ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the overriding issues and themes that leaders must be attentive to in order to keep themselves and others on track. The principal begins to meet with grade level and department teams to discuss the vision and how they can set SMART goals to address mutual concerns. Teachers point out the short-term need to improve curriculum as well as a long-term need to embed more time into the workday to facilitate shared learning and practice. Effective leaders move beyond the rhetoric and look for pockets of support that emerge within the culture. One of the telling signs of leaders who understand this is their willingness to give up the permanent structures and processes that get in the way of the culture once the change process gets rolling. As principals begin to tip the scales in their daily practices it provides an opportunity to address the purpose of their transformation:
