Best Leadership Practices for High-Poverty Schools

For those of us who teach aspiring principals and superintendents, Lyman and Villani have collated compelling data both from the literature and their own study that we can use to counter the pervasive deficit thinking that students bring to our classrooms? and that policy makers use to shape less than effective mandates to address the plight of poor families. Providers of professional development for incumbent school and district leaders also need to read this work so that a change of attitude can takeplace...