaround or the rapid improvement of the lowest-performing secondary schools. Although there is some evidence that school turnaround policy can impact student achievement scores, research across international contexts seldom identifies schools that substantially changed student learning trajectories and sustained them. Separately, many societies have found improving secondary schools a relatively intractable problem for multiple reasons, including school size and complexity, the micropolitics of teaching and leading within them, and cumulative widening student achievement gaps. In combination, there are almost no examples of low-performing secondary schools turning around. The chapters in this book begin to offer some hope about how policymakers, practitioners, and researchers might begin to reconceptualize how they engage in and undertake the work of rapidly improving low-performing secondary schools. The authors provide theoretical and conceptual advancements, offer lessons learned from both successful and unsuccessful initiatives, and address practical issues with potentially accessible ways forward.

Author : Ben Jensen,Julie Sonnemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925015513

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Turning Around Schools by Ben Jensen,Julie Sonnemann Pdf

Author : Kenneth Leithwood,Alma Harris,Tiiu Strauss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470407660

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Leading School Turnaround by Kenneth Leithwood,Alma Harris,Tiiu Strauss Pdf

LEADING SCHOOL TURNAROUND Leading School Turnaround offers new perspectives and concrete, evidence-based guidelines for the educational leaders and administrators faced with the challenge of turning our low-performing schools around. Using the tools outlined in this groundbreaking book, school leaders can guide their schools to higher levels of achievement and sustained academic success. Based on research conducted in the United States, Canada, and England, Leading School Turnaround addresses in three parts the dynamic context of the turnaround environment, what turnaround leaders do, and the incredible challenges of moving from turnaround to "stay around." Filled with illustrative examples, the book outlines the best practices and behaviors successful turnaround leaders exercise. The authors include detailed information for applying the four main categories of turnaround leadership: direction setting, developing people, redesigning the school, and managing the instructional program. This important resource can help any school leader get their school back on the track to academic success.

Author : Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin
Publisher : IAP
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648026751

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Rural School Turnaround and Reform by Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin Pdf

We have entitled the fourth book in the series Rural School Turnaround and Reform: It’s Hard Work! Overall, the body of scholarly work and research that examines school turnaround and reform in rural areas is slim; as such, this volume adds to the body of work and contributes to new knowledge in a much-needed area. In this volume, we present chapters that speak to the challenges, successes, and opportunities to improve low-performing rural schools. Chapters range from conceptual arguments to policy analyses or research findings, as well as some combination of these or other ways to consider rural school turnaround and reform.

Author : Lauren Morando Rhim,Sam Redding
Publisher : IAP
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623966720

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The State Role in School Turnaround by Lauren Morando Rhim,Sam Redding Pdf

With chapters written by leading researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the work, this Edited Volume examines the role of the state education agency in school turnaround efforts. An emphasis is placed on practical application of research and best practice related to the State Education Agency’s (SEA’s) critical leadership role in driving and supporting successful school turnaround efforts. The Edited Volume is organized around the Center on School Turnaround’s four objectives, with sections devoted to each: 1. Create a Pro-Turnaround Statutory and Regulatory Environment 2. Administer and Manage Turnaround Efforts Effectively 3. Provide Targeted and Timely Technical Assistance to Local Educational Agencies and Schools 4. Advocate and Lead to Build Support for Local Turnaround Efforts

Author : Rose M. Ylimaki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : 9783030768379

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Evidence-Based School Development in Changing Demographic Contexts by Rose M. Ylimaki Pdf

This Open Access book features a school development model (Arizona Initiative for Leadership Development and Research AZiLDR) that offers a roadmap for schools to navigate the complexities of continuous school development. Filled with processes that balance evidence-based values with democratic, culturally responsive values, this book offers strategies to mediate the tensions and to address school culture, context and values, leadership capacity, using data as a source of reflection, curricular and pedagogical activity, and strengths-based approaches to meeting the needs of culturally diverse students. You will find: - Active, reflective activities - Case studies illustrating each concept - The research base supporting each concept - Descriptions of processes from other contexts (South Carolina, Germany, Australia, Sweden) - Thoughts about next steps for contextually sensitive and multi-level school development - Suggestions for cross-national dialogue and research within the Zone of Uncertainty Use this ideal source to guide school leadership teams in creating productive schools that continually grow!

Author : Michael Fullan
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015066783229

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Turnaround Leadership by Michael Fullan Pdf

The real reform agenda -- Turning schools around -- Change -- Turning a whole system around.

Author : Epler, Pam L.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522583233

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Advanced Strategies and Models for Integrating RTI in Secondary Schools by Epler, Pam L. Pdf

To better identify and assist struggling students and avoid unnecessary placement into special education services, the service delivery model response to intervention (RTI) is used with the general education population. Even though RTI has been studied in elementary schools for many years, further research on its use at the secondary academic level is scarce. Advanced Strategies and Models for Integrating RTI in Secondary Schools provides emerging research exploring the advanced theoretical and practical aspects of the use of RTI to assist teachers in providing research-based instructional strategies to students who are failing their academic subjects. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as behavioral response, progress monitoring, and career readiness, this book is ideally designed for educators, researchers, and academic professionals seeking current research on the most effective models in place to promote positive student academic achievement.

