Turnaround Brief #1
Education Resource Strategies, March 15, 2012
This is the first in a series that compiles and analyzes the results of our Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011.
Entries tagged with: Turnaround
Sustaining Turnaround at Scale - Session Summaries
A brief description of every panel presentation from the ERS Summit, Sustaining Turnaround at Scale.
Memphis White Paper:
Learning When to Hold'em and When to Fold'em
ERS, October 27, 2010
If your school district is facing a budget issue, it might surprise you to learn that the solution might very well lie in a game of cards. That certainly was the case earlier this year for the city schools of Memphis, Tennessee.
Sustaining Turnaround at Scale - Posters:
A comparison of district turnaround strategies
Education Resource Strategies held a summit, “Sustaining Turnaround at Scale”. As part of the summit’s effort to compare different turnaround strategies, ERS created posters showing different and unique turnaround strategies.
Video: Turnaround in Action
ERS, March 2011
See how two schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC district are approaching turnaround.
Turnaround Schools:
District Strategies for Success and Sustainability
ERS, September 2010
Help ensure that efforts to turnaround the worst performing schools lead to sustainable improvement for the students.
Turning Around the Nation’s Lowest Performing Schools
by Karen Baroody
Center for American Progress, January 2011
Released with the Center for American Progress, this paper will help district leaders systematically implement a district-level turnaround strategy.
Two At-Risk Students: Using Data to Explore Why One Stays on Track and the Other Drops Out
At times, students with similar backgrounds can achieve markedly different results. One student may graduate and go on to college. Another may drop out. Learn how seemingly insignificant differences in instruction and district investment can make a huge difference in a student’s ultimate performance.
