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    3 strands form strong school leadership

    By Jonathan Saphier, Matt King and John D'Auria
    April 2006
    If you go to a teacher team meeting and observe well, you can tell if a school is on the move. Take a typical school district on a Tuesday. At the high school, the four teachers who teach 9th-grade algebra are meeting. Across town at Parker Elementary, the three 4th-grade teachers are having their 60-minute weekly meeting. Later in the day, the social studies team at the middle school will be meeting. What do they spend their time doing? What beliefs about students are revealed in their talk? How honestly and nondefensively do they deal with one another?   The literature is clear and consistent that schools with strong organizational cultures produce the best results for children, especially children who are disadvantaged and behind grade

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