Turning high-poverty schools into high-performing schools

Foreword / by Michael Copland

Introduction : we must keep asking the questions

Any high-poverty school can become high performing

Learning from high-performing, high-poverty schools

Poverty and our moral responsibility

A framework for action : leading high-poverty schools to high performance

Building leadership capacity : HP/HP schools eliminate what doesn't work

Building leadership capacity : how HP/HP schools do it

Fostering a healthy, safe, and supportive learning environment : HP/HP schools eliminate what doesn't work

Fostering a healthy, safe, and supportive learning environment : how HP/HP schools do it

Focusing on student, professional, and system learning : HP/HP schools eliminate what doesn't work

Focusing on student, professional, and system learning : how HP/HP schools do it

Beyond improving individual schools : two critical questions

Appendix : further verification of the framework.

Foreword / by Michael Copland

Introduction: We can do this

Any high poverty school can become high performing

Learning from high-performing, high-poverty schools

Understanding poverty and our moral responsibility

Using a framework for collective action

Building leadership capacity and collective efficacy

Fostering a healthy, safe, and supportive learning environment

Focusing on student, professional, and system learning

Eliminating practices that perpetuate underachievement and inequity

Supporting transformation of high poverty schools from the district.