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  New CII Report: School Turnarounds: Action and Results This new Center on Innovation and Improvement (CII) report, School Turnarounds: Action and Results, provides descriptive, real-world vignettes that illustrate for practitioners the actions that successful school leaders have taken to turn around low-performing schools. This resource tool begins by identifying and explaining the fourteen leader actions associated with a successful turnaround. Furthermore, descriptive vignettes are provided to illustrate each leader action. These vignettes were drawn from case studies documenting successful turnarounds. Some vignettes relate to more than one action and are thus repeated where they apply. Authors' note that one important caveat is in order about the definition of “successful turn-around.” Ideally, a school turnaround would generate substantial gains in student learning in year one that were then sustained over time. In the literature reviewed here, however, case studies often were not able to take such a long term view. The Duke et al. (2005) study, for example, examined 10 turnaround efforts after their first year. Turnarounds deemed (initially) successful by the researchers were those in which the schools made Adequate Yearly Progress – a status that none of the ten had achieved for three years prior to the turnaround attempts. These schools may or may not be turn- around success stories in the long-term. All that can be said is that the vignettes captured here are from school turn arounds deemed successful by researchers at the time of their studies. Over time, as experience and research accumulates, it will be possible to zero in on stories of school turnarounds that were sustained over time. Please note that in order to retrieve a copy of this CII publication, readers must complete a survey prior to downloading CII documents. For more information about this CII publication, click on the URL link listed below. Related Resources from SchoolsMovingUp: SchoolsMovingUp's Reading Room section provides articles, books, and abstracts offering practical ideas and models for school improvement. For easy reference, resources are organized by major topics. For related information on school improvement, go to the School Improvement section of SchoolsMovingUp's Reading Room. URL: http://www.centerii.org/ |
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