Adrian Larbi-Cherif
District-led School Turnaround: Aiming for Ambitious and Equitable Instruction in Shelby County’s iZone
Research Report
2020
The Shelby County iZone is a district-led effort to dramatically improve, or “turn around,” 23 of the lowest performing schools in Tennessee in the 15th largest district in the country. Despite circumstances that have proved insurmountable to many past reform efforts, iZone schools have made significant gains in performance in both math and English language arts (ELA).
