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This book presents cases of schools (Part One) and programs at the district level and beyond (Part Two) in which reform, while driven by high-stakes accountability, became larger and deeper through data-driven dialogue, culture change, organizational learning, and other elements of high performing cultures. Commentaries on cross-case patterns by Ann Lieberman and Michael Fullan and a chapter on "now what?" first steps provide implications for initiating deep change that results in improved student learning outcomes even in challenging activity settings.
Chapter 1. The Dailiness, Dilemmas, and Dialogue of Deep Change; Gerald Ponder and David Strahan
Part I. Journeys Toward Significance: Reports From Schools.
Chapter 2. Success Cycles at Hunter Elementary: Collaboration, Culture, Commitment and Continuity; Gerald Ponder and Sandy Webb
Chapter 3. Sustaining School Reform at Hunter Elementary: The Role of University–School Partnerships; Robert Gasparello, Joseph Farrell, Sue Mercier, Samuel Miller, Jean Rohr and Gerald G. Duffy
Chapter 4. Developing a Shared Stance Toward Learning at Central Elementary School; David Strahan, Heidi Carlone, Suzanne Horn, Fern Dallas, and Anita Ware
Chapter 5. Continuing a Journey Toward Significance at Central Elementary School; David Strahan and Jennifer Mangrum
Chapter 6. Powerful Learning: Creating Learning Communities in Urban School Reform; Joy Phillips
Chapter 7. Inquiry as Stance: An Administrator-Initiated Narrative Practice; Cheryl Craig
Chapter 8. Negotiating Tensions in School Reform: Efforts to Promote a Learning Community in an Urban Middle School; Fern Dallas and David Strahan
Chapter 9. Commentary on Schools of Significance; Ann Lieberman
Part II. Programs of Significance: Case Studies of Initiatives That Connect Schools.
Chapter 10. That Dog Won't Hunt!: Exemplary School Change Efforts Within the Kentucky Reform; Shelby Wolf, Hilda Borko, Rebekah L. Elliott, and Monette C. McIver
Chapter 11. Reforming Schools by Reforming Relationships: The Bryan Leadership Development Initiative; Kathleen M. Ponder, Jennifer Martineau, Karen Dyer, and Mike Renn
Chapter 12. Rural School Improvement Networks: Creating Possibilities for Significance in the 21st Century; Vernon Farrington, Mark L'Esperance, and Steve Mazingo
Chapter 13. Migrant Education; Pedro Reyes and Carol Fletcher
Chapter 14. Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well; Judith Langer
Chapter 15. Beyond Islands of Exemplary Change; Michael Fullan
Chapter 16. "Scaling Up" in Turbulent Times: Small Steps and Big Toward Deep Change; David Strahan and Gerald Ponder