Guiding Principles for Improving the Lowest-Performing Schools in Tennessee

This brief explores state-led efforts to turn around low-performing schools. Distilling research on school reform from the past several years, we compile a set of guiding principles for state efforts to improve low-performing schools. These guiding principles constitute a coherent and interconnected approach to reform, all of which are necessary to improve Tennessee’s low-performing schools.

Published:
December 2018

Authors:
Gary T. Henry
Lam Pham
J. Edward Guthrie
Erica Harbatkin

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Guiding Principles

Establish a dedicated organizational infrastructure.

Identify and address barriers to improvement.

Increase instructional capacity.

Increase leadership capacity.

Implement processes and practices to maintain stability.

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Gary T. Henry

Gary T. Henry is dean of the University of Delaware's College of Education and Human Development and professor in the School of Education and the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration

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Lam Pham

Lam D. Pham is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development at North Carolina State University

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J. Edward Guthrie

J. Edward Guthrie is a Research Associate at the Tennessee Education Research Alliance

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