Table of Contents

Forward: Ken Leithwood.....................................................................................3

Acknowledgements............................................................................................8

Part I: Changing Context for School Development and Description of the Model..................10

Chapter 1: School Development Approaches Over Time: Strengths, Limitations, and the  Need for a New Approach..............................................................................11

Chapter 2: A New Approach to School Development...............................................41

Part II: Lessons from the Arizona School Development Model.......................................68

Chapter 3: Values, Culture and Context...............................................................69

Chapter 4: Building and Sustaining School Leadership Capacity.................................84

Chapter 5: Using Data as a Source of Reflection in a Feedback Loop...........................94

Chapter 6: Going Deeper into Curriculum and Pedagogical Activity...........................105

Chapter 7: Strength-based Approaches to Meeting Culturally Diverse Student Needs.......115

Part III: Extending the Process to Other Contexts......................................................131

Chapter 8:  School Development in South Carolina - Building Leadership Capacity for Evidence-Based School Development in South Carolina Schools by Peter Moyi, Suzy   Hardie & Kathleen M.W. Cunningham, University of South Carolina.........................134

Chapter 9:  The Swedish Context - Bringing Support Structures To Scale: The Role of the State and School Districts by Olof Johansson & Helene Ärlestig, Centre for Principal Development, Umeå University......................................................................170

Chapter 10:  The Australian Context - National, State and School-level Efforts to Improve Schools in Australia by  David Gurr, Daniela Acquaro & Lawrie Drysdale, The University  of Melbourne............................................................................................193

Chapter 11:  The German Context - School Turnaround in Ten Schools in Difficult Circumstances in Germany: The Need for Adaptive and Contextualized Approaches             to Development and Change by Guri Skedsmo, Schwyz University of Teacher Education/University of Oslo and Stephan Huber, University of Teacher Education Zug...233

Part IV: Conclusions and Looking Ahead...............................................................259

Chapter 12:  Concluding Comments and Looking Ahead.........................................260