1. SAM REDDING ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CENTER ON INNOVATIONS IN LEARNING CENTER ON SCHOOL TURNAROUND BUILDING STATE CAPACITY AND PRODUCTIVITY CENTER WWW.ADI.ORG U. S. Department of Education Priorities and Initiatives

2. 2 Priorities 1.Focus on Lowest-Achieving Schools 2.Encourage Innovation 3.Engage External Partners 4.Promote Competition

3. 3 Race to the Top 1.Race to the Top, abbreviated R2T, RTTT or RTT, is a $4.35 billion United States Department of Education contest created to spur innovation and reforms in state and local district K-12 education. It is funded by the ED Recovery Act as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and was announced by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on July 24, 2009. States were awarded points for satisfying certain educational policies, such as performance-based standards (often referred to as an Annual professional performance review) for teachers and principals, complying with nationwide standards, promoting charter schools and privatization of education, and computerization.United States Department of EducationAmerican Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009Barack ObamaArne DuncanAnnual professional performance reviewcharter schoolsprivatization

4. Race to the Top 1.Implementing college- and career-ready standards and assessments, 2.Building robust data systems to improve instruction, 3.Supporting great teachers and school leaders, and 4.Turning around persistently low-performing schools. STEM( Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) $75 million to $700 million per state over 4 years to 19 states $10 million to $40 million per district over 4 years to 16 districts

5. School Improvement Grants

6. 6 ED has awarded nearly $4b of $5b appropriated through FY12 Most FY11 & FY12 funds will be used to fund 2nd & 3rd years of 3-year grants that began in SY 2011-12 Cohort III Awards (16 States) Status of SIG Awards Over 1,300 schools in cohort 1 and 2 implementing SIG model (Tier I/II) Over 45% of Tier I/II schools in cohort 1 are high schools Transformations make up 74% of Tier I/II and 95% of rural Tier I/II Description of SIG Schools Implementation challenges (ILT and principal/teacher eval), because of insufficient capacity, will, or both Most common monitoring findings: award process and ILT Role of external providers Quality of State SIG Implementation Providing unprecedented investment in turning around lowest- performing schools Targeting drop-out factories and providing districts flexibility to tailor interventions Changing relationship between SEAS and LEAs, but some wasting opportunity Resulting in dramatic, double- digit gains for many schools in first year SIG Story Line Status of School Improvement Efforts

7. SIG Models 1.Transformation: Replace principal, Keep most staff, Dramatically change culture and practice 2.Turnaround: Kids Stay, (Most) Adults Go 3.Re-start: Replace staff and leadership and reopen as Charter School or contract to EMO 4.Close the school—send students to better schools

8. Investment in Innovation (I3) Grants $650 million in grants to LEAs, Non-Profits, Consortia of Schools “First, we're looking for programs that will be outcome-driven, not input- driven,” Secretary Duncan stated. “We're looking for ways to boost student achievement, matriculation, and graduation rates--and we expect successful applicants will be able to demonstrate some success in closing achievement gaps, moving students toward proficiency, increasing graduation rates, and retaining high-quality teachers and principals.” Development Grants: Up to $5 million total, up to 4 years Validation Grants: Up to $30 million total, up to 4 years Scale Up Grants: Up to $50 million total, up to 4 years Requires a match of 15% or more from non-governmental source