ABSTRACT
“Leadership often involves challenging people to live up to their own words, to close the gap between their espoused values and their actual behavior” (Heifetz and Lensky, 2004, p. 33). With those words, Ronald Heifetz and Marty Lensky capture the essence of the leadership needed to create the high schools of our choice. So much of what high school principals and teacher-leaders do, or need to do, involves creating that cognitive dissonance, that creative dissatisfaction that moves people to confront the discrepancy between the kinds of schools we have and the kinds of schools our children deserve.
