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The TurnAround ToolKit
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
- Grade Level: K-12
- ISBN: 9781412975018
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2010
- Page Count: 312
- Publication date: June 19, 2012
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Description
"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 comprehensiveresource hasit 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"
