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• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Chapter 1: Introduction to the High-Payoff Strategies
• Focus on High-Payoff Strategies
• Building Blocks That Make High-Payoff Strategies Work
• A Word about Effective Change Leadership
• Organization of This Book
• Chapter 2: Vision and Focus: The Starting Points
• Setting the Vision
• See It in Action: Vision
• Sharpening Focus
• Focus Factors
• What Can Get in the Way?
• Maintaining Focus: Implications for the High-Payoff Strategies
• A Self-Reflective Tool for Leader Vision and Focus
• Self-Reflection on Vision and Focus
• Summary
• Part 1: Strategy: Culture
• Chapter 3: Creating a Culture Supportive of Teaching and Learning
• Use of Symbols
• Shared Values
• Shared Values as Symbols
• Getting Buy-In: “We’re All in This Together”
• Starting with an Early Win
• Providing Ongoing Support
• See It in Action: Leading School Culture
• What Can Get in the Way?
• Chapter 4: Using Data to Plan Culture Strategies
• The Measuring-the-Culture Exercise
• Part 2: Strategy: Instructional Improvements
• Chapter 5: Leading Instructional Improvements
• Getting Buy-In: “We’re All in This Together”
• Starting with an Early Win
• Providing Ongoing Support
• What Can Get in the Way?
• Chapter 6: Using Data to Plan Instructional Improvement Strategies
• Assessing readiness with the AAA Tool
• The Assessing Attitudes and Aptitudes (AAA) Tool
• Useful Analyses
• Part 3: Strategy: Learning Communities
• Chapter 7: Facilitating Learning Communities
• Purpose and Goals
• Learning Methods
• Structures
• District-Level Learning Communities
• Advice for Planners and Facilitators
• Getting Buy-In: “We’re All in This Together”
• Starting with an Early Win
• Providing Ongoing Support
• See It in Action: Working with Learning Communities
• What Can Get in the Way?
• Chapter 8: Using Data to Plan Learning Community Strategies
• Learning Together Templates
• Part 4: The Payoff
• Chapter 9: Using All Strategies Together to Achieve the Vision
• Annotated Bibliography
• Ideas for Using These Materials in Courses and Workshops
• Name Index
• Index
• End User License Agreement