TOPIC: School Turnaround and Transformation (also see Quick Find on School Improvement Planning)

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Analysis of ESSA --After passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), we did an analysis of how ESSA addresses barriers to learning and  the implications for enhancing equity of opportunity. See ESSA, Equity of Opportunity, and Addressing Barriers to Learning

30 minute Introductory webinar
• Related to Transforming Student and Learning Supports
• Accompanying PDf handouts

Self-study Surveys
• Related to Transforming Student and Learning Supports
  

Policy Briefs, Notes, & Perspectives
• Blueprints for Education Reform: Have You Analyzed the Architects’ Vision?
• Common Core State Standards and Learning Supports
• ESSA, Equity of Opportunity, and Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Evolving School Improvement Planning for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Policy Implications for Advancing Systemic Change for School Improvement
• Systemic Change for School Improvement
• Transforming Learning Supports to Transform Schools
• Turning Around, Transforming, and Continuously Improving Schools: Federal Proposals are Still Based on a Two- Rather than a Three- Component Blueprint

Report
• New Directions for School Improvement Policy
• Bringing New Prototypes into Practice: Dissemination, Implementation, and Facilitating Transformation

Articles
• Scaling-Up Reforms Across A School District
• Systemic Change for School Improvement
• Toward a Scale-Up Model for Replicating New Approaches to Schooling
• Turning around, transforming, and continuously improving schools: Policy proposals are still based on a two rather than a three component blueprint

Guides to Practice & Guidance Notes
• Education Leaders’ Guide to Transforming Student and Learning Supports
• Guide for Planning Coaching for SEAs/LEAs to Establish a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• The MTSS Continuum: Essential but Not Comprehensive Enough – How to make it Better
• Prototype Strategic Plan for Guiding SEAs and LEAs in Developing a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Relaunching Student and Learning Supports
• School Improvement, School Transformation – Some Straight Talk

E-journal/Newsletter
• Whole Person, Whole School
• The Challenge of Addressing Equity of Opportunity for All Students: Broadening the Work of the Equity and Excellence Commission
• Common Core State Standards: What about Student and Learning Supports?

Books & Monographs
• The School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning.
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning.
• School Improvement: A Systemic View of What's Missing and What to Do About It
• Improving School Improvement
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System

Resource Aid
• Frameworks for Systemic Transformation of Student and Learning Supports

See Toolkit

• Transforming Student Supports into a Comprehensive System for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching

• 5 superintendents to watch in 2024
• Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA: A Handbook for LEA and School Leaders (July, 2017)
• Diplomas Now
• District leaders engaged in school turnaround: identified challenges and espoused responses
• Establishing Trusting Relationships to Transform School Systems
• How State Education Agencies Are Administering School Turnaround Efforts
• Preparing School Leaders for Success
• Reforming Education in California: A Guide for Citizens and Candidates
• School Improvement Ideas for Better Education
• School Turnaround as National Policy in the United States: Considerations from Three Studies Conducted in the Midwest
• Reimagining the roles of state and local education agencies
• School Turnaround Principals: What Does Initial Research Literature Suggest They Are Doing to Be Successful
• Talking back to the failing-schools narrative
• Transforming Educational Systems
• What does successful education reform look like?

• Center for School Turnaround and Improvement

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