Title: Why do most education turnaround projects in low performing schools fail? - Quora
Headings: Why do most education turnaround projects in low performing schools fail?
Why do most education turnaround projects in low performing schools fail?
Content: Discernment in a transformational school is based on the understanding that—first and foremost— the quality of instruction will determine the quality of student achievement. Transformational leaders who do not make the improvement of instruction their number one priority will not besuccessful in school transformation. Successful turnaround principals also understand that todiscern is not enough. Nearlyevery principal I work with understands that the quality of instruction influences student achievement. What often are missing are the details about how to influence thequality of instruction. Indeed,knowing that instruction influences achievement is very different from knowing how to influence the quality ofinstruction, and this is what separates a successful principal from asuccessful transformational principal. Basically there are two major ways in which a leader can influence the quality of the instruction in a school. I often refer to them as the “P & P.”
The first “P” refers to the quality of the instructional personnel; the second “P” refers to the key processes that influence the quality of instruction in a building. The ultimate success of a transformational school will be contingent upon implementing the “right processes” with the “right people.”