Building leadership capacity means using effort to elicit effort from others, and every member of the education community plays a significant role in this endeavor. This guide offers strategies for building leadership capacity in schools and helps school administrators find new ways to encourage and support effort. It answers four questions: 1) what do leaders do to push all students to higher levels of proficiency?; 2) how do school leaders demonstrate that nearly all students can master challenging curricula?; 3) how do leaders encourage the efforts of others to focus on the success of every student?; and 4) how can leaders put these ideas into practice?

Keywords: extra help, high expectations, concentration, leading for learning, modeling, student achievement, coaching, qualified teachers, staff development, community partnerships, attendance, accountability, guidance, transition, project-based learning, planning

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