SEAs can use turnaround competencies and BEIs across selection, mentor matching, supervisor coaching, and leader pipelines¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief reports several state uses of turnaround leadership competencies — training entire school leadership teams, competency-aligned professional development, and exploring a micro-credential — and Robinson recommends that states develop policies encouraging competency use for turnaround leader selection and development, support principal supervisors to coach turnaround principals using competencies as guideposts, build pipelines of turnaround leaders in advisory roles, and disseminate resources for using BEIs to identify mentors and match leaders with mentors.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Collaboration with identified turnaround leaders to develop and disseminate BEI resources for districts and schools

Constraints¶

• The recommendations are addressed to state education agencies developing and sustaining turnaround leaders

Target Learners¶

• State education agency staff, principal supervisors, and district leaders

Target Learning Goals¶

• Recruiting, retaining, and developing turnaround education leaders

Related Strategies¶

• Districts should map virtual-learning and equity actions onto the seven domains of a comprehensive, aligned principal pipeline
• State education agencies can support rural turnaround staffing and professional development through recruitment supports, shared PD, and technology assistance
• Use district-preparation program partnerships to create pathways identifying high quality educators for district leadership positions
• Phased LEA and SEA recommendations for adopting Opportunity Culture staffing redesign

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Center on School Turnaround at WestEd. (2018). Thought Leadership Forum Brief: Turnaround Leadership and Leadership Competencies. San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED592985