Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Menu of Strategies for Turnaround School Implementation
Tulsa Public Schools
Strategic Moves and Menu of Possible
Implementation Strategic Approaches
Note: Budget implications need to be addressed
Note: This is a menu of researched and effective
practice based approaches to be matched to the
turnaround school needs
Strategic Focus Area; Teacher and Leader
Effectiveness
Recruit and place effective/highly effective teachers
in turnaround schools
• Utilize Gallup scores to identify applicants
new to the district who are a match for
turnaround schools
• Identify teachers with highly effective TLE
scores and high value added scores to
recruit to turnaround schools
• Recruit teachers who have an interest in
serving in turnaround schools
• Seek ways to provide differentiated pay for
teachers who will work additional
planning/student teaching hours
• Redistribute existing mentoring resources to
provide additional support to priority
schools with high numbers of novice
teachers.
Metric
Gallup scores of
applicants new to the
district in turnaround
schools
# of teachers with high
TLE and value-added
scores in pool for
turnaround schools
# of teachers in pool to
serve in turnaround
schools
Amount of
differentiated pay for
teachers in turnaround
schools
Assignment of mentors
to novice teachers
Lead Office
(note: many of
these strategies
are crossfunctional,
but
to show
capacity to
deliver, lead
office is noted)
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