TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Dailiness, Dilemmas, and Dialogue of Deep Change, Gerald Ponder and David Strahan. Part I: Journeys Toward Significance: Reports From Schools. Success Cycles at Hunter Elementary: Collaboration, Culture, Commitment and Continuity, Gerald Ponder and Sandy Webb. Sustaining School Reform at Hunter Elementary: The Role of University – School Partnerships, Robert Gasparello, Joseph Farrell, Sue Mercier, Samuel Miller, Jean Rohr and Gerald G. Duffy. Developing a Shared Stance Toward Learning at Central Elementary School, David Strahan, Heidi Carlone, Suzanne Horn, Fern Dallas, and Anita Ware. Continuing a Journey toward Significance at Central Elementary School, David Strahan and Jennifer Mangrum. Powerful Learning: Creating Learning Communities in Urban School Reform, Joy Phillips. Inquiry as Stance: An Administrator-Initiated Narrative Practice, Cheryl Craig. Negotiating Tensions in School Reform: Efforts to Promote a Learning Community in an Urban Middle School, Fern Dallas and David Strahan. Commentary on Schools of Significance, Ann Lieberman. Part II: Programs Of Significance: Case Studies Of Initiatives That Connect Schools. That Dog Won’t Hunt!: Exemplary School Change Efforts Within the Kentucky Reform, Shelby Wolf, Hilda Borko, Rebekah L Elliott, and Monette C. McIver. Reforming Schools by Reforming Relationships: The Bryan Leadership Development Initiative, Kathleen M. Ponder, Jennifer Martineau, Karen Dyer, and Mike Renn. Rural School Improvement Networks: Creating Possibilities for Significance in the 21st Century, Vernon Farrington, Mark L’Esperance, and Steve Mazingo. Migrant Education, Pedro Reyes and Carol Fletcher. Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well, Judith Langer. Commentary on Programs of Significance, Michael Fullan. Part III: Patterns of Promise: First Steps in Initiating Deep Change for Student Success, David Strahan and Gerald Ponder.