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These and other improving schools give us hope. They dispel the myth that some students cannot learn; they inspire us to even greater levels of commitment and action to take on the biggest problems that schools face: cultures rife with resignation, isolation, stagnation, and mistrust; racist and classist attitudes and practices that result in failure to see and serve students who do not look or act like members of the dominant culture; outdated and inexcusable instructional practices; teachers who are not as well prepared as they need to be to teach to rigorous content standards; and ineffective and dangerous uses of student data. With our collective decades of work in school improvement, the authors do not underestimate the grip these problems have on schools’ and educators’ spirits. Yet we have witnessed every one of these seemingly insurmountable barriers begin to fall away when school teams learn to work together and use data and research to identify and tackle the causes of student failure. We know it can be done. We wrote this book to make the tools and the process these improving schools used available to every school seeking to enhance learning and build professional culture. We hope their success will inspire you to use collaborative inquiry to achieve similar or even greater success in your own schools.