Turnaround Schools

3 Credits

This course examines the themes in the contemporary use of school turnaround as a strategy for improving chronically underperforming schools. This course consists of seven modules meant to deepen your understanding of the policy context surrounding school turnaround. The seven modules include: (1) the need for school turnaround, (2) best practices in school turnaround, (3) school turnaround leadership, (4) testing the school turnaround theory of action, (5) the human costs of school turnaround, (6) voices from the field, and (7) the effectiveness of school turnaround.