Looks at district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading their students.

School improvement means people improvement -- The district's role in supporting the PLC process -- The principal's role in leading a professional learning community -- Creating the collaborative culture of a professional learning community -- Developing a guaranteed and viable curriculum -- Ongoing monitoring of student learning -- Ensuring effective instruction -- Responding when kids don't learn -- Leadership is an affair of the heart.