The turnaround toolkit : managing rapid, sustainable school improvement / Lynn Winters, Joan Herman ; foreword by Carl A. Cohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winters, Lynn, author.

Herman, Joan L., author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs.

School support teams.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<b><i>The TurnAround Toolkit</i></b> outlines a formative evaluation program for enhancing school and student achievement. Included are pocket summaries for each chapter and an online ""toolkit.""

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Publisher's Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I - The 3 R's of Turnaround Work: Realign, Redesign, Refine""; ""Section I - Realign: Create the Structures for Turnaround Work""; ""Chapter 1 - Develop Systems for Managing Turnaround Activities: Distributed Leadership, Collaborative Teams, Expert Reviewers and Networks, Data Capacity""; ""Chapter 2 - Organize Information Needed to Redesign Programs""; ""Chapter 3 - Prepare Data Summaries and Displays""; ""Section II - Redesign: Use Data to Create the Turnaround Plan""

""Chapter 4 - Identify the Turnaround Focus""""Chapter 5 - Redesign Programs to Address the Turnaround Focus""; ""Chapter 6 - Develop and Implement the Turnaround Plan""; ""Section III - Refine: Evaluate and Revise the Turnaround Plan""; ""Chapter 7 - Design an Evaluation of the Turnaround Plan""; ""Chapter 8 - Analyze Evaluation Data and Revise the Program""; ""Chapter 9 - The 4th R of Turnaround Work: Reflect on Lessons Learned""; ""Part II - Leader's Guides for The TurnAround ToolKit""; ""Introduction to Leader's Guides""

""Chapter 1 - Develop Systems for Managing Turnaround Activities: Distributed Leadership, Collaborative Teams, Expert Reviewers and Networks, Data Capacity""""Chapter 2 - Organize Information Needed to Redesign Programs""; ""Chapter 3 - Prepare Data Summaries and Displays""; ""Chapter 4 - Identify the Turnaround Focus""; ""Chapter 5 - Redesign Programs to Address the Turnaround Focus""; ""Chapter 6 - Develop and Implement the Turnaround Plan""; ""Chapter 7 - Design an Evaluation of the Turnaround Plan""; ""Chapter 8 - Analyze Evaluation Data and Revise the Program""; ""Endnotes""

""Resources and References""""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes biliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781452239347

1452239347

9781452223629

1452223629

OCLC:

865544876