Five Critical Conditions That Encourage School Improvement By Heather Zavadsky

Five Critical Conditions That Encourage School Improvement

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People often ask me what I’ve learned in 20-plus years of studying districts that have successfully lifted up chronically struggling schools. People also argue with me, asserting that districts are incapable of improving schools, or that charter schools and organizations are the only solution to the current problems.

I think it’s time to stop arguing over models and who owns or is credited with the solution. To prepare students to be productive 21st-century citizens, we need educational systems that offer a range of accessible, high-quality, innovative models from which students and families may choose. We need students to be prepared for the world we live in now and the one they will inhabit in the future.

How districts get there will vary, but their efforts must include the following five critical conditions:

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