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Not PL Ready/ PL Ready 
  • Hiring is done through traditional pool of applicants and may or may not include measures to gauge readiness and ability to implement PL.  
  • Parents are invited for conferences but are not involved in many or any other campus activities or initiatives.
  • Community involvement is either very limited or not evident at all.  
Consistent Practice/ Personalized 
  • Staff are hired with PL experience and/or are supported in understanding and implementing the campus PL vision.
  • Intentional diversity is evident in the student population i.e., students are of mixed race, socio-economic status, are accepted from all areas of the district, and the numbers of different groups of students are intentionally balanced.  
  • Parent involvement is evident across campus in various ways allowing for all to have access, i.e., parent-teacher-student conferences, classroom activities, communication, school wide activities, etc.
  • Community involvement is evident in various ways, ie: community partnerships, sponsorships, mentoring programs, internship opportunities, etc.
Resources to Support:
  • Building a Protocol for a Job Candidate Interview: Principals can use this tool to reflect on current practice for interviewing new staff and consider ways to improve interview protocols in turnaround schools to ensure that staff with the right type of skills is recruited.
  • Horace Mann Hiring Process: This is an example of one school’s hiring process.
  • Creating an Intentionally Diverse School: Lessons Learned: This report shares case studies and lessons learned by campuses as they set out to create intentionally diverse schools.
  • Intentionally Diverse Charter Schools: A Toolkit: This toolkit is designed to help charter school leaders and their stakeholders design and implement intentionally diverse charter schools. It presents decisions and actions, along with specific examples from three diverse charter schools, for school leaders’ consideration. Using this toolkit, leaders will learn more about how to measure student diversity, how to intentionally recruit and retain students, how to ensure that diversity is supported and experienced meaningfully at the individual, classroom, and schoolwide levels, and how to create and run schools that help all children thrive. (Though this is designed with Charter Schools in mind there are many valuable resources for traditional public schools as well.)
  • How to Solve the Parent Engagement Problem: This article highlights how to effectively engage parents in their student’s education by treating them as as full partners in their children’s education, not taken for granted.
  • Critical Drivers of Parent Engagement in Schools: This short article highlights the top 5 drivers of how to get parents engaged on campuses.
  • ​Strategies for Community Engagement in School Turnaround: This report examines one key strategy for making school turnaround more effective: community engagement . The purpose of community engagement is to ensure that school improvement is done with the community, not to the community . It recognizes how integral schools are to their communities, and how much parents and communities have to offer as partners when fundamental change must occur in schools.
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  • Home
  • About
    • Personalized Learning
    • Meet the Team
    • Meet the Cohort
    • In the News
    • Impact Report
    • Sharing the Work
    • Blog
  • The Rubric
    • Assessment and Data >
      • Data Driven Instruction
      • Student Feedback
      • Authentic Assessment
      • Choice in Assessment
    • Instructional Rigor >
      • Varied Learning Experiences
      • Differentiated Learning Objectives
      • Personalized Learning Pathways
      • Mastery Based Progression
    • Student Agency >
      • Rapport with Students
      • Self- Direction
      • Opportunities for Input
      • Advocacy Beyond Self
    • Classroom Culture >
      • Routines and Procedures
      • Peer Accountability
      • Growth Mindset
      • Sense of Purpose
    • Equity >
      • Self- Awareness
      • Diversity in Design
      • Collaborative Grouping
      • Access to Materials
    • Phases of PL
  • Readiness Continuum
    • 1 Vision + Priorities
    • 2 The PL Graduate
    • 3 Principal/ Leader
    • 4 PL Classroom Practices
    • 5 Curriculum + Instruction
    • 6 Data Driven Instruction
    • 7 Collaborative Design
    • 8 PL Campus Team
    • 9 Personalized PD + Supports
    • 10 Culture of Innovation
    • 11 Social Emotional Learning
    • 12 Sustainability + Access
  • Station Rotation Progression
    • Foundation Phase
    • Differentiated Phase
    • Personalized Phase
  • Distance Learning Progression
    • DLP | Establish a Learning Management System (LMS)
    • DLP | Engagement in Guided Learning
    • DLP | Engagement in Independent Learning
    • DLP | Feedback for Learning
  • Fellowships
    • Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation in Teaching Fellowship >
      • 2020-2021 Fellows
      • 2019-2020 Fellows
      • 2018-2019 Fellows
      • 2017-2018 Fellows
      • 2016-2017 Fellows
      • Fellowship Application
    • School Retool
  • At-Home Learning Webinars
  • Opportunities
    • Educator Tours
    • PL GOES CAMPING
    • PL Ski Trip 2020
    • Google Certification
    • Google Virtual Summit
    • University Partnerships- Texas Tech
  • The Lighthouse