Author : Joseph F. Murphy,Joshua F. Bleiberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030014346

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School Turnaround Policies and Practices in the US by Joseph F. Murphy,Joshua F. Bleiberg Pdf

This volume provides an analysis of what we know about turning around "failing" schools in the United States. It starts with an in-depth examination of the barriers that hinder action on turnaround work. The book analyses the reasons why some schools that find themselves in serious academic trouble fail in their efforts to turn themselves around. Beginning with a discussion of what may best be described as "lethal" reasons or the most powerful explanation for failed reform initiatives, which include an absence of attention to student care and support; a near absence of attention to curriculum and instruction; the firing of the wrong people. Covered in this volume are "critical" explanations for failed turnaround efforts such as failure to attend to issues of sustainability, and "significant" explanations for failed turnaround efforts such as the misuse of test data. The volume concludes by examining what can be done to overcome problems that cause failure for turnaround schools and reviewing ideas in the core technology of schooling: curriculum, instruction, and assessment. As well as exploring problems associated with the leadership and management of schools to see where improvement is possible and an analysis of opportunities found in relationships between schools and their external partners such as parents and community members.

Author : Rosemary Papa,Fenwick W. English
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607099727

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Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools by Rosemary Papa,Fenwick W. English Pdf

There's no mystery in turning around low-performing or failing schools, but there are also no recipes. In Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools Rosemary Papa and Fenwick English identify the essential ingredients for success. The causesof failure are complex and interactive. Schools are not inert structures but living organisms. Putting schools back together is a collaborative venture. It takes a team to turn around a school, but it all begins with the leadership. The key to success rests in a school leader who has a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of schooling, human motivation, and possesses the resiliency and energy to engage in altering the internal landscape of an unsuccessful school. Two veteran educators have put together a work based on their research and experience for the past half-century. They pull no punches. The challenge is not only to turn low-performing or failing schools around, but to enable them to become more socially just places for all students.

Author : Keith Leithwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1896660428

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Turnaround Schools and the Leadership They Require by Keith Leithwood Pdf

Author : Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin
Publisher : IAP
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641133456

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International Perspectives on Leading Low-Performing Schools by Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin Pdf

Research is clear: School leadership quality matters. However, our knowledge of effective school leadership remains limited in at least three substantial ways. First, our understanding of school leadership effectiveness generally and school principal effectiveness specifically is limited to Western contexts, primarily North America and western European ones. Second, even in the confines of Western research and context, there has been relatively little specific focus on effectively leading low-performing schools. Third, even the conceptualization of leadership—do we mean the school principal, an administrative team, or a broader school leadership team—is a key factor in how we define and respond to the challenge of leading in low-performing schools. This book advances discussion and disseminates knowledge and global perspectives on what school leadership looks like, how it is enacted and under what circumstances, and when or where lessons might be portable. We anticipate this book having wide appeal for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners considering school leadership and how to support it effectively. The chapters suggest a noticeable level of convergence globally on how to lead low-performing schools effectively. Yet, there are clear political and culture differences that add significant gradation to how school leaders might enact best practice locally or inform policymakers and systems leaders about how to set up school leaders for success and subsequently support them. This book is one of the first that prioritizes the universality and nuance of leading low-performing schools globally.

Author : Daniel L. Duke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475810264

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Leadership for Low-Performing Schools by Daniel L. Duke Pdf

No greater challenge faces our society than improving the educational opportunities for millions of young people trapped in chronically low-performing schools. Overcoming this challenge requires talented and dedicated school leaders whose knowledge and skills extend far beyond what is covered in conventional principal preparation programs. This book draws on extensive research by the author and others on the actions needed to turn around low-performing schools. First, however, the book examines the personal qualities needed to undertake the turnaround process. Following chapters provide guidelines on diagnosing the school-based causes of low achievement and developing a school turnaround plan. The author focuses on the importance of continuous planning – a departure from standard practice. A major portion of the book is devoted to examples of first-order and second-order strategies for raising achievement. Specific recommendations for launching the turnaround process and sustaining gains beyond the first years of turnaround are provided. The concluding chapter addresses the role of school districts in supporting school-based turnaround efforts.

Author : Pamela Cantor,David Osher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000399776

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The Science of Learning and Development by Pamela Cantor,David Osher Pdf

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.

Author : Peng Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789813362727

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Transforming Turnaround Schools in China by Peng Liu Pdf

This book provides a holistic picture of how Chinese turnaround schools have been remarkably improved over the years and to arouse further discussion in this regard. It contributes to the understanding of school improvement from a Chinese cultural perspective, solidifies the knowledge basis of school change theories, and expands the understanding of educational administration and policies in China.