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Contains a handbook designed to improve student achievement by implementing a school reform program that analyzes current curriculum, team planning, and the policies and practices that affect learning.

Discusses the lessons education research has taught about what practices and factors make a difference in student achievement, covering school goals, curricula, student-teacher relationships, home environment, community involvement, instructional strategies, motivation theories, and other related topics.

Presents a framework for implementing the Working on the Work (WOW) principles in schools, a plan designed to improve student performance by increasing the quality of schoolwork.

Offers advice for successful educational leadership in at-risk schools and includes examples from over fifty schools that illustrate how the leaders at these schools motivated students and raised academic achievement.

Offers strategies for improving achievement among disadvantaged students.

Presents six principles for creating and implementing high-performance schools and provides ways to handle difficult issues, advice on team teaching and learning, and suggestions for continuous improvement and evaluation of methods.

"Drawing from the authors' extensive research and professional learning partnerships with classrooms, schools, and school districts, this book discusses learning targets and reasons why they should be pursued in the classroom"--Provided by publisher.

Emphasizes collaborative leadership at the district, principal, team, and individual levels, and advocates the professional learning community (PLC) as the best environment for great teaching and leading; and gives suggestions for ongoing monitoring of student learning, ensuring effective instruction, responding when kids don't learn, and more.

Analyzes persistent myths about teaching and learning and offers ideas and strategies for dispelling them through creativity, fresh thinking, innovation, and authentic assessments.

Drawing on their years of experience in the classroom, the authors explain why culture makes the difference between a school that enables success for all students and a school that merely houses those students during the school day; and also provide nineteen action research tools that will help create a culture of achievement, so that a school or classroom is the best it can be.

Presents six principles for creating and implementing high-performance schools and provides ways to handle difficult issues, advice on team teaching and learning, and suggestions for continuous improvement and evaluation of methods.

Explains the whole-faculty study group process as an approach to school reform, discussing the role of the principal, the developmental stages of study groups, and other topics, and looking at why the process is so successful when properly applied.