Publications

This guide details the fundamental characteristics of the young adolescent learner and explains how Turning Points schools work to meet the needs of these students.

This Turning Points guide offers researched based tools and strategies for helping schools, teachers, families, and communities partner to deepen student learning and engagement.

This guide describes how schools can use the Turning Points benchmarks to access their implementation of the model, and includes detailed benchmarks for the six Turning Points practices.

This report provides evidence and examples that effective implementation of autonomies in schools with clear visions for teaching and learning creates schools in which students have a better chance of succeeding.

This Turning Points guide explains the need to create a school culture based on collaboration and shared leadership, redefining the role of teachers and principals for more collaborative decision making.

This guide explains the five key principles of Turning Points curriculum and development, and includes tools and a template teachers can use to design curriculum and create classroom practices.

This guide documents the Turning Points practice of data-based inquiry that helps teachers, administrators, and community members use data to address the challenges facing a school.