| Initiating change is not easy, but sustaining the improvements that result from change can be even harder. McREL's Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement is intended to help school leadership teams — teachers, administrators, and other school leaders — deal with the complexity of change by explaining what it takes to sustain improvement and by providing guidelines for addressing the factors that affect the ability to do so. This series augments McREL's first folio series, Leadership Folio Series: Guiding Comprehensive School Reform, which dealt with designing and implementing comprehensive school reform programs. That series addressed the components required under the federally funded Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Project. Continuing that thread, McREL's newest folio series provides guidance for school leadership teams to help them meet the challenge of sustaining the progress made under Comprehensive School Reform. Topics covered in this folio series include professional development, communication, data-driven decision making, professional learning communities, and resource allocation.
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