Inside Ashe County Middle School's Project Turn Around: Nancy Reeves' Bold Initiative
Nancy Reeves demonstrated that institutional inertia yields when educators replace reactive discipline with structured intervention. Project Turn Around preserved academic pathways for students who were headed toward early dropouts, reminding educators that no middle schooler is beyond reach when an entire building mobilizes around their success. As districts confront attendance crises and lingering achievement gaps, the playbook written in Ashe County stands as proof of what purposeful leadership achieves.
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