From Start-Up to High-Performing Network: Using Instructional Coaching to Improve Consistency, Capacity, and Performance

The Tennessee Achievement School District (ASD) was created in 2011 to rapidly turn around the lowest performing schools in the state by authorizing high performing charter management organizations to operate the schools. A lack of enough quality applicants, however, led the district to directly run...

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Published inAERA Online Paper Repository
Main Author Malone, Matthew R
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published AERA Online Paper Repository 27.04.2017
Subjects
Administrator Attitudes
Alignment (Education)
Capacity Building
Central Office Administrators
Centralization
Charter Schools
Coaching (Performance)
Communities of Practice
Educational Environment
Elementary Schools
Epistemology
Facilitators (Individuals)
High Achievement
Institutional Mission
Middle Schools
Neighborhoods
Networks
Organizations (Groups)
School Administration
School Community Relationship
School Districts
School Turnaround
Shared Resources and Services
Teacher Effectiveness
Tennessee (Memphis)
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Summary:The Tennessee Achievement School District (ASD) was created in 2011 to rapidly turn around the lowest performing schools in the state by authorizing high performing charter management organizations to operate the schools. A lack of enough quality applicants, however, led the district to directly run a group of schools. This research investigates the efforts of the ASD's direct-run schools to become a high performing network by focusing on how an instructional coaching program contributed to efforts to both align and improve instructional capacity. The ability of new networks of schools to develop the capability of the few high performing networks will significantly influence whether the ASD and districts like it across the country will succeed in large-scale turnaround efforts.