Teachers' Guide to School Turnarounds

Daniel L. Duke has been a high school teacher, school administrator, staff development director, researcher, and consultant. He is currently a professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.Pamela D. Tucker is a former special education teacher and school administrator and currently is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the University of Virginia.Michael J. Salmonowicz is a doctoral student in administration and supervision at the University of Virginia. As a Teach for America corps member, he taught high school English in Chicago Public Schools from 2001 to 2003.Melissa K. Levy is a doctoral student in social foundations at the University of Virginia. She previously served as a middle school band director.Stephen Saunders is a veteran high school foreign language teacher and award-winning soccer coach. Currently he is completing his doctoral degree in educational leadership at the University of Virginia.

In this volume, professor Duke and his associates describe how the most needful schools can initiate and maintain the winning streaks needed to enhance the confidence and efficacy of both faculty and students, resulting in enhanced achievement...In short, turnaround schools...come to believe in themselves in this sense. Both struggling schools and struggling learners can find that sense of self-efficacy only if they have the opportunity to experience success at some level. The [authors] provide a roadmap to that success.

• Chapter 1 It Takes a Faculty to Turn around a SchoolChapter 2 School Turnaround Is Not a MythChapter 3 Why Are Some Schools Less Successful Than Other Schools?Chapter 4 Inquiring into the Health of Your SchoolChapter 5 Planning: The First Step to Better School PerformanceChapter 6 The First Year of the School Turnaround ProcessChapter 7 Keys to Sustaining a Successful School TurnaroundChapter 8 Those Who Can, Teach; Those Who Can Teach, ChangeChapter 9 Turnaround Resources