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Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement

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A Center on School Turnaround framework that organizes practices for state, district, and school leaders pursuing rapid school improvement.

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  • Four Domains framework organizes rapid school improvement into four domains of three practices each: The Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement is a systems framework created by WestEd's Center for School Turnaround and Improvement that, per the guide, was built "to outline the critical practices of successful school turnaround in the domains that research and experience suggest are critical to rapid and significant improvement." The framework names four domains — Turnaround Leadership, Talent Development, Instructional Transformation, and Culture Shift — each with three practices (12 practices total), and this guide supplies LEA-level strategies, desired future states, and reflection questions for each practice. (The Center for School Turnaround et al. (2025))

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  • REL Mid-Atlantic administered by Mathematica Policy Research. (2019). Competencies and Strategies of Effective School Turnaround Leaders (Infographic). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/competencies-and-strategies-of-effective-school-turnaround-leaders-infographic
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