Ensuring high achievement for all students requires more than technical solutions. To create schools where every student learns at high levels, school must find ways to transform the deficit beliefs many well-intentioned educators hold about culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse students and families. However, many school leaders don’t know how to address such beliefs. One way to begin to change teachers’ beliefs about students of diverse backgrounds is to provide learning experiences that allow participants to explore and discuss culture and its influence on their own identities, those of their students and families, and teaching and learning. We suggest book studies as a starting point. Book studies are among the simplest activities to implement because the planning, preparation, and time involved are relatively limited. They