Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-1-4758-0726-4 • Hardback • August 2014 • $107.00 • (£82.00)
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Daniel L. Duke is a leading authority on the school turnaround process. In addition to conducting extensive research into the most effective strategies for improving low-performing schools, Duke has worked with more than 150 school systems and state agencies on the development of school improvement plans and turnaround leaders. He is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Virginia.
Pamela D. Tucker is a former special education teacher and school administrator who now is Professor of Educational Leadership and Program Director of the Educational Leadership Program at the University of Virginia. Tucker has written extensively on teacher evaluation and the school turnaround process.
Michael J. Salmonowicz has spent a decade studying school turnaround at the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago. A former public school teacher and administrator, he taught in Chicago’s first turnaround high school.
Preface
Chapter 1: It Takes a Faculty to Turn around a School
Chapter 2: School Turnaround Is Not a Myth
Chapter 3: Why Are Some Schools Less Successful Than Other Schools?
Chapter 4: Inquiring into the Health of Your School
Chapter 5: Taking Stock: The First Step in the Planning Process
Chapter 6: Thinking Strategically about Turnaround Strategies
Chapter 7: The First Year of the School Turnaround Process
Chapter 8: Turning around a School with a New Faculty
Chapter 9: Keys to Sustaining a Successful School Turnaround
Chapter 10: Those Who Can, Teach; Those Who Can Teach, Change
Chapter 11: Turnaround Resources
Appendix A: Need for Change Assessment
Appendix B: Conditions Associated with Low Performance in Schools
Appendix C: Student Assessment of Learning Environment (SALE) Grades 3–12
Appendix D: First Steps: A Diagnostic Tool for School Turnaround Specialists
Appendix E: What Works and What Doesn’t Work with School Turnarounds?
Appendix F: Turnaround Tips Organized by Chapter
Appendix G: Turnaround Traps Organized by Chapter
About the Authors
School improvement is hard work, particularly in challenging contexts, and there are no silver-bullets or shortcuts. Written especially for teachers engaged in this vital work, and based on their extensive on-the-ground work in such schools, the authors provide a framework and lessons that are powerful, practical, and process-focused that can help guide you through the unique challenges of turning around your school. Anyone with a genuine interest in bringing about substantial improvement in their school should devour the clear and highly accessible insights offered in this book.
— Scott C. Bauer, associate professor of education leadership, and director, Division of Individual & Organizational Transformation, Geroge Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Is your faculty faced with the challenge of improving results for your students? Teacher's Guide to School Turnarounds is a sensible guide for school leaders and teachers that points you toward the questions that need to be asked before setting out on the journey of school improvement. It offers strategic options and useful tools you can employ to bring about meaningful change. Accessible and insightful, this book provides a practical means of leveraging the collective wisdom that exists in your school and its community to create a better future for your students.
— Philip Hallinger, Thailand Sustainable Development Foundation chair professor of leadership, College of Management, Mahidol University, Thailand
Even if not leading a turnaround, this book will enable school leaders to better diagnose school performance and give focus to their improvement efforts. In particular, the follow-up activities will help administrators to problem solve and fine tune current school initiatives.
— Dr. Jeffrey D. Carroll, Principal, Warhill High School (Williamsburg, VA)