Learning4Today’s Academic School Turnaround Program (AST) is a leadership development initiative that provides data driven strategies and academic focus to effectively respond to key unanswered challenges: defining the essential elements of leadership, greatly improving the training of principals and teachers, and providing leaders with the policies, incentives and job conditions they need to raise student achievement on a wide scale. AST is designed specifically for schools and districts where urgent intervention and academic turnaround is needed.

Our team of turnaround specialist provides school organizations with a wealth of experience and support that allows principals to have a feeling of confidence that the school leadership team will be empowered to create and maintain an excellent learning environment for children.

Underperforming schools don't need the temporary fixes and promises of programs that treat the symptoms of school distress and only go part of the way towards effecting lasting solutions.

AST Provides:

Professional Development with Data Analysis and Data Use
Implementation of Effective Classroom Strategies
Training for Leadership Teams
Effective Instructional Strategies
Diagnostic and Formative Assessment Coordination

AST is the one academic turnaround program that is so confident that we can help you turn your school around, we offer this warranty: If the school does not achieve the specified student achievement targets that constitute initial turnaround success, we will refund the full cost to the district.

How are we able to guarantee our results?

Despite years of education reform, improved student learning, especially for the most disadvantaged, there remains an elusive goal of adequate yearly progress (AYP) for many school districts and schools. An often-missing ingredient: a plan for high-quality leadership, which research now shows is second only to instruction among school-based factors in its impact on learning. With our team of experienced turnaround specialists we can break the cycle of underperformance and dramatically improve academic results in persistently low-performing schools. We produce immediate success by inspiring and empowering leaders with the skills, tactics, and focus necessary to dramatically improve academic results.

Learning4Today AST Success Strategies

We partner with our clients to:

Provide a clear plan for instructional leadership and accountability. Define the model for learning: curriculum, scope & sequence, instructional strategy and schedule for learning the core subjects of reading, writing and math.
Create a winning team that can execute the plan — at the leadership level and at the worker level that can accomplish the goals of improved student achievement and meeting AYP targets.
Provide training for principals and all teachers in the Learning4Today AST model for learning, diagnostic and formative assessment process and the use of data to determine remediation strategies.
Create a leadership team of lead teachers, PTA president, principal, media specialist, etc. that will meet regularly to carry out the improvement plan and monitor progress, review dates, data, and deliverables.
Establish a communications plan to ensure that a clear and consistent message of high expectations is received across the school, (all teachers will improve achievement levels for all students) with a focus on quality, effectiveness, efficiency of the key instructional processes.
Conduct regular observations of the teachers to ensure curriculum is being followed, and efficient use of resources and instructional time.

Call us today to discuss meeting your immediate needs. 866-526-2265

What About Data?

Through data analysis, AST provides a “roadmap” for improvement of instruction that ultimately increases individual student achievement.
AST:

Analyzes and Interprets your School’s Data
Provides Data Analysis Training
Uses Data for Effective Instructional Planning

What About Instruction?

AST provides training that ensures every child’s unique learning abilities will be addressed through rigorous and relevant instruction strategies and modeling best practices.

AST will work directly with the principal and the school’s leadership team to assist in the development of:

Instructional Time Lines,
Diagnostic and Formative Assessments and
Integrative instructional strategies.

What About Staff Development?

AST will engage the school’s leadership team in effective professional development focused on use of data for data driven instruction, resource alignment and use of modeling with effective classrooms strategies. We will guide the direction of the school’s staff development so that the results are embedded in the daily work of the school instructional staff.