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Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Authors xxi
Reframing School Culture 1
What I Am Becoming 4
What Does This Look Like? Changing the Nature of Work 7
Professional Growth 12
Why Do It? It Is About Quality of Life and Learning! 14
Fostering Resiliency: A Lens for Reframing Culture 18
Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace 20
Essential Questions 21
Resources 21
Tools 21
Organizations 21
Resiliency 21
Endnotes 22
Learning to Lead 23
Why the Need to Distribute Leadership? 24
What Is Distributed Leadership? 25
The Skills, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Skillful Teacher Leaders 26
New Roles, New Relationships 29
Teachers Educating Each Other 33
Teachers as Advocates 36
Leading and Managing Change 39
Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace 45
Essential Questions 46
Resources 46
Tools 46
Organizations 47
Survey 47
How Did We Do? - A Teacher Survey 47
Endnotes 49
Influencing Student Learning 51
Closing the Achievement Gap and Habits of Mind 53
Valuing the Staff 61
Focusing Resources 66
Community and School Setting 69
Community and School Demographics 69
Material, Economic, and Human Resources at the Site 70
Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace 73
Essential Questions 74
Resources 74
Community Connections 74
Community Mapping 77
Gap Analysis 78
Endnotes 80
The Role of Inquiry 83
Definition of Collaborative Action Research 85
Collaborative Action Research, When Well Conducted, Brings Out the Best in Its Members 89
Action Research Has an Invaluable Application to the Classroom 92
Methodology 93
Results 94
Conclusions and Recommendations 94
The Potential Power of Collaborative Action Research as a Methodology to Enact Schoolwide Sustained Change 95
Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace 98
Essential Questions 99
Resources 99
The Five Whys 100
Building Equity in Diverse Classrooms 101
Distributing Teachers' Work 104
Personalizing Teaching and Learning 109
Students' Academic Performance at the Center of Staff Conversations 113
Having the Equity Conversation 115
The Work 117
Results 120
What Equity-Focused Schools Look Like 121
Academic Success 121
High Expectations 122
Culture of Evidence 123
Personalization 124
Networking 126
Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace 126
Essential Questions 128
Resources 128
Endnote 129
Advocating for Students and Teachers 131
Advocacy: Adding Voice to a Cry 132
Advocacy for Students 133
Special Needs Students 133
The Whole Child 135
Supporting Parents as Advocates for Student Learning 137
Advocacy for Beginning Teachers 138
Advocacy for Teachers 140
Quality Professional Development 140
Equitable Working Conditions 142
Political Advocacy 146
Working to Impact Policy 146
The Attempted Solution 148
Team Growth 149
Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace 149
Essential Questions 150
Resources 150
Tools 150
Organizations 150
Resiliency 151
Endnote 151
Courageous Followers and Leaders 153
Spreading One's Wings: Lessons Learned While Becoming Leaders of Change and Transition 156
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change 158
The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders 159
Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace 164
Essential Questions 165
Resources 165
Tools 165
Organizations 166
Conclusion 167
List of Contributors 171
References 185
Index 189
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