The Work We Do - School Redesign and Turnaround Plans
ECA and the Warren Institute's Turnaround Plans help our client schools address, as rapidly as possible, challenges so that real, deep shifts in learning and behavior happen.
ECA vision is for the children to achieve not only academic and social targets, but also their unique intellectual and emotional potential that will contribute to productive and fulfilling lives. Turnaround plans are developed in order to bridge the gap between underperforming students and their counterparts while enabling all children at the underperforming school to learn, to develop, to thrive and to lead productive lives.
Typically, ECA develops school redesign and turnaround plans for underperforming schools with large number of students in poverty. ECA navigates a process to achieve this vision given the real challenges associated with being low-income and poor, having limited English proficiency and special needs. ECA is committed to building upon the structural achievements already achieved at schools into a cohesive, sustainable plan.
ECA's redesign priorities and strategies, informed by the different data, and supported by a clear educational theory result in a new culture of excellence and new instructional systems to raise student achievement. The Redesign and Turnaround plans, by providing a useful roadmap to change, are designed to unleash the quality of staff, the potential of children, and strength of families.
ECA will lead your school redesign teams in collecting and analyzing a wide range of data to define critical issues. ECA will help staff to articulating priority areas and specific activities associated with each. For example, one client school's priorities were to improve and increase instruction through use of the RTI model and increased professional development, to use formative and summative data to drive instruction, to improve the social/emotional/physical health of the students and to enhance home/school/community partnerships.
Finally, ECA accelerates change by introducing innovative change models. Central to ECA's change model is the notion that what happens in the classroom is dependent on a number of factors associated with the teacher, classroom and the students and that all three need to be addressed to produce both rapid and long-lasting change.
Click here for a sample ECA/Warren Institute School Redesign and Turnaround Plan's Theory of Change
