The Right People, The Right Services, The Right Time

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The Right People, The Right Services, The Right
Time
Robert Glascock Executive Director Maryland State
Department of Education Edward Ryans Ed.D
Turnaround Director Prince Georges County Public
Schools
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• 2014
• AYP
• 5000

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A Brief History

• A Different Way To Identify Schools
• Differentiated Accountability
• OLD Number of Years
• NEW Number of Years Extent of Failure
• A Different Way to Support Schools
• Differentiated Support
• OLD Number of Years
• NEW Customized Strategic

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Four Purposes

• STREAMLINE and differentiate the services
  supports provided to chronically underperforming
  schools
• DETERMINE CAPACITY of districts and schools to
  improve
• PARTNER with districts to build a customized
  strategy for improvement (using capacity
  assessment)
• SPEARHEAD identification of policies, conditions,
  partnerships and supports that will enable
  districts and schools to breakthrough

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Integration of Support at the State
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System of Support State-District-School
Engagement
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Supporting Successful School Leaders on the
Journey Toward Breakthrough Improvement
Instructional Improvement
Leadership Development
Student Support Services
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Concept Source Mass Insights The Turnaround
Challenge
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School Turnaround

• The research on turning around persistently
  low-performing high poverty schools increasingly
  indicates that dramatic transformational action
  not school improvement planning is required to
  turn a school to a high-performing, high-poverty
  school in an urgent time frame.

Source Mass Insights The Turnaround Challenge
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• School turnaround is about developing systemic
  processes, school leaders and teachers to sustain
  progress over time.

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School Turnaround Framework for Excellence
Source Mass Insights The Turnaround Challenge
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Framework for Excellence
Source Mass Insights The Turnaround Challenge
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Framework for Excellence
Source Mass Insights The Turnaround Challenge
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Framework for Excellence
Source Mass Insights The Turnaround Challenge
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Lessons LearnedManagement

• Build-in planning time for community engagement
  and creating a new school culture.
• Prepare to meet student needs that are severe and
  pervasive.
• Turnaround teachers need strong classroom
  management and teamwork skills.

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Lessons LearnedCurriculum and Instruction

• Build-in support for teachers to improve their
  ability to meet the needs of the students in
  their classroom.
• Ensure staff have a deep understanding of, and
  adhere to, county and state curriculum.
• Provide professional development for teachers,
  that is embedded in their day, and increases
  their skills in the classroom.

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Lessons LearnedMotivation

• Build-in support for teachers to improve their
  understanding of the needs of the students in
  their classroom.

• Ensure students have a caring adult who knows
  curriculum, understands goal setting, monitors
  progress, and meets regularly to advise and
  encourage.
• Provide professional development for teachers,
  that is embedded in their day, and increases
  their skills in meeting the needs of the students
  in the classroom.

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• Creating Opportunities to Learn
• -Dr. Wade Boykin