This professional learning module provides state and district leaders with tools to coach and develop school turnaround leaders to take key leader actions.
Coaching for Impact: Six Pillars to Create Coaching Roles That Achieve Their Potential to Improve Teaching and Learning
Report outlines six pillars essential to creating meaningful coaching roles along with recommendations for those responsible for creating and supporting results-oriented coaching programs.
ESSA—New Law, New Opportunity: A Brief Guide to Excellence for State Leaders
Brief explains four opportunities to go beyond the requirements of ESSA to achieve a culture of excellence.
School Restart Authorization Process Guide
Process guide and related database offer step-by-step guidance for designing or refining the restart process.
Measuring School Turnaround Success
Report offers a national model for defining and measuring turnaround success that can be adapted to fit local contexts.
An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools Into Leadership Machines
Idea paper lays out a vision for how districts can reach dramatically more students with great principals, for much higher pay, within budget.
Growing a High-Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee
Report describes how favorable policy conditions, political leadership, and public-private grants accelerated the growth of high-quality charter schools in Memphis and Nashville.
Authorizer Shopping: Lessons from Experience and Ideas for the Future
Report considers five examples of authorizer shopping and provides specific guidance to authorizers, policymakers, and advocates to address it.
Recruit, Select, and Support: Turnaround Leader Competencies
Learning module provides state and district leaders with tools to identify and apply turnaround leader competencies to the selection and development of school turnaround leaders.
The Project L.I.F.T. Story: Early Lessons from a Public-Private Education Turnaround Education
Report examines the genesis of the Project L.I.F.T. initiative, a private-public partnership to improve graduation rates in the community.
Boosting Idaho Rural Students’ College Prospects by Expanding Access to Great Teaching
Report examines the challenges that prevent rural schools from providing great teaching, and presents four strategies for increasing access to highly effective instruction in rural Idaho.
Is Détente Possible? District-Charter School Relations in Four Cities
Report examines how districts work with the charters in their midst—in Boston, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, and Washington, D.C.