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Understanding and Meeting Staffing Needs
School Turnaround > Committed Staff > Learn What Works
Julie Kowal discusses the importance of building a committed staff and strategies that principals can use to assess staffing needs, reassign, redeploy, and hire staff.
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Expert Interview
Differences Between Successful and Unsuccessful Turnaround Efforts
School Turnaround > Instruction > Learn What Works
Hear Dr. Joseph Johnson describe how a focus on relevant, narrow goals and an emphasis on student learning can make the same instructional practice work better in some schools than others. Dr....
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Expert Interview
The Enacted Curriculum
School Turnaround > Instruction > Learn What Works
Listen to Dr. Joseph Johnson discuss how high-performing schools align curricula to state standards, teach the content with a focus on student learning, and prioritize core content to improve...
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Expert Interview
The Principal's Role
School Turnaround > Instruction > Learn What Works
Listen to Dr. Joseph Johnson discuss how the role of the principal (e.g., being a presence in classrooms, developing teachers' trust in their common goals) is essential for improving instruction....
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Expert Interview
How Principals Can Help
School Turnaround > Instruction > Learn What Works
Dr. Daniel Duke describes effective strategies from the school turnaround and business turnaround literature that principals and teacher teams can use to improve instruction.
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Expert Interview
Supporting and Developing Turnaround Leaders
School Turnaround > Leadership > Learn What Works
Dr. Hassel discusses the challenges encountered by new and continuing school principals and the role of district leadership in supporting principals of turnaround schools.
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Expert Interview
Signaling Change
School Turnaround > Leadership > Learn What Works
Dr. Bryan Hassel describes the importance of strong leadership in turnaround schools and the role that school principals play in signaling the need and direction for change.
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Expert Interview
People, Time, Money, and Programming
School Turnaround > Overview & Tools
Dr. Calkins discusses strategies to facilitate school turnaround. He emphasizes the need to establish a readiness to learn in turnaround schools through effectively managing the schools' use of...
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Expert Interview
Recommendations of the Turnaround Practice Guide
School Turnaround > Overview & Tools
Dr. Rebecca Herman, the chair of the expert panel that produced the Practice Guide, provides an overview of the school turnaround topic and discusses the four recommendations that are described in...
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Expert Interview
Engaging Adolescents in Discussions About Text
Adolescent Literacy > Text Discussion > Learn What Works
Dr. Janice Dole gives an overview of the recommendation to provide opportunities for extended discussion of text meaning and interpretation.
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Expert Interview
Improving Comprehension Through Text Discussion: What Does the Research Say?
Adolescent Literacy > Text Discussion > Learn What Works
Dr. Michael Kamil describs the results of a meta-analysis that reviewed 42 studies examining the effects of text discussion on reading comprehension.
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Expert Interview
Designing Tiered Interventions
Adolescent Literacy > Intensive Intervention > Learn What Works
Listen to Dr. Deshler explain why some adolescents struggle with reading and the need for reliable student assessments and qualified specialists to provide intensive and individualized...
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Expert Interview
