The school turnaround

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Turning around a school entails encouraging staff and students to downplay and water down powerful distractions and existing challenges, which could undermine the teaching and learning process and steer it toward a pedagogically focused direction.

Schools should have faith in the efficacy of sound, inclusive, and engaging instructional practices.

There can never be a state in a school’s life in which problems are completely eradicated. Granted, all schools are swimming in a pool of problems, but what sets one school apart from the others is the attitude towards the issues at hand. Under the weight of problems, one school can succumb to the inevitable decline.

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The school turnaround

Turning around a school entails encouraging staff and students to downplay and water down powerful distractions and existing challenges, which could undermine the teaching and learning process and steer it toward a pedagogically focused direction.

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