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The TurnAround ToolKit

Managing Rapid, Sustainable School Improvement
By: Lynn Winters, Joan Herman

Foreword by Carl A. Cohn

Transform your school with research-based tools!

Dramatically improve your school's performance in a short time with The TurnAround Toolkit. The text offers a nine-step formative evaluation method based on data-driven continuous improvement processes. The steps are framed within the context of three overarching "turnaround tasks" that begin with realigning systems, progress to integrating data to create the turnaround plan, and, finally, set the stage for ongoing plan revision. Included are proven methods for:

  • Improving school and student achievement
  • Meeting accountability targets
  • Increasing your school's competitive edge and reputation
  • Building a solid system for ongoing school improvement

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  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412975018
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2010
  • Page Count: 312
  • Publication date: June 19, 2012

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"An absolute MUST-READ for school leaders who need to generate school improvement immediately! This book will help you make your school's turnaround a success."
—Bruce Haddix, Principal
Center Grove Elementary School, Greenwood, IN

"The authors go to the heart of school improvement by addressing the critical need to elevate learning for all students through the use of formative data and evaluation."
—Jim Lentz, Superintendent
USD 402 Augusta Public Schools, KS

Transform your school with research-based tools!

If you want to dramatically improve your school's performance in a short time, this book is for you. Using formative evaluation, The TurnAround ToolKit offers educators a nine-step method based on data-driven continuous improvement processes. Experts and experienced practitioners Lynn Winters and Joan Herman frame these steps within three overarching "turnaround tasks" that begin with realigning systems, progress to integrating data to create the turnaround plan, and, finally, set the stage for ongoing plan revision. Collaboration and rigorous reflection are interwoven through all the steps. The authors clearly explain how to use data to strategically choose, implement, and monitor school interventions. Included are proven methods for:

  • Improving school and student achievement
  • Meeting accountability targets
  • Increasing your school's competitive edge and reputation
  • Building a solid system for ongoing school improvement

This comprehensive resource has it all—a clear step-by-step procedure, tools for implementing each step, pocket summaries for each chapter, and leadership guides to walk you through the process.


 


Key features

  • Shines a light into the black box of school level turnaround work by providing a strategy—formative evaluation—for choosing, implementing, monitoring and revising school (and by extension classroom) interventions designed to improve student achievement and meet Adequate Yearly Progress.
  • Includes two distinct sections—Turnaround Tasks and The Toolkit—designed to walk school leaders through the turnaround process and provide them with the tools to do the work effectively.
  • Highlights three "Turnaround Tasks" within the formative evaluation process for improving instruction: 1) Creating an Instructional Focus; 2) Collecting, Summarizing and Analyzing Data; and 3) Using Data to Maintain an Instructional Focus
  • Each turnaround task is broken down into three manageable steps that constitute the nine-step formative evaluation process.
  • Includes easy-to-use tools and templates for educators who may not have extensive experience with data collection and analysis
  • Subsumes and builds upon current data-driven decision-making approaches such as "Baldrige" or "the cycle of inquiry"
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Lynn Winters

Lynn Winters was the Assistant Superintendent for Research Long Beach Unified School District, nationally recognized by the President and the Broad Prize for implementing systems for data guided decision making. She currently consults for Urban School Imagineers training urban school data teams and evaluating an urban school leadership training program.. Prior positions include Lecturer in Social Research Methods at the UCLA Graduate School of Education, high school teaching (history, Spanish and Special Education); county office assessment consultant; Director of Research for Palos Verdes Schools; and Project Director for three grants at the UCLA National Center for Evaluation, Student Standards and Testing.She has co-authored two books with Joan Herman of UCLA CRESST, A Practical Guide to Alternative Assessment,(ASCD) and Tracking Your School’s Success (Corwin Press), and is a reviewer for Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE), the AERA journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA, and Educational Assessment. In addition, she has over a dozen published journal articles and regularly presents at the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting.
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Joan Herman

Joan L. Herman is Director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA. Her research has explored the effects of accountability and assessment on schools and teachers and the design of assessment systems to support school planning and instructional improvement. Her recent work has focused on the quality and consequences of teachers' formative assessment practices. She also has wide experience as an evaluator of school reform.

Dr. Herman is noted in bridging research, and practice, particularly in applications serving English Language Learners and at-risk students. Among her books are Tracking Your School's Success: A Guide to Sensible School-Based Evaluation; and A Practical Guide to Alternative Assessment, both of which have been popular resources for schools across the country. A former teacher and school board member, Dr. Herman is an elected AERA fellow, has published extensively in research journals and is a frequent advisor to prominent national and state research and development initiatives, including repeated service to the National Academy. She is past president of the California Educational Research Association; has held a variety of leadership positions in the American Educational Research Association, National Organization of Research Centers, and Knowledge Alliance; chairs the Para Los Niños school board, and is current editor of the research journal, Educational Assessment.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Carl A. Cohn


Publisher's Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Introduction

Part I. The 3 Rs of Turnaround Work: Realign, Redesign, Refine


Section I. Realign: Create the Structures for Turnaround Work


1. Develop Systems for Managing Turnaround Activities: Distributed Leadership, Collaborative Teams, Expert Reviewers and Networks, Data Capacity

2. Organize Information Needed to Redesign Programs

3. Prepare Data Summaries and Displays

Section II. Redesign: Use Data to Create the Turnaround Plan


4. Identify the Turnaround Focus

5. Redesign Programs to Address the Turnaround Focus

6. Develop and Implement the Turnaround Plan

Section III. Refine: Evaluate and Revise the Turnaround Plan


7. Design an Evaluation of the Turnaround Plan

8. Analyze Evaluation Data and Revise the Program

9. The 4th R of Turnaround Work: Reflect on Lessons Learned

Part II. Leader's Guides for The TurnAround ToolKit


Introduction to Leader's Guides

1. Develop Systems for Managing Turnaround Activities: Distributed Leadership, Collaborative Teams, Expert Reviewers and Networks, Data Capacity: Leader's Guide

2. Organize Information Needed to Redesign Programs: Leader's Guide

3. Prepare Data Summaries and Displays: Leader's Guide

4. Identify the Turnaround Focus: Leader's Guide

5. Redesign Programs to Address the Turnaround Focus: Leader's Guide

6. Develop and Implement the Turnaround Plan: Leader's Guide

7. Design an Evaluation of the Turnaround Plan: Leader's Guide

8. Analyze Evaluation Data and Revise the Program: Leader's Guide

Endnotes


Resources and References


Index


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