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List of Figures | |
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List of Tools to Help Answer the Question in the Room | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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About the Author | |
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Dedication | |
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Why We Can't Wait to Scale Student Success | |
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The Power of Positive Deviance Saves Millions of Children in Vietnam | |
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Applying Positive Deviance to Education | |
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Good News for Scaling Student Success | |
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About This Book and Chapter | |
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Some Common Core Principles of Networking and Positive Deviance | |
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Challenges to Scaling Success in U.S. Education | |
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The Moral and Economic Imperative for Change Is Now | |
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What Works, What Doesn't, What's Next? | |
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The Big Question | |
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A Process to Create Sustained Student Success | |
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A Movement Is Born in U.S. Education-and Exported to Other Nations | |
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The Catalyst to Change | |
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The Create Process | |
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The Advantages of the Create Process | |
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The Big Question | |
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The Courage to Commit to the Work | |
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Defining Courage | |
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A Pillar of Courage | |
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Building a Collective Commitment to Scale Up Student Success | |
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7 Tools for Constructing a Large-Scale Community Commitment | |
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Create and Courageous Leadership: Qualities of the Courageous Leader | |
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The Big Question | |
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Resources Are in the Room | |
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The Most Valuable Resource: Focused Commitment Over Time | |
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The Second Major Resource: Patience and Urgency | |
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The Third Major Resource: Steering Committee | |
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How to Get Time to Collaborate | |
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Getting Down to the Details | |
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The Big Question | |
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Taking Stock of the Excellence in the Room | |
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Is There Excellence or Positive Deviance to Be Found? | |
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Defining Excellence Is Done Twice by the Lead Teams | |
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Developing a Community to Question the Answer: Language, Purpose, and Norms | |
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Improving Instructional Practice: Change the Methods and You Will Change the Outcomes | |
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The Big Question | |
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An Action Plan for Engaging the Entire Learning Community | |
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Developing a Common Language for the Action Plan | |
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Key Challenges to Address in the Action Plan | |
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Reentry Plans to Engage the Larger School Community, Build Trust, and Ensure Transparency | |
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Developing Smart Goals That the School Community Wants to Achieve | |
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Successful Implementation of Smart Goals | |
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Identifying and Assessing Excellence | |
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The Big Question | |
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Transference of Knowledge and Skills Throughout the Learning Community | |
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Transferring Knowledge and Skills Within the School | |
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Transferring Knowledge and Skills Throughout the District | |
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Tuning Protocol | |
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The Big Question | |
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Embedding the New Learning in the Culture for Sustainability | |
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Three Pillars of Embedding the Process in the School Culture | |
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The Big Question | |
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Tools to Help Answer the Questions in the Room<sup>*</sup> | |
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Writing an Instructional Smart Goal Worksheet | |
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Strategies for Making Time | |
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Agreement of Purpose Worksheet | |
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Creating Group Norms: Facilitator Guide Example | |
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An Example Participant Handout for Creating Group Norms | |
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Steps of Instructional Learning Walks | |
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Indicators of Quality Instructional Learning Walks Observation Sheet | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |