Effective Steps Toward School Enhancement

Turning Around High Needs Schools

Joyce M. Alexander, Beverly J. Irby, Matthew J. Etchells, Linda Rodriguez

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9798887308654
  9798887308661
• eBook ISBN:
  9781837085835
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

Effective Steps Toward School Enhancement: Turning Around High Needs Schools is an essential guide for enhancing, improving, and turning around schools. This is a must-have book for campus leaders and district administrators, as well as policymakers and university professors who teach in educational leadership and who wish to partner with schools to impact underperforming schools effectively and positively. The information presented is based on research from randomized control trials and quasi-experimental studies. The focus is on 13 proven and practical strategies and real-world examples for creating positive change in schools. This book is a roadmap for leaders to turn struggling schools into cohesive, thriving, inclusive school communities. This book celebrates the successes of leaders in schools who have navigated this journey of transformation while working closely within a school-university partnership to develop a groundswell of enduring change for their students, teachers, staff, and community.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface: Understanding Context: Moving From School Turnaround to School Enhancement
• PART I: A ROLE FOR DISTRICTS AND SUPPORTING PARTNERS
• 1. School–University Partnership
• 2. District Assistance and Area Superintendents
• 3. A Supportive District Curriculum Team
• PART II: THE PRINCIPAL AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TEAM
• 4. A Personal Coach to the Principal
• 5. Engage in an External Root Cause Analysis
• 6. Building a Team with Unity of Purpose and Changing Mindsets
• 7. Unobtrusive Observations of the Leadership Team
• PART III: A FOCUS ON BUILDING INSTRUCTIONAL CAPACITY
• 8. Real-Time Feedback to Build Instructional Capacity
• 9. Professional Learning Communities
• 10. A Focus on Data Analysis and Continuous Improvement
• 11. The Instructional Skills Specialist Role
• 12. Academic Interventionists to Work With Struggling Learners
• 13. Conclusion: The TAMU SEF Framework
• About the Authors