Enduring Myths That Inhibit School Turnaround (hc)

ISBN-13: 9781681238883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 360 str.

Coby V. Meyers;Marlene J. Darwin

Spis treści

• Introduction: Debunking School Turnaround Myths, Coby V. Meyers and Marlene Darwin.
• Section I: How Can The School Turnaround Conversation Be Framed Differently?
• The Failure Fallacy: Examining the Rate of School Turnaround, Craig Hochbein and Abby Mahone.
• Understanding Decline and Failure Is Foundational to Moving Forward, Coby V. Meyers, Craig Hochbein, Mark Smylie, Samuel Stringfield, and Marc Stein.
• Neither Urban Core Nor Rural Fringe: “In-Between” Districts and the Shifting Landscape of School Performance in the United States, David Eddy-Spicer, Erin Anderson, and Frank Perrone.
• Section II: How Are School Turnaround Efforts Structured And Supported Systemically?
• The Myth of the Single Lever Turnaround, Sam Stringfield, Eugene Schaffer, and David Reynolds.
• Everything But the Kitchen Sink: How an Abundance of Concurrent Efforts Thwarts School Improvement, Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Aaron Butler, and Catherine Barbour.
• Reframing Turnaround: From a School Initiative to a System Initiative, Caitlin Scott, Lenay Dunn, and Carlas McCauley.
• Unfinished Business: State Education Agencies and Their Capacity to Lead School Turnaround, Joshua Childs.
• Section III How Are School Turnaround Efforts Structured And Supported Locally?
• Autonomy and Accountability in Turnaround Work: The Myth of Portfolio Districts and Organizational Learning, Laura Groth, Matthew Malone, and Joshua L. Glazer.
• Assessing School Turnarounds: Using an Integrative Framework to Identify Levers for Success, Kirsten Lee Hill, Laura Desimone, Tonya Wolford, and Adrienne Reitano.
• Moving Beyond the Myths of Turnaround to Address the Intersection of Poverty and Urban Schooling, Kecia Hayes, Angela Fulcher, Catherine Hogg, Michael Ramsey, and Danielle Proscia.
• Turning Around From Within: Using Internal Capacity to Improve Low-Performing Schools, Adriana Villavicencio.
• Section IV: Who Can Propel School Turnaround Forward?
• An Enduring Myth: Turnaround Leadership Is Identity Neutral, Jennie M. Weiner and Laura Burton.
• Should They Stay or Should They Go? The Mythical Appeal of Staff Replacement As a Turnaround Strategy, Elizabeth Mann, Rebecca Herman, and Michael Hansen.
• Section V: How Is School Turnaround Conceptualized And/Or Measured?
• Turnaround As Faustian Bargain: The Myth of Virtuous Action, Kimberly Kappler Hewitt and Ulrich Reitzug.
• The Fallacy of School Grades: Exploring the Myth That Public Shaming Leads to School Improvement, Robert Smith and Scott Imig.
• School Turnarounds and the Test of Time, Dallas Hambrick Hitt and Coby V. Meyers.
• Changing the School Turnaround Conversation, Marlene Darwin and Coby V. Meyers.
• About the Editors.