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Recruiting and Selecting Turnaround Principals, Teachers and Teacher-Leaders

These step-by-step guides provide selection steps and tools for hiring principals, teachers AND teacher-leaders for turnaround schools. The toolkits include detailed levels of increasingly effective competence, selection questions, and guidance on how to conduct interviews that reveal information about competencies, and scoring rubrics.

 

Recruiting and Selecting Turnaround Principals
  • School Turnaround Leaders: Selection Toolkit—For hiring principals
    • Selection Preparation Guide
    • Day-of-Interview Tools
    • Candidate Rating Tools
  • Recruit, Select, and Support: Turnaround Leader Competencies Professional Learning Module: This three-part professional learning module, developed by Public Impact, the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, the Center on School Turnaround, and the University of Virginia Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education, includes:
    • Understanding Turnaround Leader Competencies,
    • Recruiting and Selecting Turnaround Leaders, and
    • Developing and Supporting Turnaround Leaders.

     

 

Recruiting and Selecting Turnaround Teachers and Teacher-Leaders
  • School Turnaround Teachers: Selection Toolkit
    • Selection Preparation Guide
    • Day-of-Interview Tools
    • Candidate Rating Tools
  • Recruiting and Selecting Teacher-Leaders. Opportunity Culture turnaround schools have produced far more high growth and less low growth than comparable schools, jump-starting turnarounds in multiple states. Most add multi-classroom leaders—accountable, paid teacher-leaders—to help teachers schoolwide implement a culture of instructional excellence.
    • Opportunity Culture Recruitment Toolkit: Early, active recruitment and strong communications are essential to reach great candidates—both within a district and from elsewhere—and encourage them to apply for teacher-leader roles.
    • Opportunity Culture Teacher and Staff Selection Toolkit: Districts that have added Opportunity Culture teacher-leader roles have seen a surge of applications. This toolkit helps districts and principals adapt to a higher volume of applications and select wisely from among teacher-leader candidates.

 

More Resources

  • School Turnarounds: Actions and Results

    Read the Report

    Actions-and-ResultsThis 2008 report by Dana Brinson, Julie Kowal and Bryan Hassel for the Center on Innovation and Improvement, illustrates how the 14 leader actions of successful turnarounds have played out in turnaround schools. The report provides a description of the 14 leader actions, illustrative vignettes, and an annotated bibliography of the case studies included in the report and builds on Public Impact’s prior work entitled School Turnarounds: A Review of the Cross-Sector Evidence on Dramatic Organizational Improvement, a report on education-specific examples of turnarounds.

  • Using Competencies to Improve School Turnaround Principal Success

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    School-Principal-TurnaroundThis paper, produced for the University of Virginia’s School Turnaround Specialist Program, describes how using competencies that predict performance can improve turnaround principal selection, evaluation, and development.  Although the term “competency” often describes any work-related skill, in this context competencies are the underlying motives  and habits—patterns of thinking, feeling, acting, and speaking—that cause a person to be successful in a specific job or role.  (more…)

  • Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds: Lessons and Opportunities

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    Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds-1This report for the University of Virginia’s Partnership for Leaders in Education explores lessons about when and how organizations in other sectors import leaders – including how they tempt people away, train them, and foster their success – to inform efforts by state and local leaders to import talent for failing schools. One of the biggest challenges in education today is identifying talented candidates to successfully lead turnarounds of persistently low-achieving schools. (more…)

  • Turnaround Principal Competencies

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    School Administrator coverIn this 2012 article for School Administrator magazine, Lucy Steiner and Sharon Kebschull Barrett examine how understanding competencies—the habits of behavior and underlying motivations that help predict how newly hired employees will do their jobs—can help administrators, such as those in Minneapolis, hire the skillful leaders they need to turn around even the most troubled schools. Given that only 30 percent of turnarounds—in education and other fields—succeed, schools need leaders with a clear vision and the ability to make that vision a reality. Minneapolis Pubic Schools used competencies in their newly rigorous hiring process to make promising principal hires and to give the new leaders the support they need to keep turnarounds from becoming just another failed reform effort.

Turnarounds Within Schools

  • Turnarounds Within Schools
  • For Turnaround Principals
  • For Turnaround Teachers & Teacher-Leaders
  • For Districts & States Leading Turnarounds
  • Turnaround Competencies and Actions
    —Principals and Teachers
  • Turnaround School Planning Tools
  • Recruiting and Selecting Turnaround Principals, Teachers and Teacher-Leaders

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