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The Center on School Turnaround (CST) at WestEd provides technical assistance to increase the capacity of state education agencies (SEAs) to support districts in turning around their lowest-performing schools. We work with SEAs, local education agencies (LEAs), and Regional Comprehensive Centers to identify, adopt, and sustain research-based practices and emerging promising practices that ensure equity and drive system change to rapidly improve the lowest-performing schools.

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The Four Domains

The CST developed the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework (PDF) to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvement efforts. The framework shares, in practical language, the critical practices of successful school turnaround in four domains that research and experience suggest are central to rapid and significant improvement: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift. Much of our work is guided by these four domains of school improvement.

Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework

Featured Tools & Publications

The CST has developed a range of resources — including briefs, modules, publications, and tools — focused on research-based practices for school improvement.

Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework

Practice guide Culture Shift Instructional Transformation Talent Development Turnaround Leadership

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Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: Indicators of Effective Practice

Practice guide Culture Shift Instructional Transformation Talent Development Turnaround Leadership

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The Engagement Playbook: A Toolkit for Engaging Stakeholders Around the Four Domains of Rapid School Improvement

Tools/Toolkit Culture Shift Instructional Transformation Talent Development Turnaround Leadership

Prioritizing Talent in Turnaround: Recommendations for Identifying, Hiring and Supporting Principals and Teachers in Low-Performing Schools

Practice guide Talent Development Turnaround Leadership


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Technical Assistance

Four Domains of Rapid Improvement

The CST offers a variety of technical assistance services to state education agencies and local education agencies, including direct and targeted support in any or all of the four domains for rapid school improvement: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.

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Events

M&I Affinity Group Virtual Workshop #6

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

10:30 am PST / 1:30 pm EST

Induction Program Monitoring and Continuous Improvement (for T4T participants only)

M&I Affinity Group Virtual Workshop #4

Monday, June 18, 2018

10:30 am PST / 1:30 pm EST

Using ESSA Funding for Multiyear Mentoring and Induction (for T4T participants only)

M&I Affinity Group Virtual Workshop #2

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

10:30 am PST / 1:30 pm EST

Beginning Teacher Needs Assessment and Communities of Practice (for T4T participants only)


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