Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

• Schedule opportunities for teachers to work
collaboratively in PLCs for a block of 90
minutes (outside of regular planning time).
• Determine and select appropriate turnaround
model based upon the menu of interventions
and supports as supplied in OK’s NCLB
Waiver.(Attachment 12)
Identify and place principals with quantifiable
student achievement gains and the desire to work in
a turnaround school into turnaround sites
• Utilize a research-based rubric (see Gallup
and other expert rubrics) for identifying
turnaround school principals to identify best
match for turnaround schools
School schedules
List of priority
schools and selected
interventions and/ or
supports
Rubric scores of
principals at all schools
and at turnaround
schools
Associate Supts
• Recruit principals who have had
demonstrable success in turnaround schools
# of highly effective
principals
• Provide differentiated reward (pay/learning
opportunities/decision-making) for highly
effective principals who commit to
turnaround schools for a three year time
period
Recruit and place highly effective teachers into
school turnarounds to fill leadership team roles
• Design leadership teams in turnaround
schools to address school needs
• Provide professional learning opportunities
for turnaround leadership teams
• Provide pay differential for serving on
leadership team
Provide professional learning opportunities on
turnaround strategies for staff
• Develop differentiated learning
opportunities through key partners in the
city and through Gates Foundation
connections
Amount of
pay/opportunities per
principal at turnaround
vs pay/opportunities at
all schools
Leadership Team
descriptions
Program evaluation
results
Cost of team
development and
differential
# of opportunities;
participant response;
student achievement
gains
HC
C&I
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