Reimagine Your School Improvement Effort With the Four Domains
WestEd’s Center for School Turnaround and Improvement (CSTI) works with state, district, and school leaders across the country using the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement Framework. Research and experience show that these areas are key to making sustained progress. Add the Four Domains practices to your school improvement plan to create conditions for everyone to work together in support of student achievement.
Improvement Services
At CSTI, we use an adaptable approach to school improvement that incorporates insights from successful turnarounds across the country while acknowledging local school context. Deploy the Four Domains CALL Survey in a single school, collaborate with us on systemic goals, and draw from our professional learning and technical assistance resources.
Get Started With Four Domains CALL
Launch an improvement plan for your school with our support. Find out which Four Domains practices are areas of relative strength and relative need using our Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL). Then, we’ll show you how to use our feedback system to keep your plan on track.
School and District Transformation
Collaborate with us on systemic change. Using appreciative inquiry, we recognize and build on the strengths of individual schools and state and local educational agencies (LEAs) to address key challenges in systemwide school improvement efforts across multiple phases.
School Improvement Technical Assistance
Turnaround is hard work; it is not a linear series of steps that guarantee success. Contact us for personalized professional learning based on the Four Domains, join us at a supportive peer-to-peer convening, and explore our publications and tools to deepen your understanding.
What School Improvement Leaders Are Saying
Go for it! [The CALL Survey provides] valuable data [about] staff perceptions. … Who better to get feedback from than the people who are working day in and day out on this.
Ogden (UT) Preparatory Academy
I’m so thrilled about our partnership with WestEd and Four Domains CALL. … We’re getting a little peek into the practices and beliefs about what’s taking place in the building.
Utah State Board of Education
We were particularly impressed by the results [of the CALL Survey] because in the past it was really hard to measure process changes at a school, or even in our case, to see where we were.
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Resources for State Educational Agencies
We collaborate closely with state educational agencies (SEAs) on school improvement initiatives, including implementing statewide needs assessments, supporting school improvement planning, and using the Four Domains CALL Survey and Feedback System.
CSTI hosts quarterly convenings for SEA school improvement leaders to exchange ideas about various topics related to school improvement. Members of this community are also provided access to an archive of resources created by SEAs for use by their peers. Additionally, we host an in-person event each year the day before the National ESEA Conference.
Upcoming Convenings for SEA School Improvement Leaders
Get the Books
Transformational Leadership for Rapid School Improvement, edited by Dr. Kevin Perks with a foreword by Dr. Terry Hofer, strengthens your capacity to implement the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement Framework.
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Leading with Urgency by Joseph G. Sassone, introduces a practical, field-tested framework designed to help K–12 principals navigate the complex challenges of leading meaningful school change efforts.
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