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Turn-Around Schools: [|TurnAround Blog] [|Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools: What Works Clearinghouse] [|Mass Insight: Research Overview] [|Turning Around the Nation's Lowest-Performing Schools] [|Turnaround Schools: Resources] [|Lessons from a Public School Turnaround]

School Culture: [|Shaping School Culture: Share the secrets for success of principals in seven high-achieving, high-poverty urban middle level schools] [|Inside the Black Box of High-Performing High-Poverty Schools] [|"Level Five Culture" in High-Achieving, High-Poverty Schools] [|The Intersection Between Common Core and School Culture] [|Project ASSIST School Culture Activities] [|The Center for Improving School Culture] [|Raising Expectations - Module 3]

High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools: [|Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools] [|The High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools Initiative]

Common Core: [|10 Must-See Common Core Resources] [|Testing Group Wrestles With 'College Readiness' Meaning] [|Cybraryman's Internet Catalogue: Common Core Resources] [|Resources for Understanding the Common Core State Standards]

Professional Learning Opportunities: [|Harvard Graduate School of Education: School Turnaround Leaders Program (2013)]

Team Building: [|Atlanta Challenge Team Building Events for Non-Profit Groups and Organizations]

Effective Coaching:   [|Educational Leadership: Coaching: The New Leadership Skill: The Year We Learned to Collaborate]

Understanding By Design: 

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Performance Assessments: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Reading & Writing Project: Common-Core-Aligned Performance Assessments] [|NYC Department of Education: Tasks, Units, & Student Work]