The "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" ("ESEA"), as amended by the "Every Student Succeeds Act" ("ESSA") has transformed federal support for low-performing schools by moving away from prescriptive models of school turnaround toward supporting state innovation. State approaches to implementing "ESEA" still demonstrate a strong commitment to school leadership as an important lever for improving low-performing schools. Thus, while Congress changed the requirements for addressing the needs of low performing schools through "ESSA," lessons learned about school leaders from the Turnaround School Leaders Program (TSLP) may still be helpful to states and districts. The U.S. Department of Education (Department) funded two cohorts of TSLP grantees, one in 2014, the other in 2015. Each grant lasted three years. The grants were designed to support school turnaround by investing in partnerships between school districts and state education agencies, institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations. Each partnership contained at least one school district with at least five low-performing schools. The goal of the TSLP was to build the quality and supply of leaders with the skills and knowledge to turn around low-performing schools. This descriptive study examined the ways in which the first cohort of 12 grantees identified and trained future leaders of turnaround schools and presents preliminary indicators of program outcomes. [For the full report, see ED594698.]