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Principal Planning Tools
The tools below are designed to help principals achieve strong student growth and teacher satisfaction schoolwide. They include tools for Turnaround settings, Opportunity Culture schools, and other schools with teacher-leaders and similar, advanced teaching roles.
Planning
Goal Setting Worksheet: This tool helps you identify goals and methods to achieve a successful, sustainable turnaround, including early wins to gain momentum and support for change. It is preloaded with options for Opportunity Culture schools and other turnarounds including teacher-leaders.
Priority Dashboard: This excel document helps identify and track high-priority goals. It is pre-loaded with goals and measures for Opportunity Culture schools and other turnarounds including teacher-leaders.
- Turnaround Version
- All Schools Version (coming soon)
School Turnaround Plan: This document provides a place for principals to include key materials to describe the school turnaround plan, including new teacher-leader staffing models.
- Turnaround Version
- All Schools Version
Implementing, Monitoring, Improving
Priority Dashboard: This excel document helps identify and track high-priority goals. It is pre-loaded with measures to monitor in Opportunity Culture schools and other turnarounds including teacher-leaders.
- Turnaround Version
- All Schools Version (coming soon)
Action Planner for Principals in Opportunity Culture Schools: This tool assists principals in identifying actions to launch and sustain change in schools with large numbers of disadvantaged students and/or a history of low learning outcomes, and incorporates the leader actions found in successful turnarounds in schools and other fields.
Standing Agenda: Provides agendas for meetings with principals and teaching team leaders to lead instructional excellence schoolwide.
Teacher and Teacher-Leader Planning Tools
More Resources
Leading Indicators of School Turnarounds: How to Know When Dramatic Change is on Track. In school turnarounds, leading indicators can provide early evidence about whether a school is on track – and if not, how to intervene to increase the odds of success. In this report, we summarize the research and experience from other settings in which leaders have long relied on leading indicators to enhance the likelihood of success. From these lessons, we identify key principles and processes to guide the design and use of leading indicators in education. We also present a starting list of leading indicators and a proposed monitoring timetable for district, state, and other education leaders to use in turnaround schools.
Measuring School Turnaround Success: How can states, districts, and schools measure the success of their turnaround efforts? This report by Public Impact, in partnership with the Center on School Turnaround, offers a national model for defining and measuring turnaround success that can be adapted to fit local contexts, with an approach to measuring academic gains using state data, and recommendations for expanding the approach to include leading indicators and targets based on school priorities for “early wins.”
For more tools and resources for turnaround schools, see Public Impact’s school turnaround pages.
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