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Turning Around America’s Failing Schools:

Bold Opportunities for Education Funders

January 14, 2010

Web seminar presented by:

Grantmakers for Education



John Branam

GFE Director of Programs

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Upcoming GFE events

Innovation Member Briefing (April 8-9, 2010)

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Upcoming GFE events

Innovation Member Briefing (April 8-9)

College Success Member Briefing (May 20-21)

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College Success Member Briefing (May 2010)ELL Web seminar (April 2010) & ELL Member Briefing (June 22-23)

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Upcoming GFE events


College Success Member Briefing (May 2010)ELL Web seminar (April 2010) & ELL Member Briefing (June 22-23)

Annual conference (October 26-29)

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Cristina de Jesus

Brian Sims

Jordan Meranus

Scott Gordon



Jordan Meranus

NewSchools Venture Fund

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TURNING A ROUND F AILING SCHOOLS


January 14, 2009



NewSchools Venture Fund Context

Mission: To transform public education through powerful ideas and passionate

entrepreneurs so that all children – especially those in underserved communities – have the opportunity to succeed

Model:

Investing in early-stage entrepreneurial organizations – both for-profit andnonprofit – and providing them with board-level management assistance

Connecting these entrepreneurs:

– With one another, which strengthens their work

– With the wider field of education reform, which accelerates systems change

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TheNewSchools

Network

Investments



The School Turnaround Need is Tremendous

Nationally: Over 5,000 schools, or 5% of the total, are now in“Restructuring” under NCLB by 2009-2010.

In 2010 the number of schools in restructuring increased by 28% from 2009,and an alarming 118% from 2008.

In large urban areas, failing schools comprise up to 22% of the total

Chicago Los Angeles NYC Washington,

DC

Philadelphia

20% 18% 12% 15% 20%

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School Turnaround: What are We Aiming At?

Working Definition of School Turnaround

– Takes place in schools that fail to make AYP for multiple consecutive years(high schools that graduate fewer than 60% students)

– Requires the autonomy to make fundamental changes in people, culture,operations, and program – all at once

– Leads to rapid achievement growth for existing and incoming students

Four Models for School Transformation

– Turnaround

– Restart

– School Closure

– Transformation

What is Success

– Closing the achievement gap: students in a turnaround school perform as wellor better than the average performance of more affluent districts in a state.

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Vision: An Emerging Market

NascentMarketplace

Growing Marketplace

MatureMarketplace

Current Turnaround

SMO Marketplace

Current CMO

Marketplace

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Three Leading Edge Organizations

Partial ControlNo Control Full Control

Program SchoolLeadership

Time(Longer day/

resources)

Faculty(Hire, fire,

compensate)

AUSL

Green Dot

Mastery

Degree of Control/Authority to Act

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Speakers

Speaker Affiliation

Cristina De Jesus Chief Academic OfficerGreen Dot Public Schoolshttp://www.greendot.org/

Scott Gordon Chief Executive OfficerMastery Charter Schoolshttp://www.masterycharter.org/

Brian Sims Managing Director of High Schools Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL)http://www.ausl-chicago.org/

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Cristina de Jesus

Brian Sims Scott Gordon

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http://www.ausl-chicago.org/index.html



Brian Sims

Academy for UrbanSchool Leadership

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Organizational Name: AUSL

Background

– 14 Schools (6 training academies, 8 turnarounds), 7500 students, 407 teachers – First training academy opened in 2001; first turnaround opened in 2006

– AUSL budget $13M

Model – Urban Teacher Residency (UTR) for teacher pipeline

– Strong partnership with Chicago Public Schools (CPS)

– Autonomy to manage schools as a quasi “district within the district”

– Codification of school turnaround process

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Closing The Achievement Gap: Example

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Performance at AUSL elementary turnaround schools

% of students meeting or exceeding standards

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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

SHERMAN

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Year of AUSLturnaround start

2007

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2009

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Organizational Name: AUSL

Mini-Case Study

– Orr Academy High School

– Pre-turnaround (2008): three small schools; flat scores for decades; Mayor’s adopted school – Post-turnaround (2009): attendance, safety, scholarships, and college-going rates all up; Reading

scores doubled; math and science scores declined

Growth/Next Steps

– Pre-approved for six more turnaround schools for September 2010

– Awarded Department of Education grant to expand UTR and leadership pipeline

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Cristina de Jesus

Green DotPublic Schools



Green Dot Public Schools: Overview

Background

– Founded in 2000 and focused on independent charter high schools until 2008

– Did first school turnaround at Locke High School in the fall of 2008 – 19 public charter schools in Los Angeles serving 8,500 students

Turnaround Model

– The turnaround presented 150 issues that were departures from our single school model

– Used a phase-in by grade model

– Large school was divided into 9 small schools – All teachers and administrators reapplied for jobs

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Green Dot Public Schools: Overview

Locke High School At A Glance: 2007-2008 & 2008-2009 – In 2008-2009, the Locke Cluster completed the academic year with 532 more students than

the previous year. – The attendance rate at Locke rose from 77.8% in 2007-08 to 89.3% in 2008-09.

– In 2008-2009, the number of graduates increased by 43% when compared to the previousyear.

– The API score at Locke increased by 24 points in 2008-2009.

– In 2008-2009, over 85% of parents surveyed felt Locke provided a safe environment, worked well within the community and offered access to a better education than a traditional

public school.

Growth/Next Steps – Look for ways to revise components of our “transition/phase-out” school model for next

turnaround

– Focus more diligently on improving instruction and academic interventions at Locke

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Scott Gordon

Mastery CharterSchools



Closing The Achievement Gap: Example

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Mastery Charter Turnaround Schools

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Mastery Charter Schools

Model

– College expectations – no excuses – Train, supervise, & reward teacher talent performance-based pay

– Data driven management

– Tight, singular school culture

Example: Pickett Campus – Pre-turnaround: 7% proficiency in 7th grade

– 22% special education

– 2 years post turnaround: 54 percentage point increase in math, 49 point increase in reading

Future – Create urgency & eliminate excuses IT CAN BE DONE.

– Change culture of the field modern management applied to education

– Seek 2010 turnaround opportunities in Philadelphia region

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N S h l I i F d S h l T d



NewSchools Innovation Fund: School Turnarounds

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Jordan Meranus

NewSchools Venture Fund

N S h l I ti F d S h l T d



NewSchools Innovation Fund: School Turnarounds

The goal of the NewSchools Innovation Fund (NewSchools Fund IV) is to buildentrepreneurial organizations that together can close the achievement gap for

underserved students through innovative and aligned work in people, tools and schools.

Within that larger context, we are raising a School Turnaround Fund, to focus on a setof investments that turnaround failing schools

Goal of School Turnaround Fund

Build the turnaround marketplace by increasing the supply of turnaround schoolmanagement organizations

Potential Structure

Foundations and donors “buy -in” to the fund at specified amount

Investment decisions below a threshold investment amount made by NewSchoolsteam; decisions above that level taken to “investment strategy group” made up of funders

Investment Strategy Group enables shared learning, collaboration among funders,and decision authority for major investments

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“We need everyone who cares about public education to take on the toughest assignment of all and get in the business of turning around

our lowest-performing schools, which includes states, districts, non-profits, for-profits,universities, unions, and charter

organizations.”

-Secretary Arne Duncan

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Upcoming GFE events


College Success Member Briefing (May 20-21)

ELL Web seminar (April 2010) & ELL Member Briefing (June 22-23)

Annual conference (October 26-29)

For more info go to: www.edfunders.org

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