If your
school is not meeting its AYP goals, you need immediate
and intensive help. You need proven strategies for change
supported by lots of TLC. SFA TurnAround helps schools
develop a culture of high expectations and continuous
improvement with extensive professional development
on powerful instructional strategies, proven materials
adapted to your state standards, and assistance from
experienced educators who have helped many schools like
yours meet their goals.
Powerful instructional
strategies. To get the achievement gains needed,
teachers and students need to work smarter rather than
harder. Using instructional strategies and materials
from research-proven Success for All reading programs,
SFA TurnAround enables teachers to:
- increase student engagement and
motivation,
- make adaptations to lessons to
meet all learners’ needs, and
- make the most of classroom time.
 Daily
lesson plans built around your reading program provide
step-by-step support for implementation of powerful
instructional strategies such as cooperative learning
and active teaching techniques that engage students.
Initial training jumpstarts the process,
but change occurs over time. In SFA TurnAround, teachers
meet in small teacher learning communities every two
weeks to help each other continuously strengthen their
instruction under the guidance of their building facilitator
and our experienced coaches. Teachers and coaches model
for each other and provide feedback directed toward
growth.
Classroom management.
Focusing all energy on learning builds the rate of achievement.
In SFA TurnAround, a school-wide approach to building
cooperative learning and conflict resolution engages
children in learning and keeps disruptions to a minimum.
Initial training and ongoing discussion and feedback
among teachers and with SFAF coaches create powerful
opportunities for growth.
Focus on leadership.
Good leadership ensures that everyone’s energy
is going in the same direction—to increase student
achievement. The SFA TurnAround Leadership Academy helps
school leaders establish a culture of continuous improvement
to move achievement ahead quickly.
Frequent assessment.
Rapid progress comes when instruction is guided by student
achievement data. In SFA TurnAround, quarterly school-wide
assessments are used to closely monitor the rate of
achievement growth, and are used to celebrate individual
student progress. In the classroom, informal progress
monitoring tools help teachers observe reading strategy
development on a day-to-day basis.
Effective grouping practices
to differentiate instruction.
In SFA TurnAround, grouping by reading level across
grade and class lines for reading classes ensures that
every minute of reading instruction is at the right
level for every student, so that students make rapid
progress.
Tutoring for struggling
students. Tutoring is the most effective tool
known for increasing achievement. In SFA TurnAround,
tutors are equipped with Alphie’s Alley, a research-proven
computer-based program that helps them deliver an individualized
program for each student.
Positive connections with
parents. SFA TurnAround provides access to the
wealth of strategies developed by teachers in our network
of 1300 schools. Engage parents with Second Cup of Coffee
meetings, Raising Readers parent workshops, Money-in-the-Bank
celebrations, and more.
School planning and intervention
team. Schools are faced with innumerable demands.
SFA TurnAround guides you in developing a school planning
and intervention team to set targets, celebrate progress,
and solve problems.
Do you want to learn more about SFA TurnAround? Please
call and talk to one of our staff members at 1-800-548-4998,
ext.2372, or fill out the information
request form online.
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