Culture Shift

Domain 4

Practice 4A:

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Build a strong community intensely focused on student learning

Celebrate Successes

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Early success promotes an expectation for further success and creates efficacy among those engaged in this work.

It Takes a Village

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Create opportunities for members of the school community to come together to discuss, explore, and reflect on student learning.

Collective Responsibility

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Champion high expectations and reinforce them through shared accountability and follow-through on strategies for dramatically improving student outcomes.

Practice 4B:

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Solicit and act upon stakeholder input

Perception vs. Reality

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Collective perceptions about the degree to which their school climate is or is not positive are gathered and used to gauge the work on which the school will focus.

Provide Feedback

Stakeholder perceptions are considered when identifying priorities and improving the underlying conditions that contribute to school climate issues.

State of the School

School Leadership Team annually convenes meetings of school personnel and families to discuss results of the annual climate survey.

Practice 4C:

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Engage students and families in pursuing education goals

Student Goal Setting

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Engaging students in setting goals, intentionally builds students’ personal competencies to pursue goals, persist with tasks, appraise their progress, hone learning strategies, and direct their own learning to further enhance their capacity to learn and succeed.

Exploring Student Interests

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Turnaround Schools provide students with opportunities to connect their learning in school with their interests and aspirations.

Parent-Student Conferences

Turnaround Schools help students and their families formulate education goals and understand and use a variety of data sources about student progress and interests.