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Immediate Attention
School Turnaround > Quick Wins > See How It Works
Listen to the principal of a successful inner-city school describe the quick changes made to their main office. She and her staff made tough decisions about what needed immediate attention, quickly...
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A District Strategy to Improve Nine Struggling Schools
School Turnaround > Committed Staff > See How It Works
A district leader discusses the district's rationale and process for reconstitution. The district reconstituted nine low-performing schools. All teachers had to reapply for their positions and new...
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Starting Over With New Staffing
School Turnaround > Committed Staff > See How It Works
Hear a turnaround school's principal describe her approach to hiring new teaching staff prior to reopening. Her vision for the school is based on identifying and hiring teachers with the desired...
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Building a Sense of Community
School Turnaround > Committed Staff > See How It Works
An elementary school principal talks about how she built a sense of community among school staff. She discusses how she motivated the staff to wholeheartedly work towards school...
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High School Literacy Intervention
Adolescent Literacy > Intensive Intervention > See How It Works
Hear Judith Hamilton explain how one high school uses a schoolwide, data-driven process to identify reading needs and plan tiered classroom and supplemental interventions, and the role of reading...
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High School Academic Literacy Intervention Class
Adolescent Literacy > Intensive Intervention > See How It Works
Morgan Hallabrin describes the approach of her intervention class, including modeling comprehension, vocabulary strategies, and student goal-setting. View two related sample materials, ACCESS Class...
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Safety Nets for Struggling Readers in High School
Adolescent Literacy > Intensive Intervention > See How It Works
A principal and reading specialist describe a comprehensive approach for identifying student needs and providing interventions, such as reading skills classes focused on decoding. Related...
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Benchmark Assessment and Data-Sharing
Adolescent Literacy > Intensive Intervention > See How It Works
Faith Giddens, curriculum planner and testing coordinator, describes how school staff collaborates to design interventions based on assessment results, team reviews of student work, and data-driven...
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Student-Driven Discussions in Social Studies
Adolescent Literacy > Text Discussion > See How It Works
Listen to a teacher talk about how she scaffolds text discussion using pair-share, small group discussion, and large group share-out activities. Hear her description of the gradual release of...
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A Literacy Framework for Teacher Development
Adolescent Literacy > Comprehension Strategies > See How It Works
Listen to the coordinators of literacy activities in Washtenaw and Livingston Counties describe how they implemented a literacy framework and professional learning community, which included Saline...
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Mark It Up! Scaffolding Text Discussion
Adolescent Literacy > Text Discussion > See How It Works
Kelly O'Brien scaffolds text discussion by modeling strategies for thinking about text, helps students make connections, and provides guidelines for organizing reading for meaning. View the related...
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Literature Circles in High School
Adolescent Literacy > Text Discussion > See How It Works
Ninth-grade Humanities teacher Rebecca Wieder describes how she facilitates literature circle discussions. Wieder's students discuss a novel in groups where each plays a role: summarizer,...
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