Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Schools, Leadership, and Change -- Chapter 1: Lever 1: Structure -- Chapter 2: Lever 2: Sample -- Chapter 3: Lever 3: Standards -- Chapter 4: Lever 4: Strategy -- Chapter 5: Lever 5: Self -- Chapter 6: Pulling the Right Levers: Lessons from the Kitchen, Campfires, Penguins, and a Bicycle -- Appendix A: Prioritizing Efforts to Improve Student Learning -- Appendix B: Using the Five Levers to Discern Patterns in Research Findings on Effective Practices -- Appendix C: Examples of School and Classroom Components Associated with Each Lever -- Appendix D: Planning Questions Related to Status Quo, Transactional Change, and Transformational Change -- Appendix E: Three Critical Planning Questions and Sample Scenarios -- Appendix F: Five-Lever Planning Template -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.