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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• About the Authors
• Introduction: Systemic PLCs
• The Challenge of Cultural Change
• Why We Need Systemic PLCs
• Why Systemwide Reform Is Best
• A Roadmap for Going Big
• One: Clarity Precedes Competence
• What Is a Professional Learning Community?
• What Can Go Wrong?
• The Time Is Now
• You Are the System
• Two: Creating Coherence and Clarity
• Barriers to Coherence
• Strategies for Coherence Making
• The Payoff of Coherence Making
• Three: The Loose-Tight Dilemma
• The Too-Tight Problem
• The Danger of Carrots and Sticks
• The Too-Loose Problem
• The Right Balance
• Clarifying What Is Tight
• Examples of Too-Loose and Too-Tight Leadership Using the Common Core State Standards
• Four: The Loose-Tight System in Action
• Building Shared Knowledge and Deep Understanding
• Creating a Guaranteed Implemented Curriculum
• Monitoring Progress at the School Site
• Supporting Improvement Through Reciprocal Accountability
• Building Ongoing Adult Learning Into the System
• Celebrating Incremental Progress
• Five: Sustaining the Improvement Process
• Widespread Commitment to Both Long-Term Goals and Short-Term Action
• A Collaborative Culture and Collective Responsibility for Achieving Goals
• Lots of Leaders to Sustain Reform
• A Relentless Focus on Continuous Improvement
• Recognition and Celebration of Short-Term Wins
• Engagement in Continuous Improvement and Focused Innovation
• Resolute Leadership
• Fostering Systemness
• Afterword: Thinking (and Doing) Bigger
• References and Resources
• Index