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Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit: Videos

Videos – Closing Panel, Key Takeaways

Education Resource Strategies, October 2011

View videos from ERS’ Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011. Panelists from the ERS Summit share some thoughts on successful turnaround. Panelists on the closing panel talks about the approach to turnaround moving forward, and how this differs from the past.

A major effort is underway in school districts across the country to improve the academic performance of students at the lowest-achieving schools. With this backdrop, Education Resource Strategies held a summit in 2011, Sustaining Turnaround at Scale, that brought together central office leaders and principals from eight districts, as well as attendees from organizations that partner with turnaround schools and influence the conversation about turnaround. These videos show highlights from the summit. Make sure to also check out the summit summaries and posters.

Turnaround Summit – Closing Panel
The closing panel talks about the approach to turnaround heading forward, and how this differs from the past.


Keys to Turnaround video
Panelists from the ERS Summit share some thoughts on successful turnaround.

Summit Participants:

Districts:

  • Boston Public Schools
  • Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
  • Chicago Public Schools
  • Cincinnati Public Schools
  • Denver Public Schools
  • District of Columbia Public Schools
  • Duval County Public Schools
  • Providence Public School Department

Partners:

  • Academy of Urban School Leadership
  • Achievement Network
  • The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
  • The Aspen Institute
  • Blueprint Schools Network
  • Citizen Schools
  • City Connects
  • City Year
  • Corporation for National and Community Service
  • Council of Chief State School Officers
  • The Education Trust
  • Mass Insight Education
  • National Center for Time and Learning
  • New Leaders for New Schools
  • New Schools Venture Fund
  • The New Teacher Project
  • ReNEW
  • Say Yes to Education
  • Strategic Grant Partners
  • TeachPlus
  • Turnaround for Children
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • University of Virginia