Partnership for Leaders in Education
UVA-PLE - Creative Partnerships
Creative Partnerships
In our commitment to advance strong leadership practice across the entire education space, the UVA-PLE designs and facilitates various custom programs and partnerships to meet the needs of state education agencies; nonprofits; and previous, current and new district partners.
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Accelerate
Accelerate Partnership Overview
It is rare for a public school system to create and sustain high levels of growth in a multitude of high-poverty, previously underserved schools and ultimately create performance far above the state average. But given positive results in a number of the UVA-PLE’s partner districts, there are many of our partners striving toward or achieving just this.
In 2016, UVA-PLE launched Accelerate, its first ever national sustainability program to further establish proof points of school excellence in these districts and to inform broader efforts to improve the systems and schools within these communities. Since its inception, only a select group of schools from each district were invited to join the program, with a particular focus on including those that have experienced significant growth over the course of their change initiative and have school leadership and system conditions most ready for next-level change.
In this partnership in pursuit of systems of excellence, we encourage school and district partners to deepen their existing change efforts while tackling next-order challenges. During the partnership, we hope to accelerate efforts to institutionalize systems and cultures of continuous improvement that will last beyond changes in district or school leadership and inform what is possible to other schools in the system. Doing this well requires engaging teacher leaders more intentionally in the process of transformational change and thus serves a dual purpose of helping to build leadership pipelines.
Outcomes for Accelerate Partnerships Include:Insight: Generate insight from continuous improvement efforts, informed by a deep understanding of stakeholder experience and multiple measures of data.
Co-creation: Create structures for team members to champion day-to-day improvement efforts and engage stakeholders in co-creating success.
Vision to Inspire: Create a next-level vision for sustainable high-performance and leverage that vision to inspire improvements in key capabilities.
Iteration to Achieve: Launch, iterate and refine an innovative project that directs talent and resources in pursuit of achieving the vision.
Redesign to Evolve: Institutionalize lessons learned, develop a plan for scaling them, and continue evolving a culture of continuous improvement.
Research Basis for Accelerate PartnershipRelatively little is understood about change — not just during the initial turnaround stage, but change that endures on the larger journey as the school becomes a healthy organization for adults and students. This study synthesizes existing frameworks relevant to implicated constructs of (1) school turnaround, (2) effective educational leadership, (3) turnaround external to education, and (4) sustained improvement external to education through developing a cohesive set of practices to inform the work of researchers and practitioners.
Enduring Myths That Inhibit School Turnaround
The concept of school turnaround — rapidly improving schools and increasing student achievement outcomes in a short period of time — has become politicized despite the relative newness of the idea. This book is the first in a new series on school turnaround and reform intended to spur ongoing dialogue among and between researchers, policymakers and practitioners on improving the lowest-performing schools and the systems in which they operate.
- State Education Agency
- Elevate and Custom
Accelerate Partnership Overview
It is rare for a public school system to create and sustain high levels of growth in a multitude of high-poverty, previously underserved schools and ultimately create performance far above the state average. But given positive results in a number of the UVA-PLE’s partner districts, there are many of our partners striving toward or achieving just this.
In 2016, UVA-PLE launched Accelerate, its first ever national sustainability program to further establish proof points of school excellence in these districts and to inform broader efforts to improve the systems and schools within these communities. Since its inception, only a select group of schools from each district were invited to join the program, with a particular focus on including those that have experienced significant growth over the course of their change initiative and have school leadership and system conditions most ready for next-level change.
In this partnership in pursuit of systems of excellence, we encourage school and district partners to deepen their existing change efforts while tackling next-order challenges. During the partnership, we hope to accelerate efforts to institutionalize systems and cultures of continuous improvement that will last beyond changes in district or school leadership and inform what is possible to other schools in the system. Doing this well requires engaging teacher leaders more intentionally in the process of transformational change and thus serves a dual purpose of helping to build leadership pipelines.
Outcomes for Accelerate Partnerships Include:
Insight: Generate insight from continuous improvement efforts, informed by a deep understanding of stakeholder experience and multiple measures of data.
Co-creation: Create structures for team members to champion day-to-day improvement efforts and engage stakeholders in co-creating success.
Vision to Inspire: Create a next-level vision for sustainable high-performance and leverage that vision to inspire improvements in key capabilities.
Iteration to Achieve: Launch, iterate and refine an innovative project that directs talent and resources in pursuit of achieving the vision.
Redesign to Evolve: Institutionalize lessons learned, develop a plan for scaling them, and continue evolving a culture of continuous improvement.
Research Basis for Accelerate Partnership
Relatively little is understood about change — not just during the initial turnaround stage, but change that endures on the larger journey as the school becomes a healthy organization for adults and students. This study synthesizes existing frameworks relevant to implicated constructs of (1) school turnaround, (2) effective educational leadership, (3) turnaround external to education, and (4) sustained improvement external to education through developing a cohesive set of practices to inform the work of researchers and practitioners.
Enduring Myths That Inhibit School Turnaround
The concept of school turnaround — rapidly improving schools and increasing student achievement outcomes in a short period of time — has become politicized despite the relative newness of the idea. This book is the first in a new series on school turnaround and reform intended to spur ongoing dialogue among and between researchers, policymakers and practitioners on improving the lowest-performing schools and the systems in which they operate.