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In this issue of Changing Schools, we show you examples of schools and districts whose innovations go beyond the “everyday” and are moving them toward “best in the world.”

Key Ideas:

• Bryan Goodwin’s article, “Open Secrets of Top Performers,” describes the need for schools to strike a balance between challenge and support, or as Goodwin says, the “yin and yang of success,” when it comes to the improvement process.
• In “The ABCs of Professionalism,” Vicki Urquhart tells the story of how Sedalia Elementary, in Sedalia, Colorado, built a positive new culture that is high performing and focused on continuous improvement.
• Heather Hein profiles Westfield Washington Schools, an Indiana district with a vision of becoming a “world-class learning organization” in “High reliability principles inspire improvement in high-performing district.”
• Jennifer Tuzzeo’s piece, “Innovation Schools Choose the Unbeaten Path,” shows how an innovation school in Denver, Colorado, took bold steps to support its efforts in new ways.
• In “Innovating Where You Are: Lessons from the Khan Academy,” Kirsten Miller writes about what she learned from attending Sal Khan’s lecture at the University of Denver. 

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