Includes bibliographical references.

Being an expert : building social, cultural, and academic capital with an English learner / Sally Brown -- Breaking the mold in secondary schools : creating a culture of literacy / Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Diane Lapp, and Douglas Fisher -- Canines in the classroom / Karen Bostic Frederick -- Grassroots approach to co-teaching for English language learners / Maria G. Dove -- Language learning 2.0 : new Internet tools for the language classroom / Lori Langer de Ramirez -- Everyone matters, everyone cares, everyone learns : supporting school communities in the twenty-first century / Marc Ferris -- Creating space to tell our stories : collaborative networks as professional development for language educators / James H. Powell, Patricia Chesbro, and Nancy Boxler -- The link between accountability and collaboration : creating an infrastructure based upon shared leadership and student performance / Audrey F. Murphy -- Becoming leaders : a visionary educator leads the way / Alice E. Ginsberg -- The power and potential of strengths-based connectedness : new directions in leadership and organizations / Alan J. Daly -- Messages and mindsets : powerful tools for transforming schools / Joan R. Fretz -- The superintendent as spiritual leader / Judith R. Merz -- Imagination is our middle name : the High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry, and Lincoln Center Institute / Medeleine F. Holzer, Stephen M. Noonan, and Scott Noppe-Brandon -- Opening the portal to innovative learning : a model for science and education / Anastasia Legakes and Suzanne D. Morgan -- The re-invention of a city school : a magnet (school) for students and parents / Nadine Binkley -- Creating a demonstration learning-style district of excellence / Lois Favre and Susan Rundle -- Avenidas nuevas : new pathways for modeling and supporting home-based literacy strategies with Hispanic parents / Diane W. G�omez, Diane E. Lang, and Suzanne M. Lasser -- High school redesign in New Hampshire : follow the child / Mary Ellen Freeley and Richard Hanzelka -- District leadership and school-community collaboration / Mavis G. Sanders -- Operation Day's Work : developing student leaders for the global era / Linda Kantor Swerdlow -- Generation schools : a comprehensive urban school reform model / Nora E. Hyland and Furman Brown -- Writing local history journals can be engaging and educationally worthwhile / Charles F. Howlett -- Time to tell the truth about local history, New York was a land of slavery : how student activism promotes leadership and literacy / Michael Pezone and Alan Singer -- Preventing the gap in preschool : a suburban community model / Zoila Tazi -- How to teach an old school new tricks / Margaret S. Parsons -- Learning environments matter : taking learning outside the classroom / Irene Nigaglioni -- Liberating learning and its environment / Michael A. Malone -- Re-writing the rules for a new design literacy / James Capolupo, Douglas Carney, and Robert Pillar -- Still hoping for that cradle to grave high school / Philip J. Poinelli -- Innovation and transformation at a Zambian school / Monisha Bajaj -- At St. George's, it all begins with self-management : getting to know yourself / J. Alan Cooper -- Successful teaching practices in a New Zealand Wh�anau classroom : enhanced English reading learning for M�aori children / Fleur Harris -- Z�old Kakas : an ethos-oriented second-chance high school in Hungary / M�aria Moln�ar, J�ozsef Braun, and Judit Kov�ats -- Providing students with uninterrupted learning experiences : a success story from Iceland / Ingvar Sigurgeirsson -- Conclusion / Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld.