Excellence through equity: five principles of courageous leadership to guide achievement for every student

Part I. For every student

Introduction: Achieving excellence through equity for every student / Alan M. Blankstein and Pedro Noguera

Brockton high school, Brockton, Massachusetts / Susan Szachowicz

The path to equity: whole system change / Michael Fullan

Part II. Getting to your core

Building a school of opportunity begins with detracking / Carol Corbett Burris

The voices and hearts of youth: transformative power of equity in action / Linda Harper

Empowering students and teachers through performance-based assessment / Avram Barlowe and Ann Cook

Part III. Making organizational meaning

Human capital as a lever for districtwide change / Ann Blakeney Clark

Personalized learning / Allison Zmuda

Who wants a standardized child anyway? Treat everyone the same

differently /

Dennis Littky

Equitable ways to teach science to emergent bilinguals and immigrant youth / Estrella Olivares-Orellana

Part IV. Ensuring constancy and consistency of purpose

The journey toward equity and excellence: the Massachusetts experience / Paul Reville

Part V. Facing the facts and your fears

Focusing on equity propelled us from good to great: Abington School District's opportunity to learn initiative / Amy F. Sichel and Ann H. Bacon

Equity and achievement in the elementary school: how we redesigned our math instruction to increase achievement for every child / Darlene Berg

Part VI. Building sustainable relationships

A journey toward equity and excellence for all students in Chesterfield / Marcus J. Newsome

Equity through expanded learning time / Lucy N. Friedman and Saskia Traill

Part VII. Coda

The iniquity of inequity: and some international clues about ways to address it / Andy Hargreaves