Sustaining Turnaround at the School and District Levels: The High Reliability Schools Project at Sandfields Secondary School
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Beginning from 1 high-poverty, historically low-achieving secondary school's successful turnaround work, this article provides data relative to a successful school turnaround, the importance of external and system-level supports, and the importance of building for sustainable institutionalization of improvements. The evidence suggests the importance of creating a more nearly high-reliability set of reform supports at the school and district levels.
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Data use is identified as a common core characteristic of high-performing schools.
“Data use is, for example, identified as a common core characteristic of high-performing schools (Duke, 2015;Ragland, Clubine, Constable, & Smith, 2002;Schaffer, Reynolds, & Stringfield, 2012;Snipes, Doolittle, & Herlihy, 2002).”
From Data teams for school improvement (2016) · cites this paper as Schaffer, Reynolds, & Stringfield, 2012
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- Authors
- Schaffer, E., Reynolds, D., & Stringfield, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (US)
- University of Southampton (GB)
- University of Louisville (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schaffer, Eugene
- ORCID
- Reynolds, David
- Venue
- Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR)
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-01
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 108-127
- ISSN
- 1082-4669 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7671
- OpenAlex
- W1989874208
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 6.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR) (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Leadership and Practices
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Keywords
- school turnaround, high-poverty schools, low-performing schools, secondary schools, external support
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