What Contributed to Successful (or Not As Successful) SIG Turnaround Efforts?

Saturday February 7, 2015
8:15 - 9:15 AM
Room 250

School Improvement Grants (SIG) sought to turnaround chronically low-performing schools. Some efforts were successful and others were not as successful. What contributed to these differences in outcomes? The National Center on School Turnaround (CST) and the California Comprehensive Center (CACC), both housed at WestEd, and the American Institutes for Research (AIR), as partners in the CACC, studied the first cohort of California K-8 SIG schools to help understand this complex issue. This presentation will discuss the strategies and approaches of higher and lower performing SIG schools and what may have contributed to their different outcomes. The study provides insight into the implementation of school improvement initiatives, effective practices, and sustainability efforts.

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Presentation

Presenters
Lenay Dunn

Dr. Lenay Dunn is a Senior Research Associate at WestEd where she conducts applied research and provides technical assistance on systemic reform and improvement. She has over a decade of experience studying education reform initiatives and was a lead researcher for her session's study.
Carlas McCauley

Dr. Carlas McCauley leads the national Center on School Turnaround at WestEd—a federally funded center to increase the capacity of state education agencies to support districts and schools in turning around their lowest performing schools. He previously served in leadership roles for the Office of School Turnaround in the U.S. Department of Education and the National Association of State Boards. Dr. McCauley is nationally recognized for his work developing, supporting, and monitoring SIG and other education improvement initiatives.
Lindsay Poland

As a research analyst in the education program at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Ms. Poland has served in key positions on education research and technical assistance projects focusing on school and district improvement, federal policy analysis, dropout prevention, and early warning systems.
theme:
Policy
audience:
146
Topics:
school improvement, effective program development, using data