SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT

A customizable system for: partnering side by side with your teachers and administrators to reach measurable goals

School Turnaround ›

Confidently move from mandated "Comprehensive Support and Improvement" or "Targeted Support and Improvement" through actions that meet ESSA requirements for evidence-based interventions. LSI successfully turned around all of its partner schools during the pandemic disrupted 2020-21 school year.
A classroom walk that monitors learning and provides actionable feedback to close learning gaps.

Tech Tools for Classroom Walks ›

Collect, analyze and share field data from classroom walkthroughs within seconds. LSI’s research-based technology identifies trends, democratizes data, and raises achievement for all. Administrators can compare data from class to class or school to school and offer effective feedback.

External Management ›

Led by former turnaround Principals, this research-based and field-tested method rapidly turns around the most persistently struggling K-12 schools and creates a sustainable path forward. Since 2018, 100% of our partner schools have improved!

Our Demonstration Schools meets Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requirements for evidence-based interventions.

This is especially critical for districts required to partner with an external agency to conduct reviews and implement an improvement plan.

How Lakewood (FL) Elementary School Made GAINS During COVID-19 ›

LSI matched rigor with on-grade level content at Lakewood (FL) Elementary School, during the pandemic and the results were astonishing – the school substantially outperformed its district learning rates. The numbers tell the story. See the spike in math and reading results.
Sarajean McDaniel 2020 Florida Principal Of The Year

2020 Florida Principal of the Year – Sarajean McDaniel (PART 1) ›

This is the first part of our two-part interview with Sarajean McDaniel. Learn how William D. Moseley Elementary School overcame severe behavior issues, habitually low-performance, and high teacher turnover to become a fast-developing, thriving, C-grade school in just one year.

How Bear Creek Elementary Went From a “D” to “A” ›

Be bold. That’s where a school leader must start if you want to lead meaningful school change. There’s nothing wrong with incremental improvement or plotting out a step-by-step process, but we have to take a step back and look at the big picture in order to develop a true vision. Where is my school right now? ...

Supporting Teachers and Principals to Prevent Turnover and Get Results

An LSI partnership helps you work on your Complete Systems to ensure the root cause is expertly addressed by education experts who have sat in your seat and work side by side with you.

We do not administer temporary, quick-fix programs.

Our focus is on helping teachers and leaders who are exhausted on dead-end programs that don’t get results by sharpening their overall daily workload, so they are not running in overdrive. Don’t go through trial and errors on your own, bring in an experienced external operator in LSI who knows how to get results and has the metrics to prove it.

“Our students did a phenomenal job, and it was because of the great partnership we have with Learning Sciences International. They sent the best and the brightest they have from their company to help mentor and develop us as instructional leaders to really move our school forward.” – Dr. Debra Wright-Hudson, Principal, McLaughlin Middle School (Fla.)

Meet
Michelle Fitzgerald, Ed.D.

YEARS IN EDUCATION: 30+
KEY ROLES: Director, School Turnaround, middle school teacher, building administrator, district curriculum coordinator, assistant superintendent, and area superintendent – principal supervisor

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Highly Customized Systems for School Improvement
or Low Performing School Turnaround:

School Turnaround
Classroom Walkthroughs
External Management

“The distributive leadership component of the workings of our school relied heavily on our LSI coach. He helped to have conversations with us along the way whenever we were taking on too much work ourselves and to really remind us that we had other people who we could turn to on the campus to utilize them to their fullest potential.” – Renee Nellenbach, Principal Lakewood Elementary School (Fla.)
Districts We Have Worked With
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We are dedicated to your success. We promise to deliver the latest research, and the most effective strategies for making dramatic, sustainable improvements in your schools and/or district.

This includes:

  • Training and empowering teachers to stay better informed than ever before about effective practice.
  • Supporting the process of self-evaluation, using research-based diagnostic tools to identify areas for improvement, and suggesting appropriate treatments.
  • Ensure every school has the capacity to improve and ensure underperformance or under-staffing is addressed swiftly.

Customize Your School Improvement System

Meet Our School Turnaround Team

Meet
Michelle Fitzgerald, Ed.D.

YEARS IN EDUCATION: 28+
KEY ROLES: Director, School Turnaround, middle school teacher, building administrator, district curriculum coordinator, assistant superintendent, and area superintendent – principal supervisor

 

Meet
Rob Belous, MBA

YEARS IN EDUCATION: 30+
KEY ROLES: Sr. Director of District Partnership, K-12 Teacher, turnaround administrator, district curriculum director and principal supervisor, leader in organizational design and reform

 

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