By Public Impact Public Impact announces with pleasure the seventh cohort of Opportunity Culture Fellows, made up of eight principals who have achieved strong results in their schools and districts. Fellows provide support to their cohort, take one another’s ideas back to their schools, write columns or lead webinars about their experiences, and speak locally […]
Diagnosis: Principal Failure. Rx: Listen, Act, Cure
In the webinar, a school principal describes how he turned his school’s climate around and shares his tools for gathering data and acting on it.
More From the Opportunity Culture Fellows Convening
In September, Public Impact convened its Opportunity Culture Fellows for collaboration and learning, featuring sessions on tools to help educators personalize instruction, the science of reading, strategies of multi-classroom leaders and principals for team leadership and leading schoolwide change, and effective advocacy within schools and districts. On the Opportunity Culture blog, we are sharing some […]
Learning From and With Opportunity Culture Fellows
In September, Public Impact convened its Opportunity Culture Fellows for a day of collaboration and learning which featured sessions on tools to help educators personalize instruction, the science of reading, multi-classroom leader & principal strategies for team leadership and leading schoolwide change, and effective advocacy within schools and districts. On the Opportunity Culture blog, we […]
Thought Leadership Forum Brief: Talent Development and Opportunity Culture
Center on School Turnaround, July 2018
This brief summarizes the information presented in the March and April 2018 forums, which addressed Opportunity Culture as a strategy to support talent development. The March presentation was by Bryan Hassel, Co-President of Public Impact. The April forum featured Denise Watts, who leads Project LIFT, a philanthropic initiative that is implementing an Opportunity Culture program in North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Turnarounds with New Leaders and Staff
This 2005 report launched Public Impact’s research on the cross-sector evidence about what makes turnarounds successful.
Coaching and Developing Turnaround Leader Actions: A Professional Learning Module
This professional learning module provides state and district leaders with tools to coach and develop school turnaround leaders to take key leader actions.
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.
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.
Turnaround Leader Actions and Competencies
Turnaround principal actions and competencies are the leading indicators for turnaround principal success.
Lacking Leaders: The Challenges of Principal Recruitment, Selection, and Placement
Report takes an in-depth look at principal hiring practices in five urban districts.
Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds: Lessons and Opportunities
Report explores how organizations in other sectors import leaders to inform efforts by state and local leaders to import talent for failing schools.