Lessons learned and practical advice from seven high-performing, high-poverty (HP/HP) schools, along with hundreds of others that have been the subject of intensive research, are the focus of this book. After setting the context by examining poverty and its stunning effects on students, the authors then zero in on what HP/HP schools stop doing or eliminated and what they started doing or improved on in three key areas of preformance; building leadership capacity, fostering a healthy , safe, and supportive learning environment and focusing on students, professional, and system learning.