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Classroom discussion during a Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education Leadership Program.
District teams prepare to report out from a Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education Leadership workshop
Curry School of Education Professor Mark Hampton leads a strategic planning workshop during the UVA School Turnaround Specialist Program.
A School Turnaround Team discusses the design of their action plan during the University of Virginia School Turnaround Specialist Program.
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The Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education (PLE) is a joint venture of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and the Curry School of Education.
The Darden/Curry Partnership’s University of Virginia School Turnaround Specialist Program is the most established school turnaround program in the country and the only school turnaround program in existence that utilizes a systemic approach to change by working with schools, districts and states to build internal capacity. In 2008, the UVA School Turnaround Specialist Program was selected as a national finalist for the Pioneer Institute’s Better Government Competition.
The Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education has received national attention by collaborating with some 82 school districts in 12 states.
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No Time to Lose: Turnaround Leader Performance AssessmentThe brief presents the rationale supporting aggressive turnaround leader assessment efforts and outlines seven critical actions steps to increase the success rate of turnaround schools.
Importing Leaders for School TurnaroundsIn this report, Public Impact explores lessons about when and how organizations in non-education sectors import leadership, including what it takes to tempt people away and how firms help make leaders successful in a new setting. The authors then consider likely challenges and critical next steps for applying those lessons to importing leaders for turnarounds of chronically failing schools.
Using Competencies to Improve School Turnaround Principal SuccessUsing competencies that predict performance can improve school turnaround principal selection, evaluation, and development. Leading Indicators of School Turnarounds: How to Know When Dramatic Change Is On TrackKey principles and processes to guide the design and use of leading indicators in education
Turnaround Necessities Based on the Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education's work in 43 school districts, William S. Robinson and Leann M. Buntrock identify the basic conditions for a school turnaround to be effective, sustainable and scalable.