Results now: how we can achieve unprecedented improvements in teaching and learning

Introduction: The Brutal Facts About Instruction and Its Supervision

I. Reality and Illusion in Public Schools

1. The Buffer

2. Isolation: The Enemy of Improvement

3. Leadership Interrupted: How the Buffer Compromises Supervision

4. Curricular Chaos

II. Literacy Education: The Greatest Opportunity of All

5. The Power of Authentic Literacy

6. Authentic Literacy and Intellectual Development

7. The Startling State of Literacy Education

III. Learning and Leading in the Professional Learning Community

8. Professional Learning Communities: The Surest, Fastest Path to Instructional Improvement

9. Leadership in the Professional Learning Community

10. Scaling Up: Central Office and State-Level Leadership in the Learning Community

Conclusion. Why Not Us? Why Not Now?

Appendix A: Suggestions for Teaching Critical and Argumentative Literacy

Appendix B: Start Here for Improving Teaching

Appendix C: Agreements.