Conclusion: A Brighter Future

A Brighter Future

Throughout this book, our focus has been on the use of time and on the strategies to drive learning. In each chapter, we've offered a system to drive school growth and the ways to put it into place. Taken together, we've offered a comprehensive blueprint for building an exceptional school.

Yet this book's ultimate purpose is not time management; it's not even great school leadership. This book is about students like David Smith. In fourth grade, David was slated to be tracked into a self-contained special-needs classroom. Six years later, David is one of North Star High School's top students, a tenth grader whose Scholastic Aptitude Test scores are already above the national average. A few years ...

Get Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.